Day: October 27, 2021
Making machine learning more useful to high-stakes decision makers – MIT News
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in seven children in the United States experienced abuse or neglect in the past year. Child protective services agencies around the nation receive a high number of reports each year (about 4.4 million in 2019) of alleged neglect or abuse. With so many cases,…
FDA Convenes Medical Device Workshop Focused on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Transparency – JD Supra
On October 14, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA” or the “Agency”) held a virtual workshop entitled, Transparency of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”)/Machine Learning (“ML”)-enabled Medical Devices. The workshop builds upon previous Agency efforts in the AI/ML space. Back in 2019, FDA issued a discussion paper and request for feedback called, Proposed Regulatory…
The Future of Personalization: Marrying Human Senses With Machine Learning – Total Retail
When it comes to online shopping, Alexa is one of the widely used machine learning-based conversational interfaces. While many of us love to ask such tech interfaces to better understand our needs, most merely cannot handle conversation beyond one or two questions. In other words, we’re beginning to see the indicators of where the machine…
Ensemble-based machine learning algorithms accurately predict anti-cancer drug responses – News-Medical.Net
Today, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic advancements made by research scientists and engineers are driving more targeted medical therapies through the power of prediction. The ability to rapidly analyze large amounts of complex data has clinicians closer to providing individualized treatments for patients, with an aim to create better outcomes through more proactive, personalized…
CORAS to Support US Navy’s Shipboard Systems with AI/ML – Seapower – SEAPOWER Magazine Online
TYSONS, Va. — CORAS, an enterprise decision management software company in Tysons, Virginia, has won a prototype project agreement under the other transaction authority with the U.S. Navy’s Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic for the Information Warfare Research Project (IWRP). The focus of the prototype is to improve and troubleshoot shipboard information technology systems. As…
Top 10 Artificial Intelligence Technologies – Analytics Insight
by Analytics Insight October 27, 2021 Have you ever imagined a technology that would replace all repetitive jobs and relieve humans from performing heavy labor? Artificial intelligence is a technological blow that has continued to take the world by storm since 1955. The advent of the internet has helped this technology progress exponentially, and that…
Machine learning enables global solar-panel detection – Nature.com
NEWS AND VIEWS 27 October 2021 An inventory of the world’s solar-panel installations has been produced with the help of machine learning, revealing many more than had previously been recorded. The results will inform efforts to meet global targets for solar-energy use. Lynn H. Kaack Lynn H. Kaack is in the Data Science Lab, Hertie…
Regulators release 10 principles for good machine learning practice – Regulatory Focus
Posted 27 October 2021 | By Mary Ellen Schneider Regulators from the US, Canada, and the United Kingdom unveiled 10 principles to guide the development of good machine learning practice for medical devices. The principles are meant to be used to drive the adoption of good practices that have been proven in other sectors, to help…
Abacus.AI Raises a $50M Series C and releases Computer Vision as a Service
[October 27, 2021] SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Abacus.AI is announcing $50M in Series C funding from Tiger Global, Coatue, Index Ventures, and Alkeon. As part of this release, the company is announcing support for Computer Vision use-cases. The round was led by Tiger Global with participation from Coatue, Index Ventures, and Alkeon. Series C…
Discovering exoplanets using artificial intelligence
The method uses a data representation where the presence of a planet (right) is seen as a river in the sky (left). The image on the right shows the measured luminous flux of the star Kepler-36 with the plot of eclipses due to the planet Kepler-36 b. Credit: Dave Hoefler By implementing artificial intelligence techniques…