Taxation With Vector Representation: A reinforcement learning approach to better tax policy
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Taxation With Vector Representation: A reinforcement learning approach to better tax policy

Governments have struggled to find a tax formula that promotes prosperity without creating extremes of wealth and poverty. Can machine learning show the way?

May 13, 20201 min read
Triage for Pandemic Patients: Complications AlgoMarker measures a patient's Covid risk.
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Triage for Pandemic Patients: Complications AlgoMarker measures a patient's Covid risk.

Israeli and American hospitals are using an algorithm to flag individuals at high risk for Covid-19 complications.

May 6, 20202 min read
Triage for Pandemic Patients: Complications AlgoMarker measures a patient's Covid risk.
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Triage for Pandemic Patients: Complications AlgoMarker measures a patient's Covid risk.

Israeli and American hospitals are using an algorithm to flag individuals at high risk for Covid-19 complications.

May 6, 20202 min read
Room With a View: AI detects humans from Wi-Fi disturbances.
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Room With a View: AI detects humans from Wi-Fi disturbances.

Your body disturbs Wi-Fi signals as you move through them. New research takes advantage of the effect to recognize the presence of people. Yang Liu and colleagues at Syracuse University detected people in a room with a Wi-Fi router by analyzing the signal.

April 29, 20202 min read
Room With a View: AI detects humans from Wi-Fi disturbances.
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Room With a View: AI detects humans from Wi-Fi disturbances.

Your body disturbs Wi-Fi signals as you move through them. New research takes advantage of the effect to recognize the presence of people. Yang Liu and colleagues at Syracuse University detected people in a room with a Wi-Fi router by analyzing the signal.

April 29, 20202 min read
Finding a Floor Plan: Scan2Plan helps vacuum robots create interior maps.
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Finding a Floor Plan: Scan2Plan helps vacuum robots create interior maps.

Robot vacuum cleaners are pretty good at navigating rooms, but they still get stuck in tight spaces. New work takes a step toward giving them the smarts they’ll need to escape the bathroom.

April 29, 20202 min read
Finding a Floor Plan: Scan2Plan helps vacuum robots create interior maps.
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Finding a Floor Plan: Scan2Plan helps vacuum robots create interior maps.

Robot vacuum cleaners are pretty good at navigating rooms, but they still get stuck in tight spaces. New work takes a step toward giving them the smarts they’ll need to escape the bathroom.

April 29, 20202 min read
A Neural Net in Every Bathroom: A smart toilet uses AI to monitor waste for signs of disease.
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A Neural Net in Every Bathroom: A smart toilet uses AI to monitor waste for signs of disease.

It’s time to stop flushing valuable data down the toilet. The Precision Health Toilet, a suite of sensors that attach to an ordinary commode, monitors human waste for input for signs of disease. It identifies individual users by scanning where the sun doesn’t shine.

April 22, 20202 min read
AI on the Cob: An AI system predicted crop yields.
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AI on the Cob: An AI system predicted crop yields.

Deep learning research is harvesting better ways to manage farms. A convolutional neural network predicted corn yields in fields across the U.S. Midwest.

April 22, 20202 min read
First, Make No Harmful Models: Many AI systems for Covid-19 used biased data.
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First, Make No Harmful Models: Many AI systems for Covid-19 used biased data.

Researchers have rushed out a battery of AI-powered tools to combat the coronavirus, but an assessment of dozens of models is a wake-up call for machine learning engineers.

April 22, 20201 min read
A Neural Net in Every Bathroom: A smart toilet uses AI to monitor waste for signs of disease.
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A Neural Net in Every Bathroom: A smart toilet uses AI to monitor waste for signs of disease.

It’s time to stop flushing valuable data down the toilet. The Precision Health Toilet, a suite of sensors that attach to an ordinary commode, monitors human waste for input for signs of disease. It identifies individual users by scanning where the sun doesn’t shine.

April 22, 20202 min read
AI on the Cob: An AI system predicted crop yields.
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AI on the Cob: An AI system predicted crop yields.

Deep learning research is harvesting better ways to manage farms. A convolutional neural network predicted corn yields in fields across the U.S. Midwest.

April 22, 20202 min read
First, Make No Harmful Models: Many AI systems for Covid-19 used biased data.
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First, Make No Harmful Models: Many AI systems for Covid-19 used biased data.

Researchers have rushed out a battery of AI-powered tools to combat the coronavirus, but an assessment of dozens of models is a wake-up call for machine learning engineers.

April 22, 20201 min read
Data — From Patient to Health Record: AI automatically fills out electronic health records.
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Data — From Patient to Health Record: AI automatically fills out electronic health records.

Doctors are overwhelmed by clerical work. Healthcare-savvy voice assistants are picking up the slack.

April 15, 20202 min read
Prognosis — Early Warning for Sepsis: AI can provide an early warning for sepsis.
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Prognosis — Early Warning for Sepsis: AI can provide an early warning for sepsis.

An AI-driven alarm system helps rescue patients before infections become fatal. The problem: Machine learning can spot patterns in electronic health data indicating where a patient’s condition is headed that may be too subtle for doctors and nurses to catch.

April 15, 20202 min read

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