Tag: AI
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AI may be just what the dentist ordered
Could close the gap, allowing for more equitable access to care and treatment
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How facial-recognition app poses threat to privacy, civil liberties
New York Times tech reporter examines case of face-recognition software firm, repercussions for privacy, civil liberties, particularly involving law enforcement, social media.
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A tech warning: AI is coming fast and it’s going to be rough ride
Former Google chairman Eric Schmidt details disruptions, dangers technology will bring to economy, national security, other aspects of American life.
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If it wasn’t created by a human artist, is it still art?
Writer, animator, architect, musician, and mixed-media artist detail potential value, limit of works produced by AI
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Making algorithm used in AI more human-like
Researchers used fMRI to test ideas about complex decision-making.
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What happens when computers take on one of ‘most human’ art forms?
New play to debut at Arts First Festival examines relationship between technology, humanity, and theater.
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Using AI to prevent blood clots, strokes
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence-based method to predict the risk of atrial fibrillation within the next five years based on results from electrocardiograms.
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Deploying AI against colon cancer
Harvard-led research signals life-saving potential for artificial intelligence in fight against colon cancer.
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Engaging AI in the battle against Alzheimer’s
A team of researchers has developed an artificial intelligence-based method to screen currently available medications as possible treatments for Alzheimer’s disease. The method could represent a rapid and inexpensive way to repurpose existing therapies.
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AI can help reduce the risk of HIV in high-risk communities
Researchers have developed an AI system that can identify the people within a social network who can most effectively promote information about HIV prevention to their peers.
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Beyond Pavlov
Artificial intelligence researchers and neurobiologists share data on how options are sorted in decision-making.
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Easy on the eyes
New computer program uses artificial intelligence to determine what visual neurons like to see. The approach could shed light on learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, and other neurologic conditions.
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Containing the sun
Scientists from Harvard and Princeton have teamed up to create an artificial intelligence algorithm that can predict destructive disruptions in nuclear fusion experiments
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Building a better med student
Researchers at Harvard Medical School’s Blavatnik Institute are developing an algorithm with information that is so complex, it will understand everything a first-year medical student knows.
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Tapping the collective mind
Machine learning is an adaptive form of artificial intelligence that could allow physicians to use the collective wisdom of billions of medical decisions, patient cases, and outcomes to inform diagnosis and treatment.
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Examining aftershocks with AI
Sparked by a suggestion from researchers at Google, Harvard scientists are using artificial intelligence technology to analyze a database of earthquakes from around the world in an effort to predict where aftershocks might occur. Using deep-learning algorithms, they developed a system that, while still imprecise, was able to forecast aftershocks significantly better than random assignment.
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Movement monitor
A team of researchers from the Rowland Institute at Harvard, Harvard University, and the University of Tübingen is turning to artificial intelligence technology to make it far easier than ever before to track animals’ movements in the lab.
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Deep into the wild
Researchers used “deep learning” to identify images captured by motion-sensing cameras.
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Take a seat … and the city’s pulse
A Harvard professor’s sculpture translates real-time data into soundscapes.
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The robots are coming, but relax
As artificial intelligence takes hold in more fields, you’ll likely have a job, analysts say, but it may be a different one.