When it comes to reading emotions on people’s faces, artificial intelligence still lags behind human observers, according to a new study involving UCL. The difference was particularly pronounced when it came to spontaneous displays of emotion, according to the findings published in PLOS…
Vaccines are among the most powerful weapons we have for preventing infectious disease. In the 1950s, hundreds of thousands of Americans were infected by measles every year. But by 2015, after decades of vaccination, a mere 191 cases were reported. Unfortunately, most vaccines…
From Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to Karel Čapek’s Rossum’s Universal Robots to the Terminator series and beyond, science fiction has historically cautioned scientists and general audiences alike against allowing artificial intelligence to outpace ethical responsibility. That said, while caution, ethics, and responsibility are all key components to the scientific…
There’s one sure thing you can say about data science — it’s a lot of things. Data science is not necessarily one single discipline, skillset or methodology. This is why data science is always said to be an ‘interdisciplinary branch’ of science that…
When businesses as influential and enormous as Microsoft and Google are rearranging their corporate structures around AI, it’s clear the field is an important one. Artificial intelligence development is the next logical step in a world where large amounts of data are…
