Artificial intelligence can be used to predict loneliness in older adults, reports Medical Express. 

For the past couple of decades, there has been a loneliness pandemic, marked by rising rates of suicides and opioid use, lost productivity, increased health care costs and rising mortality. The COVID-19 pandemic, with its associated social distancing and lockdowns, have only made things worse, say experts. 

Artificial intelligence is training on text and images and may soon be able to caption pictures correctly, reports on MIT Technology Review. 

Of all the AI models in the world, OpenAI’s GPT-3 has most captured the public’s imagination. It can spew poems, short stories, and songs with little prompting, and has been demonstrated to fool people into thinking its outputs were written by a human. But its eloquence is more of a parlor trick, not to be confused with real intelligence.

Organizations need to convince the public that artificial intelligence is safe, reports Information Week. 

Security and privacy concerns are the top barriers to adoption of artificial intelligence, and for good reason. Both benign and malicious actors can threaten the performance, fairness, security and privacy of AI models and data.

Artificial intelligence could help peer review research, reports Medical Express. 

As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the world, researchers have published hundreds of papers each week reporting their findings—many of which have not undergone a thorough peer review process to gauge their reliability.