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Month: July 2020

Researchers Use Artificial Intelligence To Study Elephant Calls – NPR

The Elephant Listening Project has been listening to elephant calls for 20 years to learn more about animals. But identifying the calls used to be laborious — until scientists used AI. Source: https://www.npr.org/2020/07/31/897836741/researchers-use-artificial-intelligence-to-study-elephant-calls

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    We’ve forgotten the most important thing about AI. It’s time to remember it again

    In the 18th century, Hungarian inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen created a never-before-seen chess-playing machine. The automaton, called the Mechanical Turk, could handle a game of chess against a human player, and pretty well with that: it even defeated Napoleon Bonaparte in 1809, during a campaign in Vienna.  It was eventually revealed that von Kempelen’s invention…

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      Machine learning reveals recipe for building artificial proteins

      Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Proteins are essential to the life of cells, carrying out complex tasks and catalyzing chemical reactions. Scientists and engineers have long sought to harness this power by designing artificial proteins that can perform new tasks, like treat disease, capture carbon, or harvest energy, but many of the processes designed to create…

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        How India is using Artificial Intelligence to combat COVID-19 – THE WEEK

        Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been one of the biggest technology success stories of the past decade. As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the globe, researchers and entrepreneurs stepped up to devise new ways to combat it. From understanding and preventing the spread of the virus to diagnosing and treating it, startups and established technology companies…

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          How AI and ML Applications Will Benefit from Vector Processing – EnterpriseAI

          As expected, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications are already having an impact on society. Many industries that we tap into daily—such as banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), and digitized health care—can benefit from AI and ML applications to help them optimize mission-critical operations and execute functions in real time. The BFSI…

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            AI & Autonomous Bots In The Army: Insights From John Fossaceca, APM For AI & ML, US Army Research Laboratory (ARL)

            When the average person thinks about AI and robots what often comes to mind are post-apocalyptic visions of scary, super-intelligent machines taking over the world, or even the universe. The Terminator movie series is a good reflection of this fear of AI, with the core technology behind the intelligent machines powered by Skynet, referred to…

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              Machine learning reveals recipe for building artificial proteins

              Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Proteins are essential to the life of cells, carrying out complex tasks and catalyzing chemical reactions. Scientists and engineers have long sought to harness this power by designing artificial proteins that can perform new tasks, like treat disease, capture carbon, or harvest energy, but many of the processes designed to create…

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                The AI-boost: Using more artificial intelligence will boost GDP growth – The Financial Express

                AI-intensity was defined as the ratio of software investment to total sales, and the study found that, for instance, in the case of agriculture, while the average AI intensity is 0.001, the maximum intensity was 20 times as much. (Representative image)A PwC study in 2017 estimated the world would gain $15.7 trillion by 2030 if…

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                  AI & Autonomous Bots In The Army: Insights From John Fossaceca, APM For AI & ML, US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) – Forbes

                  When the average person thinks about AI and robots what often comes to mind are post-apocalyptic visions of scary, super-intelligent machines taking over the world, or even the universe. The Terminator movie series is a good reflection of this fear of AI, with the core technology behind the intelligent machines powered by Skynet, referred to…

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                    Ex-Google Boss Says Artificial Intelligence Will Be Key to US National Security – Wall Street Journal

                    The former top executive of Google described artificial intelligence as a linchpin in global power struggles and warned the U.S. could fall behind rivals like China unless it elevates AI as a cornerstone of national security. Eric Schmidt, who led the tech giant for a decade and was executive chairman of parent company Alphabet Inc.,…

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