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Human Oversight Needed in AI
According to ZD Net, artificial intelligence is still in need of human oversight.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning models can work spectacularly -- until they don't. Then they tend to fail spectacularly. That's the lesson drawn from the COVID-19 crisis, as reported in MIT Technology Review.
Read more...AI Helps Sort Through Covid-19 Data
Natural language processing is being used by a team of researchers to help look through the massive amounts of data available on Covid-19, reports SciTechDaily.
A team of materials scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) – scientists who normally spend their time researching things like high-performance materials for thermoelectrics or battery cathodes – have built a text-mining tool in record time to help the global scientific community synthesize the mountain of scientific literature on COVID-19 being generated every day.
Read more...AI Can't Stop Misinformation
Artificial intelligence isn’t capable of weeding out misinformation on the internet, reports The Hill.
More than 3 billion people–around 50 percent of the world’s population–engage with and post content online. Some of that content is misleading and potentially harmful, whether by design or as a side effect of its spread and manipulation.
Read more...Teaching AI Common Sense
According to Wired, the creator of the Watson computer is teaching artificial intelligence common sense.
David Ferrucci, the man who built IBM’s Jeopardy!-playing machine, Watson, is explaining a children’s story to his new creation.
Read more...AI Tackles Covid-19
According to Tech Republic, artificial intelligence is helping to track the spread of Covid-19.
As the coronavirus continues to spread around the globe, we've seen a surge in the use of cutting edge technologies to track and control the pandemic, especially artificial intelligence. It seems like only a distant memory when artificial intelligence (AI) was being discussed as an emergent "existential threat" to humanity.
Read more...Is Artificial Intelligence Already Conscious
According to TNW, it is possible that artificial intelligence is already “conscious”.
The ultimate goal of most high-level AI research is the development of a general artificial intelligence (GAI). In essence, what we want is a synthetic mind that could function the same as a human were it placed into a physical vessel of similar capability.
Read more...Is AI Ready to Battle Covid
Is the current artificial intelligence trustworthy enough to effectively help us battle Covid-19, reports the World Economic Forum.
Imagine a hypothetical scenario: a head of state meets with the founders of a health-tech startup that claims to have designed an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered application that can predict which COVID-19 patients are more at risk of developing severe respiratory diseases. The stakes are high from both a health and an economic perspective.
Read more...Johns Hopkins Engineering Launches Online Artificial Intelligence Graduate Program
Johns Hopkins Engineering has launched one of the first fully online artificial intelligence (AI) master’s and certificate programs in the nation. Offered through the Whiting School of Engineering’s Engineering for Professionals program, the new program’s advanced curriculum comprehensively addresses all aspects of artificial intelligence, preparing practicing scientists and engineers to design and create the essential AI-driven technology of the future.
Read more...Speeding up Machine Learning
According to the Jerusalem Post, researchers at Bar-Ilan University are working on a way to speed up machine learning.
The concept of artificial intelligence started developing decades ago from the idea of giving machines a “human brain.” The connection between them was crucial, but only on a philosophical level as computers became more advanced and very little of their way of functioning could be seen as mirroring a human mind.
Read more...AI Leaves Big Carbon Footprint
In addition to ethical concerns about artificial intelligence it is also not good for the environment, reports MIT News.
Artificial intelligence has become a focus of certain ethical concerns, but it also has some major sustainability issues.
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