🧠 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.
🔭 First ever exoplanet discovery made by artificial intelligence
Astronomers applied a machine learning algorithm to validate the presence of exoplanets on telescope images, resulting in 50 new confirmed discoveries.
🤖 Why technology helps politicians make better decisions – and eventually replaces them
It's time to release the potential in new technologies and make more democratic and rational decisions than ever before, writes Anna Rennéus Guthrie.
🎸 New technology allows musicians to jam at a distance
A new operating system provides such a low delay over network connections that musicians can play together in real time remotely.
🔬 Faster cancer diagnoses with AI microscope
A microscope equipped with AR and AI should relieve doctors by making a quick initial cancer diagnosis.
🖥 AI helps us detect Alzheimer's earlier
Detecting Alzheimer's at an early stage can give us better medicines for the disease in the future.
🥋 AI translates speech into writing with greater accuracy than people
When will AI be smarter than humans, if ever? In any case, this is an area where AI has taken the lead.
🚘 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.