Online Conference Goes Antiviral: A conference explored how AI was deployed against Covid-19.
Healthcare

Online Conference Goes Antiviral: A conference explored how AI was deployed against Covid-19.

AI experts convened to discuss how to combat the coronavirus crisis. An online conference hosted by Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered AI explored how machine learning is being deployed to address this pandemic — and prepare for the next one.

April 8, 20202 min read
Online Conference Goes Antiviral: A conference explored how AI was deployed against Covid-19.
Healthcare

Online Conference Goes Antiviral: A conference explored how AI was deployed against Covid-19.

AI experts convened to discuss how to combat the coronavirus crisis. An online conference hosted by Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered AI explored how machine learning is being deployed to address this pandemic — and prepare for the next one.

April 8, 20202 min read
Chatbots Disagree on Covid-19: Medical chatbots offered conflicting Covid advice.
Healthcare

Chatbots Disagree on Covid-19: Medical chatbots offered conflicting Covid advice.

Chatbots designed to recognize Covid-19 symptoms dispense alarmingly inconsistent recommendations. Given the same symptoms, eight high-profile medical bots responded with divergent, often conflicting advice.

April 1, 20201 min read
Chatbots Disagree on Covid-19: Medical chatbots offered conflicting Covid advice.
Healthcare

Chatbots Disagree on Covid-19: Medical chatbots offered conflicting Covid advice.

Chatbots designed to recognize Covid-19 symptoms dispense alarmingly inconsistent recommendations. Given the same symptoms, eight high-profile medical bots responded with divergent, often conflicting advice.

April 1, 20201 min read
Machine Learning Churning: The hottest AI startups of 2020, according to CB Insights
Healthcare

Machine Learning Churning: The hottest AI startups of 2020, according to CB Insights

Many of this year’s hottest AI companies are taking the spotlight from last year’s darlings.What’s new: CB Insights, which analyzes early-stage companies, published its annual list of the 100 “most promising” startups in AI.

March 11, 20201 min read
Machine Learning Churning: The hottest AI startups of 2020, according to CB Insights
Healthcare

Machine Learning Churning: The hottest AI startups of 2020, according to CB Insights

Many of this year’s hottest AI companies are taking the spotlight from last year’s darlings.What’s new: CB Insights, which analyzes early-stage companies, published its annual list of the 100 “most promising” startups in AI.

March 11, 20201 min read
Business Pushes the Envelope: The trends shaping AI in 2020
Healthcare

Business Pushes the Envelope: The trends shaping AI in 2020

The business world continues to shape deep learning’s future. Commerce is pushing AI toward more efficient consumption of data, energy, and labor, according to a report on trends in machine learning from market analyst CB Insights.

February 19, 20201 min read
Business Pushes the Envelope: The trends shaping AI in 2020
Healthcare

Business Pushes the Envelope: The trends shaping AI in 2020

The business world continues to shape deep learning’s future. Commerce is pushing AI toward more efficient consumption of data, energy, and labor, according to a report on trends in machine learning from market analyst CB Insights.

February 19, 20201 min read
Tools For a Pandemic: Chinese tech giants provide resources for Covid research.
Healthcare

Tools For a Pandemic: Chinese tech giants provide resources for Covid research.

Chinese tech giants have opened their AI platforms to scientists fighting coronavirus. Alibaba Cloud and Baidu are offering a powerful weapon to life-science researchers working to stop the spread of the illness officially known as Covid-19: free access to their computing horsepower and tools.

February 12, 20201 min read
Tools For a Pandemic: Chinese tech giants provide resources for Covid research.
Healthcare

Tools For a Pandemic: Chinese tech giants provide resources for Covid research.

Chinese tech giants have opened their AI platforms to scientists fighting coronavirus. Alibaba Cloud and Baidu are offering a powerful weapon to life-science researchers working to stop the spread of the illness officially known as Covid-19: free access to their computing horsepower and tools.

February 12, 20201 min read
Stopping Coronavirus: How Bluedot identified Covid-19 before health authorities
Healthcare

Stopping Coronavirus: How Bluedot identified Covid-19 before health authorities

A company that analyzes online information to predict epidemics spotted the upsurge in coronavirus at least a week ahead of public-health authorities. Canadian startup BlueDot alerted customers to the outbreak in he Chinese city of Wuhan on New Year’s Eve.

January 29, 20202 min read
Stopping Coronavirus: How Bluedot identified Covid-19 before health authorities
Healthcare

Stopping Coronavirus: How Bluedot identified Covid-19 before health authorities

A company that analyzes online information to predict epidemics spotted the upsurge in coronavirus at least a week ahead of public-health authorities. Canadian startup BlueDot alerted customers to the outbreak in he Chinese city of Wuhan on New Year’s Eve.

January 29, 20202 min read
Bias Goes Undercover: Adversarial attacks can fool explainable AI techniques.
Healthcare

Bias Goes Undercover: Adversarial attacks can fool explainable AI techniques.

As black-box algorithms like neural networks find their way into high-stakes fields such as transportation, healthcare, and finance, researchers have developed techniques to help explain models’ decisions. New findings show that some of these methods can be fooled.

November 27, 20192 min read
Bias Goes Undercover: Adversarial attacks can fool explainable AI techniques.
Healthcare

Bias Goes Undercover: Adversarial attacks can fool explainable AI techniques.

As black-box algorithms like neural networks find their way into high-stakes fields such as transportation, healthcare, and finance, researchers have developed techniques to help explain models’ decisions. New findings show that some of these methods can be fooled.

November 27, 20192 min read
When Private Data is Not Private: Google trained Project Nightingale on private patient data.
Healthcare

When Private Data is Not Private: Google trained Project Nightingale on private patient data.

Google spent the past year training an AI-powered health care program using personal information from one of the largest hospital systems in the U.S. Patients had no idea — until last week.

November 20, 20192 min read

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