🧠 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.

Rich Spuller 3 min read

❤️ World's first A.I. can predict heart attacks or strokes better than a doctor

Researchers said it's the first time blood flow scans, which reveal problems with the heart, have been read by a computer.

Mathias Sundin 10 min read

The self-driving future started with a competition nobody won

The self-driving revolution started with this car and a competition in the desert that nobody won. Some people now claim that nothing has happened in autonomous driving. They are about to be disrupted.

Mathias Sundin 1 min read

👩‍⚕️ Google AI as good as doctors to identify breast cancer, and will soon be better

Googles Deepmind has developed an AI that helps identify cancer in brest x-rays, mammography. The AI is already as good as, in one test, and better than human doctors, in another test.

Mathias Sundin 1 min read

🐯 AI could be a gamechanger for the conservation of animals

Automated cameras that snap a picture whenever an animal walks by, have become an indispensable tool for wildlife biologists. But going through and looking at all the pictures is long and tedious work. Now an AI will do that work instead.

Mathias Sundin 1 min read

👩‍💻 A new artificial intelligence can predict epileptic seizures one hour ahead of time with 99.6% accuracy

The system will give people suffering from epilepsy warning that a seizure is imminent, enabling them to take medication—or alert a friend, relative or medical professional.

Mathias Sundin 1 min read

👩‍⚕️ An AI helps diagnose cervical cancer faster

Microsoft and SRL Diagnostics have developed an AI tool that helps detect cervical cancer.

Rich Spuller 1 min read

A.I. Allowed a Paralyzed Person to 'Handwrite' Using His Mind

Imagine scribbling down some notes using your mind, and  A.I. interprets those thoughts into writing. Brain-computer interfaces allow people to control computer inputs with their minds. While the technology is in its very early stages, it is showing great promise.  Especially for paralyzed people. People who are fully paralyzed,

Rich Spuller 1 min read

The Mayflower Autonomous Ship – Retracing a 400-Year old Voyage, with A.I.

🚢  A fully autonomous ship will soon retrace the path of a 400-year-old journey from the United Kingdom to the United States. The new AI-updated version of the Mayflower [https://interestingengineering.com/a-fully-autonomous-ship-will-set-sail-across-the-atlantic-ocean] , with zero passengers and crew members, will take approximately two weeks to cross the Atlantic. As the BBC

Rich Spuller 1 min read

New AI Systems Are Here to Personalize Learning

The narratives about automation and its impact on jobs go from urgent [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/06/automation-destroy-millions-jobs-change] to hopeful [https://www.vox.com/a/new-economy-future/manual-labor-luxury-good] and everything in between. Regardless where you land, it’s hard to argue against the idea that technologies like AI