5 Design Considerations for Your Next mHealth App
Today, the healthcare industry is undergoing a major shift in how health-related services are consumed. mHealth – or mobile health – refers to the use of mobile devices such as mobile phones, tablets, wearables or other electronics to provide health-related services. mHealth offers a wide variety of value from connecting patients and healthcare providers, providing […]
Adversarial Machine Learning: A Looming Threat to AI Security
Machine learning is great for niched-down problems that require an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to pay attention to very specific details. For that reason, it’s becoming a very popular technology. But machine learning applications used in essential fields like healthcare, transportation, and finance carry a lot of responsibility. If one of these algorithms were to […]
A Beginner’s Guide to Artificial Neural Networks – Part 3
Welcome to the third part of our special series on artificial neural networks! These computing systems have spurred numerous innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) development over the last decade. In our previous post, we explored how artificial neural networks function and learn. Did you miss it? Check it out here. For this final entry of […]
Machine Learning Can’t Fix Algorithmic Bias — but Humans Can
Original article featured in Quartz at Work. The fact that tech has a long way to go when it comes to its lack of diversity shouldn’t be news to anyone at this point. The technology sector is the third biggest contributor to the US economy. And the people behind it—from founders to hiring managers to […]
Your Brief Guide to Natural Language Processing (Part 2)
Once an obscure subset of artificial intelligence (AI) development, natural language processing (NLP) is now a vital part of modern life. Whether it’s digital voice assistants, translation apps, word processors, or even customer service calls, you probably encounter this technology in your everyday activities much more frequently than you presume. Welcome to our brief guide […]
Can AI’s Racial & Gender Bias Problem Be Solved?
Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are complex packets of code that strive to learn on given training data. But when this training data is flawed, not well-rounded, or biased, the algorithm quickly spirals into discrimination too. For women and minorities, these systemic AI issues can quickly become harmful. Where Does Bias Come From? Bias in AI […]
A New AI Milestone: Passing an 8th Grade Science Exam
In 2015, 700 artificial intelligence (AI) developers competed to win $80,000 in prize money. Their objective? To build an AI system capable of passing an eighth-grade science exam. Unfortunately, all submitted systems failed to accomplish this, with the best contender answering only 60% of questions on the test correctly. At the time, AI was no […]
What Does the Future of Machine Learning Look Like?
Machine learning (ML), at its core, is a subset of artificial intelligence (AI). And it’s responsible for many of the AI advancements we have before us today. But it’s not a new field by any means; it first became a topic of research and discussion in the 1950s. Back in the day, ML used to […]
How AI Bias Actually Occurs (and Why It’s Difficult to Fix)
Today, the overwhelming majority of artificial intelligence (AI) applications are made possible through deep learning. This subset of machine learning relies on the process of applying deep neural network architectures to make decisions or solve problems. Basically, multiple algorithm layers are applied to analyze a problem and produce a “probability vector,” which might say something […]
Alibaba Is Doubling Down on AI Chips and Quantum Computing
At Alibaba’s 2018 computing conference, the company showed off their Tmall app, an AI mobile app developed to identify the variations between different kinds of tea leaves and their roasting quality level. While this use case was subtle, it foreshadowed an announcement later on in the four-day conference. Alibaba revealed its plans to invest in and […]