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Next-gen supercomputers are fast-tracking treatments for the coronavirus in a race against time
Scientists are using IBM’s Summit, the world’s fastest supercomputer, to help find promising candidate drugs to fight the coronavirus epidemic.
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Market News
What Are My Photos Revealing About Me?
Clearview’s app—which some law enforcement sources have claimed is more powerful than existing law enforcement facial recognition tools—has been in use by more than 2,200 law enforcement agencies.
Applied use cases
This is how the CDC is trying to forecast coronavirus’s spread
Now the agency is tapping several dozen teams to adapt their techniques to forecast the spread of the coronavirus in an effort to make more informed decisions.
AI could help with the next pandemic—but not with this one
On December 30, an artificial-intelligence company called BlueDot, which uses machine learning to monitor outbreaks of infectious diseases around the world, alerted clients—including various governments, hospitals, and businesses—to an unusual bump in pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China.
February 2020 investments flow to industrial, field robots
In February 2020, Robotics Business Review followed a total of 25 reported investments, mergers and acquisitions, and other transactions around robots, autonomous vehicles, drones, and related technologies.
Ethics
Should I Worry About... the philosophy behind AI?
As writer and broadcaster Paul Mason tells CGTN, "The basic philosophical problem posed by artificial intelligence is this: On whose behalf are we developing this stuff?
The Real Threat to Business Schools from Artificial Intelligence
However, a recent study, “Implications of Artificial Intelligence on Business Schools and Lifelong Learning,” shows that business schools remain cautious in adapting management education to address the changing needs of students, workers and organizations, writes Anne Trumbore in this opinion...
Microsoft researchers create AI ethics checklist with ML practitioners from a dozen tech companies
Well, Microsoft Research must’ve heard that, because it recently created an AI ethics checklist together with nearly 50 engineers from a dozen tech companies.
Robotics
AI Is Coming for Your Most Mind-Numbing Office Tasks
To automate the work, the New York Foundling got help from UiPath, a so-called robotic process automation company. Ultimately, the company hopes software robots will gradually learn how to automate repetitive work for themselves.
Built Robotics partners with union for robotics training programs
HOUSTON – The International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) and Built Robotics today announced a multi-year strategic partnership agreement. Built Robotics will provide its guidance systems to the IUOE’s International Training & Education Center (ITEC), located near Houston.
Making Industrial Robots Collaborative
Explaining FreeMove’s technology, Vu noted that manufacturers commonly uses computer vision, like that found in the FreeMove system, for inspection, but “we use different algorithms,” she said.
Research
Detecting COVID-19 in X-ray images with Keras, TensorFlow, and Deep Learning
Inside of today’s tutorial, you will learn how to: Sample an open source dataset of X-ray images for patients who have tested positive for COVID-19 Sample “normal” (i.e., not infected) X-ray images from healthy patients Train a CNN to automatically detect COVID-19 in X-ray images via the dataset we...
SoftCon: Simulation and Control of Soft-Bodied Animals with Biomimetic Actuators
The whole body of an animal consisting of soft tissues is modeled by tetrahedral and triangular FEM meshes. The contraction of muscles embedded in the soft tissues actuates the body and limbs to move.
Open for Research: COVID-19 Literature Dataset
Today, we announced a collaboration with colleagues to create the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) from a coalescence of scientific articles about the coronavirus group of viruses for use by the worldwide research community.
Neural Tangents
Neural Tangents is a research project written by Sam Schoenholz, Jaehoon Lee, Roman Novak, Lechao Xiao, Yasaman Bahri, and Jascha Sohl-Dickstein.