🧠 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.
🚘 Autonomous vehicles take a step forward
Within a couple of weeks, three companies have announced important steps in the quest for self-driving cars. Tesla launched a beta test of their autonomous technology. Waymo opens up its driverless taxi service to the public in Phoenix, Arizona. And Cruise is doing the same thing in San Francisco.
🎞 AI can automatically describe images for the blind and visually impaired
A new technology allows AI to describe images better than a human can, which can be very helpful for the visually impaired who use computers and mobile phones.
Alexandra Kafka Larsson: My vision is a world where decisions are based on data - with respect to everyone's differences
She is a former intelligence officer, who now works as Chief Information Architect at Combitech. AI and VR are the technologies that will do the most good for humanity in the future, she believes.
🌳 AI finds billions of trees in the Sahara
Automatic counting of trees in deserts gives us better data on how much carbon dioxide is stored in the world's trees and how well planting of trees in and near deserts works.
🌾 An AI analysis shows that we can stop world hunger for two percent of the US defense budget
For $ 14 billion a year, we can make sure that almost everyone in the world can eat their fill.
🚘 Tesla launches full self-driving beta and Waymo offers driverless taxi
Self-driving cars are taking a step forward with Tesla launching a beta test of the significant upgrade of their autopilot and Google's autonomous driving company, Waymo, offering driverless taxi service in Phoenix, Arizona.
🛥 Self-propelled boat ready to cross the Atlantic
Artificial intelligence is about to revolutionize all kinds of vehicles. Self-propelled boats, which navigate using loads of sensors and AI, can be a common sight in the not-too-distant future. Soon the maiden voyage takes place for one of them.
🌟 Robocrop - the robot that will pick cauliflower
In the future, robots will be able to harvest vegetables, fruits and berries. Fieldwork Robotics has developed a prototype that can handle cabbage.
🐟 AI tools should save whales from colliding with ships
By sending a warning to ships traveling in areas where there are whales, the number of whales that die in collisions will be reduced.