🧠 Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) helps doctors make better diagnoses, scientists create new materials, farmers grow crops more effectively and all of us driving cars - and millions of other applications. This topic also covers subsets of AI such as machine learning (ML), deep learning and neural networks.
💡 Optimist’s Edge: Will the Tesla Bot replace all physical human labor?
Robots that understand and can interact with the surrounding environment will be able to replace all physical human labor, which will lead to a dramatic expansion of the world economy.
🪸 AI reveals "singing" coral reefs
A team of researchers from University of Exeter is creating an algorithm that tracks the health of coral reefs by understanding their “song”.
💡 Optimist’s Edge: No language barrier
Humanity has been working on machine translation for hundreds of years, but in the last ten years, progress has been exponential. We are close to a world with perfect machine translations of texts, removing a big language barrier for the world.
🐢 App prevents illegal trade with sea turtles
In order to help the hawksbill sea turtle, scientists have created an app called SEE Shell which uses AI to tell if a piece of “tortoiseshell” is real or not.
🏁 The race that gets more people into machine learning
There is great hype around machine learning, but many also see it as abstract and difficult. Here is the race that wants to change that.
🤰 AI able to prevent miscarriage
An AI can perform lightning-fast analyzes of ultrasound images to provide physicians with information about complications that could lead to miscarriage or complications.
📜 Deep Minds AI helps us read ancient texts
An AI can guess which words have disappeared in ancient texts and also indicate where and when the text was written.
👨⚕️ AI helps doctors work better
An AI can help pathologists go through images of cell samples faster to find cancer cells, and doctors also help the AI to become better at analyzing the images.
🧠 Deepmind has trained an AI to control fusion
An AI has learned to adjust the plasma magnets in a fusion reactor. The AI was also able to shape the plasma, which increases both safety and efficiency.