Day: March 15, 2020

3 important trends in AI/ML you might be missing

According to a Gartner survey, 48% of global CIOs will deploy AI by the end of 2020. However, despite all the optimism around AI and ML, I continue to be a little skeptical. In the near future, I don’t foresee any real inventions that will lead to seismic shifts in productivity and the standard of…

Doctors turning to artificial intelligence to determine life expectancy

More than half a million people will be diagnosed with congestive heart failure this year, and more than half of those people will die within five years. © Provided by South Bend-Elkhart WNDU-TV Once diagnosed with congestive heart failure, doctors are now turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to determine how long patients can expect to…

AI is An Ideology, Not A Technology – WIRED

A leading anxiety in both the technology and foreign policy worlds today is China’s purported edge in the artificial intelligence race. The usual narrative goes like this: Without the constraints on data collection that liberal democracies impose and with the capacity to centrally direct greater resource allocation, the Chinese will outstrip the West. AI is…

An Unexpected Ally in the War With Bacteria – The Atlantic

Once-powerful antibiotics are losing their efficacy at a disconcerting pace as bacteria evolve immunity to our drugs. At least 700,000 people around the world now die each year from infections that could formerly be treated with antibiotics. A report last year from the United Nations Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance warned that if no…

Machine Learning Crossword #5 – Analytics India Magazine

Running in its consecutive 5th week, here’s our next machine learning crossword. Access our earlier crosswords here. This one is designed for absolute beginners in data science. How to attempt it. Click a cell on the crossword grid, or click a clueClick twice on a cell to toggle between across and downThe active cell is…