The Rise of AI Avatars: Why Startups Are Raising Millions to Build Our Digital Counterparts
The development of artificial intelligence (AI) has resulted in some pretty unsettling things. Deepfakes and job application systems exhibiting gender bias name just a few. But startups around the world are trying to add one more item to this evergrowing list: Creating human-like avatars. These AI manifestations could theoretically be used for various tasks, such […]
AI + Biology = The World’s First “Living Robot”?
Merging artificial intelligence (AI) development and biology is the stuff of science fiction. Or, at least, it used to be — a team of researchers has revealed that they’ve created the first “living robots.” And it could change how we understand AI, approach healthcare, and preserve our environment. A Recipe for New Life? Last month, […]
AI in Medicine: What the Smart Tech Can Tell You About Your “Brain Age”
It may be possible to delay your brain from aging. And no, this isn’t the beginning of a pitch from an after-hours informercial — the science behind this concept is surprisingly real. A recent study in Nature Neuroscience merged three fields to make strides in this research: longevity, neuroscience, and machine learning. The result? An algorithm […]
Food Waste Is a Big Problem – Can AI Solve It?
Approximately one-third of all food produced for human consumption is wasted each year according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. That equates to 1.3 billion tons and carries an annual cost of $1 trillion. If we could salvage this waste, FAO estimates that we’d have enough food to meet the […]
IoT and AI Will Fuel Industry 4.0 Innovation
In the last decade, the industrial sector has been transformed by numerous technological breakthroughs. But these will all pale in comparison to the impact that the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) will have on this field. And when these two technologies are combined, they will usher in a new […]
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 Isn’t Replacing Workers; It’s Picking up the Slack. Here’s How.
This column was originally published on Entrepreneur.com on April 29, 2019. A recent study from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco showed that the U.S. labor market is “at or beyond its full potential.” While that might be good news for the economy, it’s not for the tech companies still out there, searching desperately for qualified talent. Research […]
Is Youth the Secret to Better AI Algorithms?
Artificial intelligence (AI) may be a subset of the well-defined and documented field of computer science, but the theory behind AI programming varies from developer to developer. For example, some view AI as a purely algorithmic true/false approach, while others believe AI should be modeled more closely after the human brain. Alan Turing, the famous […]
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 […]
Can Bold Bets Keep the US Ahead of China in the AI Race?
Research shows that China’s artificial intelligence (AI) development is picking up at an unprecedented pace. Can the United States keep up with ambitious, out-there ideas? On Track to Overtake the US Last June, Apple and Google sponsored an academic contest at the world’s premier computer vision conference. The tech titans wanted to see if algorithms […]