artificial intelligence
Why people don’t trust artificial intelligence: It’s an ‘explainability’ problem
Despite its promise, the growing field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is experiencing a variety of growing pains. In addition to ...
What happens if we make AI more humanlike?
When people interact with each other face to face, emotional and intellectual engagement both heavily influence the interaction. What would ...
Viewpoint: Everyone needs to feel the benefits of an ‘AI-reliant society’
[A]rtificial intelligence technology could actually boost the global economy. If it’s allowed to play a major role, AI will make our ...
Giving artificial intelligence a ‘memory’ and why that’s so remarkable
AI systems’ tendency to forget the things it previously learned upon taking on new information is called catastrophic forgetting. … For ...
Using AI to predict evolution of cancer tumors could lead to stronger treatments
Scientists have used artificial intelligence to predict how cancers will progress and evolve, which could help doctors design the most effective treatment for each ...
Artificial intelligence could predict where earthquake aftershocks will strike
A new artificial intelligence is turning its big brain to mapping earthquake aftershocks. Scientists trained an artificial neural network to ...
Can artificial intelligence give us a more efficient health care system?
To understand the benefits that artificial intelligence can bring to the world of human medicine, consider the case of Ayako ...
Could artificial intelligence protect the world from humanity’s ‘shortsightedness’?
There are fears that tend to come up when people talk about futuristic artificial intelligence — say, one that could ...
Boosting speed, efficiency of MRI scans with machine learning
Magnetic resonance imaging is an invaluable tool in the medical field, but it’s also a slow and cumbersome process. It ...
Pursuing artificial intelligence that’s free of bias
As the problems caused by algorithmic bias have bubbled to the surface, experts have proposed all sorts of solutions on how to make ...
Quest to fight skin cancer with machine learning may have a diversity problem
As the rates of melanoma for all Americans continue a 30-year climb, dermatologists have begun exploring new technologies to try ...
Artificial intelligence could manage our health. But can we trust it?
In May, [startup Beta Bionics] received Food and Drug Administration approval to start clinical trials on what it calls a “bionic pancreas ...
3 ways artificial intelligence is tackling cancer
Case Study 1: The Sharing Project … [Jinghui Zhang wondered] how much faster cancer research could move if data sets ...
Can we fine-tune drug doses with the help of artificial intelligence?
Patients with glioblastoma, a malignant tumor in the brain or spinal cord, typically live no more than five years after ...
What’s the line between life and brain death? Artificial intelligence offers hope of digital simulation
Since the invention of bypass machines in the 1950s, which can artificially maintain circulation and respiration, death has come to ...
Matching the experts: New AI system proves adept at diagnosing eye problems
A new machine-learning system is as good as the best human experts at detecting eye problems and referring patients for ...
Google hopes to fix the racial bias problem in artificial intelligence through tech summer camps
Oakland-based nonprofit AI4All [will] expand its outreach to young underrepresented minorities and women with a $1 million grant from Google.org, the technology ...
Fibromyalgia is a disease that eludes diagnosis: Can artificial intelligence change that?
There’s no tissue damage that explains the pain fibromyalgia patients experience all over their body, and contemporary medicine struggles to ...
Can artificial intelligence point out employee weaknesses, training needs?
Here’s the conundrum with corporate online learning: there are so many classes available from sites like Coursera, edX, and Udacity that companies ...
5 things to fear from artificial intelligence in the future
CNBC spoke with some experts to see what they think are the five scariest potential future scenarios for AI. A common ...
Viewpoint: Media’s misrepresentation of artificial intelligence could derail promising technology
In June of [2017], five researchers at Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence Research unit published an article showing how bots can simulate ...
Would you watch a movie written and animated by artificial intelligence?
The next time you sit down to watch a movie, the algorithm behind your streaming service might recommend a blockbuster ...
Machines that decide ‘who lives and who dies’? AI community pledges never to build them
Hundreds of companies and thousands of individuals, many of them researchers and engineers prominent in the fields of robotics and ...
Viewpoint: Stop worrying about intelligent robots taking all the jobs
The coming artificial intelligence revoloution will inevitably change the way the European workforce operates. How should policymakers prepare? ...
‘Algorithmic death spiral’: The failing mental health of our machines
Is my car hallucinating? Is the algorithm that runs the police surveillance system in my city paranoid? Marvin the android ...
Transhumanism could push human evolution into hyperdrive. Should we embrace it?
Some people believe that we can enhance human life through embracing biotechnology and genetic engineering, but should we? ...
Fertility quest: How technology has fueled quantum leaps
Nanotech, artificial intelligence, wearables and biological engineering are among the new high tech ways to knock you up, stop your ...