🧠 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.
🚗 New AI tool helps self-driving cars navigate on snowy roads
By training an AI on sensor data researchers hopes to create an AI that can monitor a car in snowy conditions.
🎓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.