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
Workers of the World, Don’t Unite: Computer vision helped workers maintain social distance.
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Workers of the World, Don’t Unite: Computer vision helped workers maintain social distance.

Computer vision is helping construction workers keep their social distance. Smartvid.io, a service that focuses on construction sites, offers a tool that recognizes when workers get too close to each other. The tool sends distancing warnings and reports to construction superintendents.

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

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
Workers of the World, Don’t Unite: Computer vision helped workers maintain social distance.
Tech & Society

Workers of the World, Don’t Unite: Computer vision helped workers maintain social distance.

Computer vision is helping construction workers keep their social distance. Smartvid.io, a service that focuses on construction sites, offers a tool that recognizes when workers get too close to each other. The tool sends distancing warnings and reports to construction superintendents.

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
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
Diagnosis — The Telltale Heart: How a company is using AI to monitor hearth health
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Diagnosis — The Telltale Heart: How a company is using AI to monitor hearth health

The wearable revolution is helping doctors figure out what’s troubling your ticker — thanks to deep learning. The problem: Arrhythmias, a range of conditions in which the heart beats too fast, too slow, or erratically, can cause heart attack or stroke.

April 15, 20202 min read
Diagnosis — The Telltale Heart: How a company is using AI to monitor hearth health
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Diagnosis — The Telltale Heart: How a company is using AI to monitor hearth health

The wearable revolution is helping doctors figure out what’s troubling your ticker — thanks to deep learning. The problem: Arrhythmias, a range of conditions in which the heart beats too fast, too slow, or erratically, can cause heart attack or stroke.

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

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
Data Augmentation in 3D: How Waymo augments 3D lidar data for self-driving cars
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Data Augmentation in 3D: How Waymo augments 3D lidar data for self-driving cars

An unconventional approach to modifying data is cutting the amount of work required to train self-driving cars. Waymo unveiled a machine learning pipeline that varies lidar scans representing pedestrians and other objects.

April 8, 20201 min read
Data Augmentation in 3D: How Waymo augments 3D lidar data for self-driving cars
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Data Augmentation in 3D: How Waymo augments 3D lidar data for self-driving cars

An unconventional approach to modifying data is cutting the amount of work required to train self-driving cars. Waymo unveiled a machine learning pipeline that varies lidar scans representing pedestrians and other objects.

April 8, 20201 min read
Online Conference Goes Antiviral: A conference explored how AI was deployed against Covid-19.
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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.
Tech & Society

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
Where Are the Live Bombs?: Computer vision identifies unexploded bombs in Cambodia.
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Where Are the Live Bombs?: Computer vision identifies unexploded bombs in Cambodia.

Unexploded munitions from past wars continue to kill and maim thousands of people every year. Computer vision is helping researchers figure out where these dormant weapons are likely to be.

April 1, 20202 min read

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