Can This AI Pioneer Make Algorithms Understand Cause and Effect?
Last March, Yoshua Bengio won the Turing Award with Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun. Known as the “Nobel Prize of computing,” the Turing Award is regarded as the highest honor in computer science. The three researchers received this prestigious accolade for their contributions to deep learning, a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) development that’s largely […]
AI in Healthcare: The Opportunities & Challenges Ahead — Part 2
The world of healthcare is highly specialized; providers must acquire specific knowledge and expertise in a subset of medicine to excel in their chosen specialty. In contrast, the world of artificial intelligence (AI) development often takes a more holistic approach. Although AI can be focused on one area, it can find patterns and abnormalities from […]
Are We in the Era of AI-Powered Cyber-Warfare?
For almost the entirety of its relatively short history, the US has been engaged in one conflict or another. Over the past few decades, technology and science have increasingly been used in these battles. As a result, threats can come in many shapes and sizes today. But our biggest undeclared war right now doesn’t involve […]
How AI Can Give Healthcare an Overhaul
When it comes to healthcare, few emerging technologies have garnered as much hype as the development of artificial intelligence (AI). And for good reason — AI will undoubtedly disrupt medicine. But whether that’s for better or for worse depends on numerous factors. On one hand, AI could tap into the immense amounts of data and […]
Can Machine Learning Solve Climate Change?
Climate change is the most pressing problem of our era. And how we approach solving it will define how humanity will survive on earth. This matter has caused many innovative thinkers to envision what a viable, sustainable future looks like. Perhaps electricity generated by renewable means will completely replace fossil fuels in transportation. Maybe we’ll […]
AI in 2019: Hardware, Automation, and High Stakes Politics
Do you know what the state of artificial intelligence (AI) development is in 2019? In a new report, angel investor Ian Hogarth and RAAIS and Air Street Capital founder Nathan Benaich answer this question by taking a deep dive into recent breakthroughs in the technology and new areas of application. The 136-slide work of research […]
AI in 2019: Advancements in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and More
Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing at a rapid-fire pace. This breakneck speed makes it hard to keep track of and evaluate every important AI development. To solve this problem, angel investor Ian Hogarth and RAAIS and Air Street Capital founder Nathan Benaich have put together the State of AI Report 2019. In this recently published […]
AI and Machine Learning: What’s the Difference?
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are both big buzzwords in the tech industry. But they’re often erroneously used interchangeably. At its core, AI comes from the field of computer science. On the other hand, machine learning is actually a subset of AI. So while the two subjects are inherently related, they are certainly not […]
AI in Art: A Look at the Tech’s Impact on Creativity
For many experts, artificial intelligence (AI) that can complete creative and abstract work such as writing, composing music, and painting is the holy grail for the technology. But new creative AI applications are already pushing the frontier of what we know to be possible. “AI artists” are prevalent these days, and they’re actually quite good […]
Combining Wearables and AI Can Bring Some Big Benefits to Healthcare
Wearables are a low-risk method to collect high-quality patient data around the clock. When you add artificial intelligence (AI) into the mix, you open up opportunities for smarter analysis, more actionable insights, and better results. In England, patients leaving a group of hospitals in the southeast are receiving their own wireless, connected armbands. These wearables […]