🧠 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.
🎓10 times faster AI- learning with a new processor
Grace is Nvidia's first processor designed specifically for data centers. The company believes that the processor stands for a significant increase in performance. It is supposed to achieve 10 times faster learning of AI models thanks to energy-efficient ARM cores.
🌊 New AI tool can check up on ocean health from space
A new AI tool uses machine learning to gain insight into ocean health by analyzing the ocean’s colour.
🌍 Global Forest Watch can now see through clouds
World Resources Institute’s Global Forest Watch can now see through clouds and thereby track deforestation shortly after it occurs.
👂AI listening device helps rangers deal with illegal logging
The conservationists and rangers of the Sumatran rainforest, home to a very unique ecosystem, have got a nifty helper - AI listening devices.
🦅 Smart camera system saves endangered birds from wind turbines deaths
A camera system saves endangered birds by stopping the wind turbines before the birds hit them - leading to an 82% drop in fatalities.
🍏 A flying robot picks fruits when they are perfectly ripe
An AI-controlled drone with a grab arm should be able to fly around orchards and pick fruit around the clock during the harvest season.
🔬 AI helps dermatologists diagnose skin cancer
An AI is able to analyze images of melanoma and see which ones are dangerous, as good as a dermatologist.
🦈 AI and drones tracks and protects great white sharks
It isn’t easy spotting great white sharks from the water so a team of researchers have taken to the skies - literally.
🚑 AI can increase survival among patients in hospitals
An AI has been trained to recognize signs that patients need intensive care. This means that patients receive the right care earlier than they receive today, which increases their chances of survival.