Month: January 2023
Bowdoin’s Nascimento Discusses Artificial Intelligence on “Maine … – Bowdoin College
Fernando Nascimento is a scholar of digital and computational studies, hermeneutics, and ethics. On January 30, Nascimento was joined by Amanda Stent, director of Colby College’s Davis Institute for AI, to talk about the many ways in which AI touches our lives, as well as the risks and benefits of this rapidly developing technology. Nascimento said it…
Lawmakers seek rules for artificial intelligence | Local News … – The Daily News of Newburyport
BOSTON — Artificial intelligence tools are being used by companies to produce a range of documents from term papers to home mortgages, but the technology has raised concerns about plagiarism, misinformation, racism and other harms.As such, Beacon Hill lawmakers are pushing for new regulations to prevent the emerging machine-learning technology from being abused.One proposal, filed…
Artificial intelligence can help patients interpret home tests for COVID-19 – Medical Xpress
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New machine learning research led by George Mason University’s Professor Farrokh Alemi and Professor Janusz Wojtusiak provides a way for patients and clinicians to better predict whether symptoms are due to COVID-19, influenza, or RSV. A more accurate diagnosis leads to better decisions on course of care to heal patients and…
Earth is on track to exceed 1.5C warming in the next decade, study using AI finds – The Guardian
Earth is on track to exceed 1.5C warming in the next decade, study using AI finds Researchers found that exceeding the 2C increase has a 50% chance of happening by mid-century The world is on the brink of breaching a critical climate threshold, according to a new study published on Monday, signifying time is running…
Datamatics Global Services : Transform Claim-processing with AI/ML powered Adjudication models – Marketscreener.com
Estimated reading time: 4 mins Key takeaways from the blog AI/ML models transform the Insurance Claim Adjudication space. They have to potential to automate the Insurance value chain. They streamline the Claim Processing and accelerate the process. Insurance Claim Processing is an effort-intensive process. With many touchpoints, including receiving the first notice/claim intimation, creating a…
Will an AI be the first to discover alien life? – Nature.com
The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia is one of several helping to search for alien civilizations.Credit: Jim West/Alamy From the hills of West Virginia to the flats of rural Australia, some of the world’s largest telescopes are listening for signals from distant alien civilizations. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence, known as…
A deep-learning search for technosignatures from 820 nearby stars – Nature.com
Cocconi, G. & Morrison, P. Searching for interstellar communications. Nature 184, 844–846 (1959).Article ADS Google Scholar Tarter, J. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 39, 511–548 (2001).Article ADS Google Scholar Enriquez, J. E. et al. The Breakthrough Listen search for intelligent life: 1.1–1.9 GHz observations of 692 nearby stars. Astrophys. J….
Will machine learning help us find extraterrestrial life? – Phys.org
Nature Astronomy (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-022-01872-z”> Examples showing the four types of training data. Credit: Nature Astronomy (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-022-01872-z When pondering the probability of discovering technologically advanced extraterrestrial life, the question that often arises is, “if they’re out there, why haven’t we found them yet?” And often, the response is that we have only searched…
AI Has Found Potential Alien ‘Technosignatures’ Hidden in Radio Signals From Space – VICE
ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs.Searching the skies for UFOs or homesick aliens is practically an American pastime, and no one does it better than the SETI Institute (SETI meaning Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). Established in 1984, SETI has made it their mission to scan the skies for radio signals…
Astronomers Use a New Method to Identify Eight Candidate Alien Signals – Inverse
Imagine the moment in Contact when Jodie Foster hears an alien radio signal coming from the Vega star system. Now imagine that Jodie Foster is an AI.That might be one version of the future for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), a decades-long effort to find cultures on other planets by looking for what SETI…