AI Is Making Smart Farms a Reality
With an ever-increasing number of mouths to feed and looming environmental challenges, the farming industry will need to adapt to the times if it is to succeed at supplying the world with resources. Fortunately, artificial intelligence (AI) offers a number of data-driven solutions to help the agricultural sector improve efficiency and productivity. Constraints Can Yield […]
Machine Learning in Medicine: The Benefits & Challenges
Healthcare’s transformation at the hands of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) will undoubtedly bring benefits to physicians and patients. But it’s not all rainbows and sunshine in MedTech; AI and ML also bring a variety of challenges, considerations, and consequences with their use. And before we can confidently apply ML to every healthcare […]
DeepMind Founders and Other AI Leaders Pledge to Not Develop Lethal Weapon Systems
A few days ago, London-based developer DeepMind (an Alphabet company) and thousands of other tech leaders in artificial intelligence (AI) signed a pledge vowing to never develop any “lethal autonomous weapon.” The group, which included Elon Musk, Skype founder Jaan Tallinn, and AI researchers Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, and Jürgen Schmidhuber, wrote in their letter that “We […]
Thousands of AI Researchers Are Boycotting the New Nature Journal
When did science become so political? Between applying for government grants for research, paying journals so university students can read published science papers, and inter-departmental politics surrounding tenure, there is no shortage of politics in scientific research. Nature is the world’s most cited journal. The London-based publishing group’s addition of machine learning (ML) into their line-up of more than […]