As many as one in five people age 65 or older experience “mild cognitive impairment” — a condition marked by a slight decline in memory, language, or thought. Affected individuals may be prone to forgetting appointments or losing the thread of
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This article is also available in Japanese and Simplified Chinese. Gengo.ai has assembled a wealth of resources for machine learning and natural language processing activities. In our previous articles, we explained why datasets are such an integral part of
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President Donald Trump reportedly spends his nights alone in the White House, watching TV news and yelling at the screen. He wakes up early each morning to watch more television and tweet his anger to the world … or Mika Brzezinski … or CNN. He takes time
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It’s a scene many of you may remember from your lessons at driving school: a ball rolls onto the street from between two parked cars. What’s the most likely thing that will happen next? All of us, expecting a child to run out from between the cars a few
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A recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has made it very clear that drastic, immediate cuts to greenhouse gas emissions are needed to limit global warming to 1.5° C. With the absence of a technological silver bullet, this requires
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Language, which clearly played an important role in human evolution, has long been considered a hallmark of human intelligence, and when Barbara Grosz started working on problems in artificial intelligence (AI) in the 1970s, it was the litmus test for
2019-03-06
Business |Is Ethical A.I. Even Possible? Supported by Is Ethical A.I. Even Possible? Image Building ethical artificial intelligence is an enormously complex task. It gets even harder when stakeholders realize that ethics are in the eye of the
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Artificial Intelligence is shaping our future. Several big organizations are working on AI and many small companies are incorporating it into their products or services. However, at a Google event, Andrew Moore, the vice president of Google Cloud said that
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Big data has met its match. In field after field, the ability to collect data has exploded—in biology, with its burgeoning databases of genomes and proteins; in astronomy, with the petabytes flowing from sky surveys; in social science, tapping millions of
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