Newswise: Using artificial intelligence to enrich digital maps. “A model invented by researchers at MIT and Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) that uses satellite imagery to tag road features in digital maps could help improve GPS navigation. Showing drivers more details about their routes can often help them navigate in unfamiliar locations. Lane counts, for instance, can enable a GPS system to warn drivers of diverging or merging lanes. Incorporating information about parking spots can help drivers plan ahead, while mapping bicycle lanes can help cyclists negotiate busy city streets. Providing updated information on road conditions can also improve planning for disaster relief.”
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Neowin: An AI epidemiologist was among the first to break news of the coronavirus outbreak in China
Neowin: An AI epidemiologist was among the first to break news of the coronavirus outbreak in China. “Near the end of the first week of January, news of a deadly flu outbreak in Wuhan, China started coming to mainstream media. The disease that started out from Wuhan has now spread to mainland China and to other parts of the world with confirmed cases in the United States and potential threats in the United Kingdom and other countries. Among the first reporters was BlueDot, which started notifying its customers of an impending outbreak as early as December 31.”
CoinWorld360: Brave New Coin’s new tool uses artificial intelligence to track emotions of the crypto community on Twitter
CoinWorld360: Brave New Coin’s new tool uses artificial intelligence to track emotions of the crypto community on Twitter. “Brave New Coin (BNC), a New Zealand research company specializing in blockchains, has introduced a new system for assessing the emotions of the Bitcoin community based on Twitter messages. According to the BNC, the new Twitter Sentiment assessment system analyzes over 34 million Twitter feeds related to the bitcoin every week. The firm uses artificial intelligence algorithms that look for entries containing the words bitcoin, $BTC and BTC and others.”
Boing Boing: Very fun algorithm guesses your name with surprising accuracy
Boing Boing: Very fun algorithm guesses your name with surprising accuracy. “Nathan Yau created this fun and fascinating name guessing algorithm. You select ‘male’ or ‘female,’ the decade you were born, and then type in the first letter of your name. “
Scientific American: AI Isn’t a Solution to All Our Problems
Scientific American: AI Isn’t a Solution to All Our Problems. “From the esoteric worlds of predictive health care and cybersecurity to Google’s e-mail completion and translation apps, the impacts of AI are increasingly being felt in our everyday lived experience. The way it has crepted into our lives in such diverse ways and its proficiency in low-level knowledge shows that AI is here to stay. But like any helpful new tool, there are notable flaws and consequences to blindly adapting it. AI is a tool—not a cure-all to modern problems.”
EurekAlert: New research uses physiological cues to distinguish computer-generated faces from human ones
EurekAlert: New research uses physiological cues to distinguish computer-generated faces from human ones. “‘Digital human face detection in video sequences via a physiological signal analysis,’ a paper published today in the Journal of Electronic Imaging (JEI), presents a viable, innovative way to discern between natural humans (NAT) and CG faces within the context of multimedia forensics, using individuals’ heart rate as the discriminating feature.”
TechCrunch: Facebook speeds up AI training by culling the weak
TechCrunch: Facebook speeds up AI training by culling the weak. “Training an artificial intelligence agent to do something like navigate a complex 3D world is computationally expensive and time-consuming. In order to better create these potentially useful systems, Facebook engineers derived huge efficiency benefits from, essentially, leaving the slowest of the pack behind.”
