Amazon and the NFL team up to create a ‘Digital Athlete’ simulation

Posted on December 6, 2019December 6, 2019 by admin

Amazon's AWS and the NFL plan to use AI and machine learning to protect players. The partners announced today that they'll co-develop a "Digital Athlete" platform, which will create a computer simulation model of an NFL player. Using the computer sim…

MIT creates an AI that understands the laws of physics intuitively

Posted on December 5, 2019December 5, 2019 by admin

We often think of artificial intelligence as a tool for automating certain tasks. But it turns out that the technology could also help give us a better understanding of ourselves. At least that's what a team of researchers at the Massachusetts Instit…

A new blood test could indicate multiple conditions with one sample

Posted on December 3, 2019December 3, 2019 by admin

A new blood test could use a single plasma sample to assess health and predict the likelihood of developing a range of diseases. Thanks to Theranos, this may sound familiar, but unlike that debacle, this proof-of-concept is backed by research publish…

Amazon ends creepy program that sent samples based on purchase history

Posted on November 27, 2019November 27, 2019 by admin

It's normally a bad thing when companies take freebies away, but you might not mind quite so much in this case. Amazon is ending a Product Sampling program that sent free samples of cosmetics, protein bars and other goods based on your shopping habi…

AI determines how much help Shakespeare had writing a play

Posted on November 25, 2019November 25, 2019 by admin

Many believe that Shakespeare had help writing at least some of his plays, but to what extent? AI might have an answer. Czech researcher Petr Plecháč has developed a machine learning system that determined which portions of Henry VIII were l…

Hitting the Books: Humans are responsible for the antics of our AIs

Posted on November 24, 2019November 24, 2019 by admin

Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and…

Intel unveils its first chips built for AI in the cloud

Posted on November 13, 2019November 13, 2019 by admin

Intel is no stranger to AI-oriented chips, but now it's turning its attention to those chips that might be thousands of miles away. The tech firm has introduced two new Nervana Neural Network Processors, the NNP-T1000 (below) and NNP-I1000 (above),…

Weather Channel app uses Watson to tell you when flu season is coming

Posted on November 11, 2019November 11, 2019 by admin

Are you the sort who grows wary around other people when flu season hits? You now have another tool in your (slightly anti-social) arsenal. The latest version of the Weather Channel app for Android and iOS now includes a Flu Insights feature that u…

Microsoft AI helps diagnose cervical cancer faster

Posted on November 11, 2019November 11, 2019 by admin

In some cases, AI-assisted cancer detection might be more than a convenience — it could be the key to getting a diagnosis in the first place. Microsoft and SRL Diagnostics have developed an AI tool that helps detect cervical cancer, freeing doctors…

Google researchers taught an AI to recognize smells

Posted on October 25, 2019October 25, 2019 by admin

For decades, perfumers and scientists have struggled to predict the relationship between a molecule's structure and its scent. While scientists can look at a wavelength of light and identify what color it is, when it comes to scents, scientists can't…