Research
Study: Automation Drives Income Inequality
When you use self-checkout machines in supermarkets and drugstores, you are probably not — with all due respect — doing a better job of bagging your purchases than checkout clerks once did. Automation just makes bagging less expensive for large retail chains. “If you introduce self-checkout kiosks, it’s not going to change productivity all …
Using AI To Study 12 Years Of Representation In TV
The show is a popular medical drama, and two police officers have just rushed a victim to the hospital. Orderlies lift the patient onto a gurney and dash into the ER. Nurses hook up IVs. A doctor takes command, shining a light into the victim’s eyes, barking orders. Now hit pause. Look closer: Who plays …
Bringing Massive AI Models To Any Cloud
IBM Research and PyTorch have come together to enable foundation models with billions of parameters to easily run on standard cloud networking infrastructure, such as Ethernet networking. IBM Research and PyTorch have come together to enable foundation models with billions of parameters to easily run on standard cloud networking infrastructure, such as Ethernet networking. The …
Using Sound To Model The World
Imagine the booming chords from a pipe organ echoing through the cavernous sanctuary of a massive, stone cathedral. The sound a cathedral-goer will hear is affected by many factors, including the location of the organ, where the listener is standing, whether any columns, pews, or other obstacles stand between them, what the walls are made …
Deep Learning With Light
Ask a smart home device for the weather forecast, and it takes several seconds for the device to respond. One reason this latency occurs is because connected devices don’t have enough memory or power to store and run the enormous machine-learning models needed for the device to understand what a user is asking of it. …
How AI Can Worsen Health Care Disparities?
Data sources that “teach” artificial intelligence could amplify and worsen disparities in health care, says law professor Nicholson Price. Those data sources are not representative and/or are based on data from current unequal care, says Price, a member of the University of Michigan’s Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation. In a recent article in Science, Price and colleagues Ana Bracic of Michigan State University …
Cell Rover: Exploring And Augmenting The Inner World Of The Cell
Researchers at the MIT Media Lab have designed a miniature antenna that can operate wirelessly inside of a living cell, opening up possibilities in medical diagnostics and treatment and other scientific processes because of the antenna’s potential for monitoring and even directing cellular activity in real-time. “The most exciting aspect of this research is we …
IBM Study: Supply Chain Leaders Are Investing In AI And Automation To Navigate Supply Chain Uncertainties And Improve Sustainability
A new IBM (NYSE: IBM) Institute for Business Value (IBV) study “Own Your Transformation” unveils how Chief Supply Chain Officers (CSCOs) are navigating significant supply chain challenges brought on by a global COVID-19 pandemic, inflation, climate change and geopolitical events, and how they plan to future-proof their supply chains. The survey* of 1,500 CSCOs and Chief …
Engineers Fabricate A Chip-Free, Wireless Electronic “Skin”
Wearable sensors are ubiquitous thanks to wireless technology that enables a person’s glucose concentrations, blood pressure, heart rate, and activity levels to be transmitted seamlessly from sensor to smartphone for further analysis. Most wireless sensors today communicate via embedded Bluetooth chips that are themselves powered by small batteries. But these conventional chips and power sources …
Researchers Discover Major Roadblock In Alleviating Network Congestion
When users want to send data over the internet faster than the network can handle, congestion can occur — the same way traffic congestion snarls the morning commute into a big city. Computers and devices that transmit data over the internet break the data down into smaller packets and use a special algorithm to decide …