How Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Make Babies
In the past year, we’ve seen healthcare and medicine blossom into more technologically-informed fields. Now, a woman-founded Israeli startup has created an artificial intelligence (AI) application that can be used to increase the chances of successful in-vitro fertilization (IVF). IVF was first used to conceive a baby in 1978 in the U.K., and it’s become […]
Can AI Predict Mental Illness?
Artificial intelligence (AI) may one day be able to detect mental illness by reading just a few of your private messages or public posts. In early December, a group of researchers used Facebook data to predict psychiatric illnesses. The data included personal messages sent up to 18 months before an official diagnosis in 223 volunteers. […]
Exploring the Eerie World of AI-Generated Deepfake Music
“New” music generated by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) development and research company, uses data from millions of songs to create tunes with existing voices and sounds. For example, a song by Frank Sinatra contains the lyrics “It’s Christmas time! It’s hot tub time!” It sounds like him, and the accompanying music sounds like his […]
How AI Algorithms Are Taking Over Employee Management
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a major part of our daily lives. We interact with algorithms on social media, we get emails and ads depending on our purchases and browsing behavior, and we even get matched with a driver for Uber or Lyft through this smart technology. Though, whether or not algorithms are good for […]
Can Surveillance Tech Help Schools Combat COVID-19?
There has been a lot of debate on whether schools should open and whether children contribute to the spread of the coronavirus. Some schools aren’t taking any chances; they’ve decided to stay remote in spite of the fall season starting. But others are employing a novel approach to this conundrum. Fayette County Public Schools (FCPS) […]
How AI Is Impacting Wealth Management
The financial industry is in the midst of unprecedented change. Many big banks and entrenched institutions are directing their IT budgets towards the support of legacy systems written in COBOL. But customers clearly want something else: convenient, more efficient digital banking experiences. This is opening up a disruption opportunity for young FinTech startups that are […]
Does Facial Recognition Mean the End of Anonymous Protest?
Ever since the Minneapolis protests began a few weeks ago, the rest of the country and the entire world have joined in to support the #BlackLivesMatter movement and protest the police brutality against George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless other victims of color. But as we know with the Hong Kong protests, police […]
COVID-19 Is Changing Our Behavior – and Messing Up Machine Learning Models
When the U.S. began locking down to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Amazon, grocery stores, and wholesale stores like Costco saw an enormous uptick in consumers wanting to buy a few select items. On Amazon, during the week of April 12th to 18th, the top ten search queries were face masks and N95 masks, […]
How AI Can Help Hospitals Manage Resources During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Governments and medical facilities around the world are being inundated by an influx of COVID-19 patients. Under these overwhelming circumstances, it’s imperative that these organizations manage their resources carefully; it’s the only way to ensure that people with the highest health risks are prioritized and that the spread of the novel coronavirus slows down. Luckily, […]
How AI Is Helping Humanity Tackle the Coronavirus Crisis
Like any tool, technology can be used for both good and bad. And sometimes, that bad is inadvertent; tech in the form of airplanes helped expedite the spread of the coronavirus around the world. But fortunately, technology will also aid in stopping this pandemic crisis. A few weeks ago, we wrote about how the San […]