Just a few years ago, smart cities, a catch-all phrase for connecting urban infrastructure like parking meters and stoplights online, had major buzz. The idea was to use machine learning to crunch data collected across cities to, for example, minimize traffic delays and reduce pollution. But smart city projects haven’t taken off as quickly as expected, […]
The journalist Malcolm Gladwell, on his podcast, “Revisionist History,” devoted a recent episode to his theory of “hiring nihilism.” It is Gladwell’s belief that people are so bad at predicting who will perform well at a given role—especially based on traditional screening criteria such as CVs and candidate interviews—that one should simply concede that all […]
New developments in artificial intelligence may seem trivial compared to recent events like the Capitol riots in which pro-Trump rioters attempted to subvert the election. But 2021 will likely be a big year for A.I., and with a new White House administration soon in place, there may be a clearer set of national A.I. policies […]
Vaccinating the global population against COVID-19 is one of the most immense distribution and logistical challenges humanity has ever faced. Some are hoping that artificial intelligence and blockchain technology can help with the task. “This is about trying to solve the biggest data puzzle of our lifetime,” Jason Kelley, who heads blockchain services for IBM. […]
Happy New Year everyone! A warm welcome back too to my Fortune “Eye on A.I.” partner Jonathan Vanian, who has just returned from paternity leave. Jonathan helped compile the news items, research, and Brain Food sections for this week’s newsletter. I spent some time over the last few weeks reporting a story, which will be […]
Enlarge / Researchers produced a graphic representation of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory narrative, with layers for major subplots of each story, and lines connecting the key people, places and institutions within and among those layers. (credit: UCLA) There’s rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we’re […]
London A.I. firm DeepMind has released new information concerning an algorithm which could learn how to play games in superhuman levels–even if it does not begin knowing the principles of this sport, an accomplishment that the company claims is a major step toward producing A.I. systems which could deal with complex and uncertain real world […]
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With limited tools of COVID-19 vaccines currently available, countries are scrambling to pick who must be first in line to get the shots. However, oftentimes, that issue has been settled dependent on broadly tagged groupings of at-risk inhabitants, for example”the older” or even”essential workers” While it might sound easy, this strategy is short-sighted, as it dismisses the […]
To receive it delivered {} your in-box, then sign here. Hello and welcome to this Previous “Eye on A.I.” of 2020! I spent immersed at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) seminar, the yearly gathering of high academic A.I. research workers. It is almost always a fantastic place for taking the heartbeat of this area. […]