Tag: Artificial intelligence
Predicting the coronavirus outbreak: How AI connects the dots to warn...
Vandana Janeja, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Canadian artificial intelligence firm BlueDot has been in the news in recent weeks for warning about the new...
Millions of burnt trees and rusted cars: Post-disaster cleanup is expensive,...
Sybil Derrible, University of Illinois at Chicago; Juyeong Choi, Florida State University, and Nazli Yesiller, California Polytechnic State University
The most destructive and costliest wildfire...
Why a computer will never be truly conscious
Subhash Kak, Oklahoma State University
Many advanced artificial intelligence projects say they are working toward building a conscious machine, based on the idea that brain...
Facial analysis AI is being used in job interviews – it...
Ivan Manokha, University of Oxford
Artificial intelligence and facial analysis software is becoming commonplace in job interviews. The technology, developed by US company HireVue, analyses...
The future of work will still include plenty of jobs
Wayne Simpson, University of Manitoba
There is now widespread anxiety over the future of work, often accompanied by calls for a basic income to protect...
Why is the Pentagon interested in UFOs?
Iain Boyd, University of Michigan
U.S. Navy pilots and sailors won’t be considered crazy for reporting unidentified flying objects, under new rules meant to encourage...
Retailers like Walmart are embracing robots – here’s how workers can...
Beth Humberd, University of Massachusetts Lowell and Scott F. Latham, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Walmart recently said it plans to deploy robots to scan shelves,...
Artificial intelligence may take your job, so political leaders need to...
Alan Montague, RMIT University; Alan Nankervis, RMIT University; John Burgess, RMIT University; Nuttawuth Muenjohn, RMIT University; Ros Cameron, Australian Institute of Business, and Timothy...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
