🧠 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.
🌳 CTrees: A platform that calculates the carbon in every tree on Earth
A new startup has designed a platform that uses artificial intelligence to track exactly how much carbon every tree on the earth stores. This can help scientists determine the extent to which trees are helping the planet.
🔥 AI can halve the risk of forest fires
An AI can show where the risk of forest fires is greatest and which strategies work best to prevent the fires.
🚝 An automatic robot can give us better maintenance of the railway
Researchers have produced a prototype of a robot that independently detects and repairs damage to the rails.
💡 Optimist's Edge: Let AI find the talents for you
With the help of artificial intelligence, recruitment becomes less costly, accuracy is higher, it's more skills-based and there is less risk of prejudices leading to incorrect recruitment.
🪸 AI is used to save coral reefs
A group of islanders in the South Pacific is using AI to save coral reefs.
🧠 In just 20 years artificial intelligence could dramatically reshape our world
The imagination of Kai-Fu Lee, former president of Google China, takes us into a futuristic world made up of virtual teachers, augmented cities, increased longevity, immersive virtual worlds, as well as vital new issues to address.
💡 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.