The next blockbuster drug could be developed with help from machine-learning techniques that are rapidly spreading from AI research to pharmacology labs. Deep Genomics, a Canadian company that uses machine learning to trace potential genetic causes for
2018-11-30
Lung cancer is the deadliest of all cancers, and not just because it’s the most common variant of the disease. Nearly 80 percent of patients will die within five years of diagnosis, according to the American Lung Association, largely because most people
2018-11-29
Intuit, the company behind Mint, QuickBooks and TurboTax, traditionally focused on serving individuals and small businesses. But over the course of the last few years, it noticed that there is a large and growing group of freelancers, whose tax situation is
2018-11-29
As director of Microsoft’s Building 99 research lab in Redmond, Washington, Eric Horvitz gave each of his employees a copy of David McCullough’sThe Wright Brothers. “I said to them, ‘Please read every word of this book,’” Horvitz says, tapping the
2018-11-28
Most car owners know what it’s like to hear a new clink or grinding noise coming from the engine and wonder how costly the fix will be. Startup OtoSense is working with major automakers on software that could give cars their own sense of hearing to
2018-11-28
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the future for improving customer experience, according to home appliances manufacturer Fisher & Paykel. As a result, the New Zealand-based company is following up its cloud computing overhaul by looking into implementing both
2018-11-28
Here at The Human OS, we are slightly obsessed with matchups between artificial intelligence and doctors. In many experiments (though not yet in many clinics), AI systems are showing great promise in diagnosing diseases, analyzing medical images, and
2018-11-27
News headlines might not be the only things that are fake in the future. Powerful machine-learning techniques (see “The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI”) are making it increasingly easy to manipulate or generate realistic video and audio, and to
2018-11-27
Financial institutions turning to artificial intelligence for data mining, cost savings 29 min ago (…) BB&T Corp. has a well-earned reputation for being deliberate when it comes to adopting technological advances. That’s why BB&T executives’ enthusiasm
2018-11-26
