What Americans Want From AI: Pew survey asks 11,000 Americans about AI.
Medicine

What Americans Want From AI: Pew survey asks 11,000 Americans about AI.

Adults in the United States tend to view AI’s medical applications favorably but are leery of text and image generation. Pew Research Center polled 11,004 U.S. adults for their opinions of AI in science, healthcare, and media.

March 29, 20232 min read
PCA Raises Red Flags: Principal component analysis can negatively impact science.
Medicine

PCA Raises Red Flags: Principal component analysis can negatively impact science.

Principal component analysis is a key machine learning technique for reducing the number of dimensions in a dataset, but new research shows that its output can be inconsistent and unreliable.

March 2, 20232 min read
PCA Raises Red Flags: Principal component analysis can negatively impact science.
Medicine

PCA Raises Red Flags: Principal component analysis can negatively impact science.

Principal component analysis is a key machine learning technique for reducing the number of dimensions in a dataset, but new research shows that its output can be inconsistent and unreliable.

March 2, 20232 min read
Been Kim: Google Brain researcher Been Kim envisions a scientific approach to interpretability
Medicine

Been Kim: Google Brain researcher Been Kim envisions a scientific approach to interpretability

It’s an exciting time for AI, with fascinating advances in generated media and many other applications, some even in science and medicine. Some folks may dream about what more AI can create and how much bigger models we may engineer.

December 28, 20223 min read
Been Kim: Google Brain researcher Been Kim envisions a scientific approach to interpretability
Medicine

Been Kim: Google Brain researcher Been Kim envisions a scientific approach to interpretability

It’s an exciting time for AI, with fascinating advances in generated media and many other applications, some even in science and medicine. Some folks may dream about what more AI can create and how much bigger models we may engineer.

December 28, 20223 min read
Foundations of Evil: The Fear of Weapons of Mass Destruction Designed by AI
Medicine

Foundations of Evil: The Fear of Weapons of Mass Destruction Designed by AI

A growing number of AI models can be put to purposes their designers didn’t envision. Does that include heinous deeds?

October 27, 20221 min read
Foundations of Evil: The Fear of Weapons of Mass Destruction Designed by AI
Medicine

Foundations of Evil: The Fear of Weapons of Mass Destruction Designed by AI

A growing number of AI models can be put to purposes their designers didn’t envision. Does that include heinous deeds?

October 27, 20221 min read
New Clarity on Rules for Medical AI: FDA Guidance on AI Medical Devices for 2022
Medicine

New Clarity on Rules for Medical AI: FDA Guidance on AI Medical Devices for 2022

The United States paved the way to regulate AI systems in healthcare. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) interpreted existing rules that govern health-related software to include some machine learning algorithms.

October 12, 20222 min read
New Clarity on Rules for Medical AI: FDA Guidance on AI Medical Devices for 2022
Medicine

New Clarity on Rules for Medical AI: FDA Guidance on AI Medical Devices for 2022

The United States paved the way to regulate AI systems in healthcare. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) interpreted existing rules that govern health-related software to include some machine learning algorithms.

October 12, 20222 min read
China's AI ROI: AI May Add $600 Billion to China's Economy by 2030
Medicine

China's AI ROI: AI May Add $600 Billion to China's Economy by 2030

China’s investment in AI business, infrastructure, and research could pay off big over the next decade.

August 31, 20222 min read
China's AI ROI: AI May Add $600 Billion to China's Economy by 2030
Medicine

China's AI ROI: AI May Add $600 Billion to China's Economy by 2030

China’s investment in AI business, infrastructure, and research could pay off big over the next decade.

August 31, 20222 min read
Bad Machine Learning Makes Bad Science: Is Machine Learning Driving a Scientific Reproducibility Crisis?
Medicine

Bad Machine Learning Makes Bad Science: Is Machine Learning Driving a Scientific Reproducibility Crisis?

A recent workshop highlighted the impact of poorly designed AI models in medicine, security, software engineering, and other disciplines.

August 17, 20221 min read
Bad Machine Learning Makes Bad Science: Is Machine Learning Driving a Scientific Reproducibility Crisis?
Medicine

Bad Machine Learning Makes Bad Science: Is Machine Learning Driving a Scientific Reproducibility Crisis?

A recent workshop highlighted the impact of poorly designed AI models in medicine, security, software engineering, and other disciplines.

August 17, 20221 min read
AI Jobs Grow in Pharma: Drug Companies are Hiring More Machine Learning Engineers Than Ever
Medicine

AI Jobs Grow in Pharma: Drug Companies are Hiring More Machine Learning Engineers Than Ever

Pharmaceutical companies in several countries are hiring machine learning engineers at increasing rates.

August 10, 20222 min read
Protein Families Deciphered: Machine Learning Categorizes Proteins Based on Their Functions
Medicine

Protein Families Deciphered: Machine Learning Categorizes Proteins Based on Their Functions

Convolutional neural networks separate proteins into functional families without considering their shapes.

August 10, 20222 min read

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