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Why people don’t trust artificial intelligence: It’s an ‘explainability’ problem

Jason Bloomberg | 
Despite its promise, the growing field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is experiencing a variety of growing pains. In addition to ...
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What happens if we make AI more humanlike?

Marc Prosser | 
When people interact with each other face to face, emotional and intellectual engagement both heavily influence the interaction. What would ...
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Viewpoint: Everyone needs to feel the benefits of an ‘AI-reliant society’

Dan Robitzski | 
[A]rtificial intelligence technology could actually boost the global economy. If it’s allowed to play a major role, AI will make our ...
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Giving artificial intelligence a ‘memory’ and why that’s so remarkable

Dan Robitzski | 
AI systems’ tendency to forget the things it previously learned upon taking on new information is called catastrophic forgetting. … For ...
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Using AI to predict evolution of cancer tumors could lead to stronger treatments

Jennifer Cockerell | 
Scientists have used artificial intelligence to predict how cancers will progress and evolve, which could help doctors design the most effective treatment for each ...
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Artificial intelligence could predict where earthquake aftershocks will strike

Carolyn Gramling | 
A new artificial intelligence is turning its big brain to mapping earthquake aftershocks. Scientists trained an artificial neural network to ...
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Can artificial intelligence give us a more efficient health care system?

Pratik Kirve | 
To understand the benefits that artificial intelligence can bring to the world of human medicine, consider the case of Ayako ...
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Could artificial intelligence protect the world from humanity’s ‘shortsightedness’?

Dan Robitzki | 
There are fears that tend to come up when people talk about futuristic artificial intelligence — say, one that could ...
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Boosting speed, efficiency of MRI scans with machine learning

Devin Coldewey | 
Magnetic resonance imaging is an invaluable tool in the medical field, but it’s also a slow and cumbersome process. It ...
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Pursuing artificial intelligence that’s free of bias

Dan Robitzski | 
As the problems caused by algorithmic bias have bubbled to the surface, experts have proposed all sorts of solutions on how to make ...
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Quest to fight skin cancer with machine learning may have a diversity problem

Angela Lashbrook | 
As the rates of melanoma for all Americans continue a 30-year climb, dermatologists have begun exploring new technologies to try ...
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Artificial intelligence could manage our health. But can we trust it?

W. Nicholson Price II | 
In May, [startup Beta Bionics] received Food and Drug Administration approval to start clinical trials on what it calls a “bionic pancreas ...
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3 ways artificial intelligence is tackling cancer

Jacqueline Detwiler | 
Case Study 1: The Sharing Project … [Jinghui Zhang wondered] how much faster cancer research could move if data sets ...
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Can we fine-tune drug doses with the help of artificial intelligence?

Kristen Houser | 
Patients with glioblastoma, a malignant tumor in the brain or spinal cord, typically live no more than five years after ...
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What’s the line between life and brain death? Artificial intelligence offers hope of digital simulation

Philip Jaekl | 
Since the invention of bypass machines in the 1950s, which can artificially maintain circulation and respiration, death has come to ...
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Matching the experts: New AI system proves adept at diagnosing eye problems

Samuel Gibbs | 
A new machine-learning system is as good as the best human experts at detecting eye problems and referring patients for ...
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Google hopes to fix the racial bias problem in artificial intelligence through tech summer camps

Ashley Wong | 
Oakland-based nonprofit AI4All [will] expand its outreach to young underrepresented minorities and women with a $1 million grant from Google.org, the technology ...
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Fibromyalgia is a disease that eludes diagnosis: Can artificial intelligence change that?

Olivia Goldhill | 
There’s no tissue damage that explains the pain fibromyalgia patients experience all over their body, and contemporary medicine struggles to ...
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Can artificial intelligence point out employee weaknesses, training needs?

Elizabeth Woyke | 
Here’s the conundrum with corporate online learning: there are so many classes available from sites like Coursera, edX, and Udacity that companies ...
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5 things to fear from artificial intelligence in the future

Ryan Browne | 
CNBC spoke with some experts to see what they think are the five scariest potential future scenarios for AI. A common ...
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Viewpoint: Media’s misrepresentation of artificial intelligence could derail promising technology

Oscar Schwartz | 
In June of [2017], five researchers at Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence Research unit published an article showing how bots can simulate ...
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Would you watch a movie written and animated by artificial intelligence?

Dan Robitzski | 
The next time you sit down to watch a movie, the algorithm behind your streaming service might recommend a blockbuster ...
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Machines that decide ‘who lives and who dies’? AI community pledges never to build them

Dell Cameron | 
Hundreds of companies and thousands of individuals, many of them researchers and engineers prominent in the fields of robotics and ...
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Viewpoint: Stop worrying about intelligent robots taking all the jobs

Robert Atkinson | 
The coming artificial intelligence revoloution will inevitably change the way the European workforce operates. How should policymakers prepare? ...
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‘Algorithmic death spiral’: The failing mental health of our machines

Thomas Hills | 
Is my car hallucinating? Is the algorithm that runs the police surveillance system in my city paranoid? Marvin the android ...
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Transhumanism could push human evolution into hyperdrive. Should we embrace it?

David Trippett | 
Some people believe that we can enhance human life through embracing biotechnology and genetic engineering, but should we? ...
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Fertility quest: How technology has fueled quantum leaps

Carol Lynn Curchoe | 
Nanotech, artificial intelligence, wearables and biological engineering are among the new high tech ways to knock you up, stop your ...
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