Ohio Reforms Regulations With AI
Ohio state is employing AI to reform state regulative landscape – the algorithm will analyze the Ohio Revised Code (ORC) and the Ohio Administrative Code (OAC) and help identify redundant regulations. State governor office representative Joshua Eck shared that Ohio must be the first state…
MasterCard Uses AI To Prevent Fraud In Healthcare
The vice president of the Healthcare, Cyber & Intelligence at MasterCard Beth Griffin has revealed, during the PYMNTS Masterclass interview, that company’s AI-empowered Fraud Detection System is already helping to reduce the numbers of fraud cases in healthcare claims. According to Beth Griffin, in the…
AI-Empowered Robots Help Children With Autism Disorders Learn
Researchers from the University of Southern California have presented AI-empowered socially assistive robotic solution to help children with autism spectrum disorders. In the article “Modeling engagement in long-term, in-home socially assistive robot interventions for children with autism spectrum disorders” published in journal Science Robotics on…
IBM and Microsoft Sign Vatican’s Call For AI Ethics
Microsoft and IBM have joined the Vatican’s pledge for ethical use of artificial intelligence and became the first technology industry sponsors for Pope Francis’ Project, reported Reuters on February 28. Vatican has presented the document in a workshop titled “The ‘Good’ Algorithm? Artificial Intelligence: Ethics,…
Shanghai Police Uses AI-Powered Helmets For Fever Screening
Shenzhen-based Kuang-Chi Technology has provided AI-powered smart helmets to help Chinese police and epidemic units to screen citizen for fever in the midst of coronavirus outbreak, reported South China Morning Post on February 28. Smart helmets N901 made from ultra light meta materials are equipped…
MIT Lists 3 Biohacking Technologies To Change Lives in 2020
MIT Technology Review published annual list of breakthrough technologies that will change our lives in the upcoming years, and 3 biohacking related technologies made it TOP10: hyper-personalized medicine, anti-aging drugs and AI-generated drugs. MIT team shared that there are already available solutions for novel drugs…
Musicians Open Every Possible MIDI Melody Combination
Two musicians fight for creative freedom and against copyright lawsuits by copyrighting every possible MIDI melody combination. Programmer-musician and copyright attorney Damien Riehl and musician-programmer Noah Rubin, have developed an algorithm that recorded every possible 8-note, 12-beat melody combination. After they have algorithmically identified that…
AI Expands Breast Cancer Screening
Researchers from the University of Waterloo have developed a relative low-cost AI-based device that can assist breast cancer screening, without exposing millions of women to radiation. The AI-powered device with sensors analyses microwaves from the breasts’ tissue composition and is able to detect anomalies, in…
Amazon Implements AI-Enhanced Customer Service Chatbots
Amazon has announced that it starts to use artificial intelligence for the customer service chatbots, reads the company blog post from February 25: “We’ve begun testing two neural-network-based systems, one that can handle common customer service requests automatically and one that helps customer service agents…
AI Uses Social Media Data To Predict Suicide Attempts
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with Georgia Tech, is using data from social media platforms, like Reddit or Twitter, to strengthen the AI suicide predictions accuracy. Since current statistics is often delayed by years, the first step is to provide…
