by Chris Tachibana | Apr 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
In his new book, Future Minds: The Rise of Intelligence from the Big Bang to the End of the Universe, Richard Yonck asks: Is intelligence the natural result of progress? Or an inevitable property of the universe? If you’re a reader of Stephen Hawking, Richard’s books...
by Chris Tachibana | Mar 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
Each day, John Roach writes in Microsoft’s AI blog, the biomedical literature adds about 4000 new studies. Many papers have information on genomics, treatments, and responses to therapy that would be useful to oncologists and cancer researchers—if they could find...
by Jane Hu | Feb 20, 2019 | Events, Past Events
Can a computer ace a high school biology exam? What about navigate a typical household, or play Pictionary? At the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), researchers are working on these questions, among others. CEO Oren Etzioni gave us an overview of...
by Chris Tachibana | Oct 3, 2018 | ScienceWire
What do our web searches reveal about our health? In Stanford Magazine, Jonathan Rabinovitz has a piece provocatively titled, “Your computer may know you have Parkinson’s. Shall it tell you?” about future tools that might use our online activity to suggest...
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 3, 2017 | ScienceWire
What comes after Siri and self-driving cars? Richard Yonck posits that the next step could be technology that recognizes human feelings. His new book, Heart of the Machine: Our Future in a World of Artificial Emotional Intelligence explores the rewards and pitfalls of...
