AI Can’t Take Over Everyone’s Jobs Soon (If Ever)
Models are still expensive to run, hard to use, and frequently wrong “Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones?” This is one of several questions posed by the Future of Life Institute’s recent call for a pause on “giant AI…
Let’s Shape AI Before AI Shapes Us
It’s time to have a global conversation about how AI should be developed ILLUSTRATION: ANDRZEJ WOJCICKI/CORBIS Artificial intelligence is like a beautiful suitor who repeatedly brings his admirer to the edge of consummation only to vanish, dashing hopes and leaving an…
The Internet Isn’t Completely Weird Yet; AI Can Fix That
“Model collapse” looms when AI trains on the output of other models The Internet is hurtling into a hurricane of AI-generated nonsense, and no one knows how to stop it. That’s the sobering possibility presented in a pair of papers…
U.S. and EU Announce Plans to Develop AI Standards
The two will have to navigate thorny differences of opinion on issues like data governance, however In late January, civil servants in the United States and European Union promised that the two would join forces and support development of AI models in…
Using AI to Make Better AI
New approach brings faster, AI-optimized AI within reach for image recognition and other applications Since 2017, AI researchers have been using AI neural networks to help design better and faster AI neural networks. Applying AI in pursuit of better AI has, to date,…
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…