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Google AI can help doctors predict when patients might die
By Greg Sandoval From Business Insider Google has a new algorithm that can quickly sift through thousands of digital documents in a patient’s health record to find important information, Bloomberg reported. This enables the technology in some cases to help…
IBM’s machine argues, pretty convincingly, with humans
By Dave Lee From BBC On a stage in San Francisco, IBM’s Project Debater spoke, listened and rebutted a human’s arguments in what was described as a groundbreaking display of artificial intelligence. The machine drew from a library of “hundreds…
Google Assistant fired a gun
Google Assistant fired a gun: We need to talk By Cherlynn Low From engadget A timely video raises urgent questions about setting boundaries for AI. For better or worse, Google Assistant can do it all. From mundane tasks like turning…
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Fragmentation in self-driving cars will eventually be a problem
By Roberto Baldwin From engadget Get ready for more partnerships. If you remember the ’80s, you were probably amazed that you could walk up to a computer, type the following in BASIC and something would happen: It seemed like magic…
China’s people surveillance AI startup tops $4.5B valuation
By Simon Alvarez From Teslarati Chinese AI startup SenseTime, a company that develops people surveillance software for the country’s law enforcement, recently finished a new funding round worth $600 million. The latest round, led by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, raised…
Snapdragon 700 brings AI acceleration to lower-cost phones
By Jon Fingas From engadget Qualcomm wants to bridge the gap between high-end and budget devices. There’s long been a conspicuous feature gap between Qualcomm’s mobile processors: You typically have to choose between a do-it-all beast like theSnapdragon 845 or…
Gadget of the week
This robo-bug can improvise its walk like a real insect By Devin Coldewey From TechCrunch There are plenty of projects out there attempting to replicate the locomotion of insects, but one thing that computers and logic aren’t so good at…
We went for a ride in a Huawei smartphone-controlled, self-driving Porsche
By Brian Heater From Techcrunch Huawei didn’t have a new phone to show at MWC this year, so it did what any good smartphone maker would: it put the Mate 10 Pro in an autonomous car and drove it directly…
This AI therapist is helping me get over my ex
BY MONICA CHIN From Mashable Many of us could use a professional to talk to. But therapists are expensive, and it’s hard to get an appointment. Luckily, artificial intelligence is here to save us. A team of UCLA researchers claim…
The UK government has developed AI so powerful it can block 99.99% of ISIS propaganda videos before they reach the internet
By Kieran Corcoran From Business Insider The British government has developed AI technology which can scan videos and work out whether they contain extremist content. It gave £600,000 ($834,000) of public money to tech firm ASI Data Science to build…
