A new model of learning centers on bursts of neural activity that act as teaching signals — approximating backpropagation, the algorithm behind learning in AI. Every time a human or machine learns how...
Naturally, we’re biased to believe that we’re the best — just like you — but we think it’s important to question things sometimes. Technology can be biased — even if it’s not its fault. There are plen...
The enterprise sector is poised to start spending top-dollar on AI next year, but perhaps the most salient question has yet to be answered: Is this going to make money, or just cost money? The fact re...
What kind of manager would but their full faith in an AI system? What types would brush aside AI in favor of their own conclusions? When it comes to high-level strategic decisions, many executives sti...
In the first installment of Healthcare IT News’ newest feature series, five hospital and health system IT leaders describe how and where they’re planning to spend on artificial intelligenc...
Truck safety is a major focus for the trucking industry. Now there is artificial intelligence that can make a real-time difference in lives, money and on-road safety. A truck fleet accident costs an a...
On top of recommending the excellent autobiography of Stanislaw Ulam, this post is about using the software Stan, but not directly to perform inference, instead to obtain R functions to evaluate a tar...
U.S. Water and Wastewater Systems (WWS) Sector facilities have been breached multiple times in ransomware attacks during the last two years, U.S. government agencies said in a joint advisory on Thursd...
AI tools that could one day appear in Facebook’s AR glasses Facebook is pouring a lot of time and money into augmented reality, including building its own AR glasses with Ray-Ban. Right now, these gad...
Founders tend to think responsible AI practices are challenging to implement and may slow the progress of their business. They often jump to mature examples like Salesforce’s Office of Ethical and Hum...
What if by leveraging today’s artificial intelligence to predict events several days in advance, countries like the United States could simply avoid warfare in the first place? It sounds like th...
A new survey conducted by Replicant found that nearly 80% of consumers indicated they would prefer to speak with a virtual agent or machine to avoid long hold times. Moreover, 57% of consumers would s...
« I was greatly concerned to find that a tech giant had ended up with my confidential medical records. » A class-action lawsuit has been launched against DeepMind, the Google-owned AI research company...
The volume of data in healthcare is massive, but its potential to provide insight into patient care is still in its infancy. That said, algorithms mimicking human-level cognition in « understanding » ...
The MyKings botnet (aka Smominru or DarkCloud) is still actively spreading, making massive amounts of money in crypto, five years after it first appeared in the wild. Being one of the most analyzed bo...