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Artificial Intelligence Can Diagnose Cancer As Effectively As Human Doctors - Study
While scientists note that many studies suggest that AI systems can diagnose cancer on par with medical specialists, there is not enough data to say machines can significantly outperform them.
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Avanan has been proven to catch the evolving threats missed by Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), as well as Secure Email Gateways (SEG) such as Proofpoint and Mimecast.
Market News
‘Nerd,’ ‘Nonsmoker,’ ‘Wrongdoer’: How Might A.I. Label You?
Everyone, it seemed, was uploading selfies to a website where some sort of artificial intelligence analyzed each face and described what it saw.
Everyday people: How a massive picture database sparked a discussion about AI and bias
"That is by design: We want to shed light on what happens when technical systems are trained on problematic training data," Paglen and Crawford say.
Ethics
Is There a Human-AI Relationship?
I was asked to make a "short intervention" kicking off a workshop that was part of the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT)'s 25th Anniversary celebration.
Ethically Aligned Design: A Personal Side of "From Principles to Practice" (Part One)
It was written by over four hundred members of The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems and edited by about one thousand additional members.
Robotics
Spot, the Internet’s Wildest 4-Legged Robot, Is Finally Here
A flick of a joystick with my left thumb sends the quadruped forward and backward and side to side, while my right thumb turns it left and right, motors whirring with each deft step.
FarmWise raises $14.5M Series A for sustainable robotic farming
FarmWise is poised to fundamentally disrupt farming processes, and we are excited to play a role in their future.
Research
Machine Learning Systems Design
For example if a driverless car’s detection of cyclist is dependent on its detection of the road surface, a change in the road surface detection algorithm will have downstream effects on the cyclist detection.
Automation via Reinforcement Learning
Another example of a technique to make reduction-to-RL more tractable is sim2real, where we first hand-engineer a simulator then identify the optimal policy on our simulator, and finally transfer it back to the real environment.
Building AI to inform people's fashion choices
These serve as ground truth examples of fashionable outfits, and unfashionable examples are then bootstrapped by swapping garments on the fashionable examples with their least similar counterparts.