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Is Subjective Beauty Something We Can Model With AI?
How does the human brain decide someone is beautiful? It is something universal or subjective? This AI attempts to help give us some answers to these questions. This AI reads your brain to generate personally attractive faces. It generates images containing optimal values for personal attractive features on a human face! While we instantaneously recognize …
The Implications Of Open-Source AI: Should You Release Your AI Source Code Publicly?
As humanity continues to implement new AI-solutions into many industries, the question of these projects’ usefulness and ethics is still often debated. Experts emphasize that developers of any new AI-tool must check its for goodness’, be responsible for its safety and consider its potential risk of harm. Still, the question of who should control the …
The (Robotic) Doctor Will See You Now
In the era of social distancing, using robots for some health care interactions is a promising way to reduce in-person contact between health care workers and sick patients. However, a key question that needs to be answered is how patients will react to a robot entering the exam room. Researchers from MIT and Brigham and …
The 5 Best Job Choices In AI By Salary And Job Prospects
Artificial intelligence (Al) paychecks benefit from a scarce talent and high demand. It is as per the law of supply and demand, and currently, everything related to Al is in very high demand. The salaries of Al professionals are reaching the sky height and beyond it. It is also essential to note that one Japanese …
AI Can Now Learn To Manipulate Human Behaviour
Artificial intelligence (AI) is learning more about how to work with (and on) humans. A recent study has shown how AI can learn to identify vulnerabilities in human habits and behaviours and use them to influence human decision-making. It may seem cliched to say AI is transforming every aspect of the way we live and …
How I’m Using AI To Translate ‘Wash Your Hands’ In 500 Languages
By using both human and machine-generated translations, key health phrases can be translated into local languages spoken all over the world. You might not know, but there are currently 7,117 languages spoken in the world. Not dialects, but living languages! However, much of the world’s digital media is available in only a couple dozen languages, and …
Here’s What Happened When AI And Humans Met In A Strawberry-Growing Contest
This article is part of the The Davos Agenda In Pinduoduo’s Smart Agriculture Competition, four technology teams competed with traditional farmers over four months to grow strawberries. Data analysis, intelligent sensors and greenhouse automation helped the scientists win. Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies such as AI are forecast to deliver huge productivity gains – but need the …
Urban Infrastructure: Keeping Economies And People Healthy
The way we live and, crucially, where we live, is changing fast. In 1950, 746 million people around the world lived in cities. Today, 3.9 billion do – and that figure is expected to increase by a further 2.5 billion by 2050. The world is moving from spacious, green, rural lives to condensed, concrete urban ones. Putting …
Artificial Intelligence Can Deepen Social Inequality. Here Are 5 Ways To Help Prevent This
From Google searches and dating sites to detecting credit card fraud, artificial intelligence (AI) keeps finding new ways to creep into our lives. But can we trust the algorithms that drive it? As humans, we make errors. We can have attention lapses and misinterpret information. Yet when we reassess, we can pick out our errors …
Recruiting Artificial Intelligence To Create A More Diverse Workforce
In today’s highly competitive business environment, a diverse workforce has become a factor that can give an organization the edge. Winning clients, attracting talent or even securing funding to take a company public can depend on diversity. For example, Goldman Sachs Group recently announced it will no longer support initial public offerings of companies with all-male boards. The returns on …