AI: The Answer to Road Rage?
When we think of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled cars, most of us jump straight to self-driving cars that take away the most difficult parts of driving: the anxiety, the constant attention required, and avoiding a collision. But an AI application in the form of a road rage chatbot may end up having the most profound effect […]
Can Surveillance Tech Help Schools Combat COVID-19?
There has been a lot of debate on whether schools should open and whether children contribute to the spread of the coronavirus. Some schools aren’t taking any chances; they’ve decided to stay remote in spite of the fall season starting. But others are employing a novel approach to this conundrum. Fayette County Public Schools (FCPS) […]
How AI Is Impacting Wealth Management
The financial industry is in the midst of unprecedented change. Many big banks and entrenched institutions are directing their IT budgets towards the support of legacy systems written in COBOL. But customers clearly want something else: convenient, more efficient digital banking experiences. This is opening up a disruption opportunity for young FinTech startups that are […]
Facebook’s Smart Home Robots: The Next Step in IoT?
Smart homes are getting more helpful with the addition of new technologies and constantly improving AI assistants. We can now use our voice to control our lights, music, car charging, door locks, and much more. We can even have a set type of APIs connected together to form a voice-enabled assistant that informs us about […]
Thanks to AI, Cars May Soon Be Able to Sense Your Emotions
Pretend you’re on your daily work commute. Stuck in the stop-and-go traffic on your local highway, you start getting a little nervous — you have a big presentation today at your job, and it could be the difference between a promotion and staying in the same role for yet another year. As you ponder this […]
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 […]
A Beginner’s Guide to Artificial Neural Networks – Part 2
Over the last decade, artificial intelligence (AI) development has been moving at the speed of light. As a result, chatbots, self-driving cars, and deepfakes have now all become viable. Artificial neural networks are behind many of these advancements. Welcome to the second part of our special series on artificial neural networks! In our first chapter, […]
Affordable, Fast, and Personalized: The Future of AI-Fueled Drug Discovery
Drug discovery is a ruthless field in which most drugs take almost a decade to develop and, even then, they can reach the last stage of experimentation only to falter. About 90% of all drug possibilities fail. Drug research can cost anywhere from $2.5 billion to $12 billion per drug. With this low success ratio […]
A Beginner’s Guide to Artificial Neural Networks – Part 1
The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) development has made neural networks more ubiquitous than ever before. Even if you don’t work in data science or software engineering, you encounter this innovation regularly. Whether it’s chatbots, e-commerce platforms, personal finance, or medical imaging, artificial neural networks are now everywhere. But what exactly is an artificial […]
Clearview AI: A Look at the Frightening Reality of Facial Recognition
Would you feel comfortable if a stranger could snap your picture and identify you with an app? The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) has yielded both amazing and terrifying technological capabilities. And a mobile app from a startup known as Clearview AI precariously straddles the line between these two sides. Using facial recognition, Clearview […]