MIT researchers develop an AI model that can detect future lung cancer risk
Deep-learning model takes a personalized approach to assessing each patient’s risk of lung cancer based on CT scans. Alex Ouyang | Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health Publication Date: January 20, 2023 The name Sybil has its origins in…
AI and Machine Learning Salaries Drop
But average U.S. tech salaries climbed nearly 7 percent in 2021 Overall, 2021 was a good year for tech professionals in the United States, with the average salary up 6.9 percent to US $104,566, according to online recruitment firm Dice. Dice…
The Meeting of the Minds That Launched AI
There’s more to this group photo from a 1956 AI workshop than you’d think The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, held from 18 June through 17 August of 1956, is widely considered the event that kicked off AI as…
New AI System Predicts Seizures With Near-Perfect Accuracy
A novel AI design can accurately predict seizures up to one hour before they occur, with 99.6 accuracy For the roughly 50 million people worldwide with epilepsy, the exchange of electrical signals between cells in their brain can sometimes go haywire…
New hope for early pancreatic cancer intervention via AI-based risk prediction
MIT CSAIL researchers develop advanced machine-learning models that outperform current methods in detecting pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL Publication Date: January 18, 2024 The first documented case of pancreatic cancer dates back to the 18th century. Since then, researchers…
Can AI Stop People From Believing Fake News?
Machine learning algorithms provide a way to detect misinformation based on writing style and how articles are shared Machine learning algorithms provide a way to detect misinformation based on writing style and how articles are shared. On topics as varied…
INTERVIEW: AI expert warns of ‘digital colonization’ in Africa
2 January 2024SDGs Artificial intelligence (AI) is ripe to help resolve certain major problems in Africa, from farming to the health sector, but Senegalese expert Seydina Moussa Ndiaye is warning of a new “colonization” of the continent by this new…
Weighing the Prophecies of AI Doom
Researchers surveyed point to AI’s existential risk; critics showcase study’s red flags As the steady hum of artificial intelligence activity carries on from 2023 into the new year, the research group AI Impacts has released the results of their most recent outlook survey among AI researchers…
Play Infinite Versions of AI-Generated Pong on the Go
A Raspberry Pi Pico W Handheld Writes Its Own Games AI TOOLSOPENAIRASPBERRY PI PICO WAI PROGRAMMINGCODEXCOPILOT THERE IS CURRENTLY A lot of interest in AI tools designed to help programmers write software. GitHub’s Copilot and Amazon’s CodeWhisperer apply deep-learning techniques originally developed for generating natural-language text by…
AI Everywhere, All at Once
It’s time to get serious about regulating artificial intelligence HARRY GOLDSTEIN 31 MAY 2023 3 MIN READ DANIEL ZENDER It’s been a frenetic six months since OpenAI introduced its large language model ChatGPT to the world at the end of last year. Every day…