In the News
An artificial intelligence tool that can help detect melanoma
For years, physicians have relied on visual inspection to identify suspicious pigmented lesions (SPLs), which can be an indication of skin cancer. Now, researchers from MIT and elsewhere have devised a new artificial intelligence pipeline, using deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) and...
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In The News
Security In The Cloud Is Enhanced By Artificial Intelligence
One of the initial hesitations in many enterprise organizations moving into the cloud in the last decade was the question of security. However, nothing stands still, and the extra volume of data and networking intersects with the increased complexity of attacks, and artificial intelligence (AI) is...
Flaws in Machine Learning & How Deep Learning Is Helping
It’s hard to ignore the cultural and organizational impact that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has had over us. Most organizations today have realized the impact of AI, and are doing all that they can to participate in and help facilitate the growth of the technology.
Applied use cases
A.I. Can’t Detect Our Emotions
For example, there’s been considerable pushback against companies unfairly using emotion detection and analysis software during interviews to determine a candidate’s “employability score.” The AI Now research institute even called for a ban on emotion-recognition technologies “in important decisions...
IBM Quantum systems accelerate discoveries in science
As a leading provider of quantum computing hardware, IBM’s quantum systems powered 46 non-IBM presentations in order to help discover new algorithms, simulate condensed matter and many-body systems, explore the frontiers of quantum mechanics and particle physics, and push the field of quantum...
I Called Off My Wedding. The Internet Will Never Forget
Nor do I want to see the wedding ads on Instagram, or a near-daily collage of wedding paraphernalia on Pinterest, or the “Happy Anniversary!” emails from WeddingWire, which for a long time arrived every month on the day we were to be married.
Ethics
Building Customer Confidence in Artificial Intelligence Systems for the Financial Industry
To further address the need to bring AI ethical practices to applications in the financial services industry, over fifty industry thought-leaders from banks, credit unions, pension funds, law firms, academia, and technology services organizations based out of Canada, the US, and the UK, have created...
The AI Ethics Brief #50: AI Junkyard, algorithmic pricing, code work, policing free speech, and more ...
This week’s overview: What we’re thinking: From the Founder’s Desk: Tradeoff determination for ethics, safety, and inclusivity in AI systems Sociology of AI Ethics: Algorithmic Impact Assessments: What impact do they have?
AI Ethics in the APAC Region
The Montreal AI Ethics Institute is partnering with Women in AI and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia to host a discussion about democratising AI, disinformation, content moderation, AI in the APAC region and the region's responsibility in the AI debate.
Robotics
Serve Food in Far-Away Restaurants—Right From Your Couch
Serve Food in Far-Away Restaurants—Right From Your Couch A growing number of robots are operated remotely, often by workers thousands of miles away. Remote robot work is a growing category in job listings, especially at robotics startups looking to put systems in new settings that present challenges...
MIT researchers use radio waves to help robots find hidden objects
At some point in your life, you've probably used a combination of sight and touch to find something hidden beneath your couch cushions. The aptly named RF Grasp depends on a wrist-mounted camera and an RF reader to hone in and pick up an object.
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Students design, construct, and program the robots to compete in the Junior Game category, Robofest is a festival of competitions and events with autonomous robots that encourages students to have fun while learning principles of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) and Computer...
Research
To cool datacenter servers, Microsoft turns to boiling liquid
“We are the first cloud provider that is running two-phase immersion cooling in a production environment,” said Husam Alissa, a principal hardware engineer on Microsoft’s team for datacenter advanced development in Redmond, Washington.
ProteinGAN: A generative adversarial network that generates functional protein sequences
The specific order in which different amino acids are arranged to form a given protein ultimately determines the protein's 3D structure, physicochemical properties and molecular function. Researchers at Biomatter Designs, Vilnius University in Lithuania, and Chalmers University of Technology in...
Biological structure and function emerge from scaling unsupervised learning to 250 million protein sequences
Multiscale Organization in Sequence Representations The variation observed in large protein sequence datasets is influenced by processes at many scales, including properties that affect fitness directly, such as activity, stability, structure, binding, and other properties under selection (25, 36)...