Aug 12, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Astronomy, Featured
Astronomers have applied artificial intelligence (AI) to ultra-wide field-of-view images of the distant Universe captured by the Subaru Telescope, and have achieved a very high accuracy for finding and classifying spiral galaxies in those images. This technique, in...
Aug 12, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles, Featured
Automakers Volkswagen, Ford, and General Motors are betting billions that autonomous driving will get us moving again. The shock of losing air travel and public transportation has proven one sector of the American workforce to be especially resilient: the road...
Aug 6, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
THERE ARE MANY photos of Tom Hanks, but none like the images of the leading everyman shown at the Black Hat computer security conference Wednesday: They were made by machine-learning algorithms, not a camera. Philip Tully, a data scientist at security...
Aug 6, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence
The National Institutes of Health has launched the Medical Imaging and Data Resource Center (MIDRC), an ambitious effort that will harness the power of artificial intelligence and medical imaging to fight COVID-19. The multi-institutional collaboration, led by the...
Aug 6, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence
From targeted phishing campaigns to new stalking methods: there are plenty of ways that artificial intelligence could be used to cause harm if it fell into the wrong hands. A team of researchers decided to rank the potential criminal applications that AI will have in...
Aug 6, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Privacy
Ubiquitous facial recognition is a serious threat to privacy. The idea that the photos we share are being collected by companies to train algorithms that are sold commercially is worrying. Anyone can buy these tools, snap a photo of a stranger, and find out who they...
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