5 Healthcare Technologies That Are Helping Us Fight COVID-19 — Part 2
As we start vaccinating frontline workers and at-risk populations across the world, it seems that the end is in sight for the COVID-19 pandemic. We have a multitude of technologies, old and new, to thank for helping humanity make it through this crisis. From artificial intelligence (AI) applications to UV light, we’ll discuss five more […]
Does AI’s Full Potential Depend on a Physical Body?
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been expanding its skillset and improving its performance in a variety of industries. It’s become an integrated part of image processing and identification, healthcare diagnosing, automatic translation, autonomous cars, and speech analysis. But these advancements beg the question: when will AI reach its full potential? When it’s infiltrated every part of […]
Healthcare: When AI Biases Become Dangerous
Algorithms have done really well when they’re looking at a greyscale radiologic image that’s not connected to skin color. But more and more evidence points to the inherent biases that algorithms operate on. These biases are magnified when the algorithm is used in healthcare, where a patient’s life and livelihood could be at stake based […]
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 […]
Do You Trust AI Doctors?
Emerging technologies like IoT, artificial intelligence (AI), and wearables are changing the patient and provider experience for the better. Ever since AI applications, like identifying cancer from medical images or predicting disease from a patient’s medical history, were introduced to healthcare, we’ve seen AI routinely match or beat providers’ performance. So where do we draw […]
What’s an Algorithm? A Look at the Magic Behind Data-Driven Decisions
The term “algorithm” in computing is inescapable. Found everywhere, it can mean an artificial intelligence (AI) application used in the cloud, for quantum computing, in self-driving cars, on social media, or a host of other technologies. Like programming languages, algorithms are a set of instructions for a computer. Unlike programming languages which dole out very […]
This AI Rates Attractiveness… For Science?
A new artificial intelligence (AI) application from a team of researchers in the European Union (EU), called “How Normal Am I?”, is shaking up a lot of people’s self-confidence today. Sure, not everyone is as photogenic as the models in the above image, but we’re all beautiful in our own unique way, right? This AI […]
AI Has Solved the 50-Year-Old Problem of Protein Folding
Many remember DeepMind as the parent company of the artificial intelligence (AI) application AlphaGo, the first program in the world to beat a professional Go player in October of 2015. Since then, the company has been working on several different research projects, including a hyper-ambitious one aimed at predicting how proteins will fold. Protein folding […]
AI & Alcohol: How Machine Learning Helped Make Hops-Free Beer
The worlds of artificial intelligence (AI) and biology are becoming increasingly intertwined. We’ve seen some pretty remarkable things grow out of synthetic biology: lab-grown meat, recyclable biofuel, and super-powered yeast cells that create life-saving drugs like insulin. A subfield of biology, synthetic biology, often gets down and dirty with genomics and gene editing to develop […]
How Researchers Are Preparing for the AI-Fueled Deepfake Deluge
Artificial intelligence (AI) is getting better — after all, it continuously trains itself to meet and exceed expectations — but could it be getting too good? AI applications are being used to detect and warn officials and journalists about AI-generated videos called “deepfake”. These videos show a prominent political leader or celebrity saying and doing things […]