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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
4 AI Trends We’ll See in 2021
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications were taking 2020 by storm when the COVID-19 pandemic struck. Although this crisis has changed how we do business and how we shop, the impact of AI and ML hasn’t diminished. In actuality, algorithms and smart machines have been saving lives and preventing the spread of the […]
Will COVID-19 Spur the Shift to AI-First Cybersecurity?
When the COVID-19 pandemic caused the workforce to start working from home, cybersecurity became a big challenge for many companies. The worldwide shift to remote work had major implications for security in enterprises. At many of these enterprises, their security solutions were outdated, patched-up, and cheap. Millions of network connections became dangerously vulnerable almost overnight. […]
AI and Robotics Are Revolutionizing Chemical Research
A newly-developed chemical research system has the potential to change the future of drug discovery. The new platform, which uses machine learning (ML) to design artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and automate molecule production over the cloud without human intervention, was announced at an opportune time: We’re fighting the coronavirus by trying to develop a vaccine […]