Software

DeepMind AI One-Ups Mathematicians At A Calculation Crucial To Computing
Posted in Software on 27th Oct, 2022
by Alex Muller
"A boost in performance would improve a lot of applications."

AI Uses A Scan Of Your Retina To Predict Your Risk Of Heart Disease
Posted in Medicine, Science, Software on 27th Oct, 2022
by Alex Muller
"AI-enabled vasculometry risk prediction is fully automated, low cost, non-invasive, and has the potential for reaching a higher proportion of the population in the community because of 'high street' availability and because blood sampling or are not needed."

How “the Most Advanced Machine Learning Approach” Is Finding New Cancer-causing Mutational Signatures
Posted in Medicine, Software on 14th Oct, 2022
by Alex Muller
Now, with funding from Cancer Grand Challenges, a team of researchers at the University of California San Diego has developed the newest in a suite of tools that’s quickly establishing itself as the best of the best.

Controlling Artificial Intelligence
Posted in Software on 30th Sep, 2022
by Alex Muller
Anthropologist Beth Singler at the University of Cambridge studies our relationship with AI and robotics and believes that we should be more critical of those making decisions about how AI is used.

Pfizer Pays Almost $120 Million For App That Claims To Detect COVID From A Cough
Posted in Medicine, Science, Software on 30th Sep, 2022
by Alex Muller
Pfizer has shelled out nearly US$120 million to acquire a small Australian company claiming to have developed a smartphone app that can accurately diagnose COVID-19 by analysing the sound of a cough.