Science
AI on the Cob: An AI system predicted crop yields.
Deep learning research is harvesting better ways to manage farms. A convolutional neural network predicted corn yields in fields across the U.S. Midwest.
Latest
Tech & Society
A Neural Net in Every Bathroom: A smart toilet uses AI to monitor waste for signs of disease.
It’s time to stop flushing valuable data down the toilet. The Precision Health Toilet, a suite of sensors that attach to an ordinary commode, monitors human waste for input for signs of disease. It identifies individual users by scanning where the sun doesn’t shine.
Machine Learning Research
Moderating the ML Roller Coaster: A technique to avoid double descent in AI
Wait a minute — we added training data, and our model’s performance got worse?! New research offers a way to avoid so-called double descent.
Tech & Society
Workers of the World, Don’t Unite: Computer vision helped workers maintain social distance.
Computer vision is helping construction workers keep their social distance. Smartvid.io, a service that focuses on construction sites, offers a tool that recognizes when workers get too close to each other. The tool sends distancing warnings and reports to construction superintendents.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: AI For Medicine Special! Eric Topol’s Planetary Health System, Discovering Drugs, Diagnosing Heart Disease
This week’s issue of The Batch is all about medical applications of AI. Amid the current pandemic, the marriage of AI and medicine is more urgent than ever. My father is a practicing doctor, and I grew up seeing firsthand how the right...
Letters
Medical Applications of AI
This week’s issue of The Batch is all about medical applications of AI. Amid the current pandemic, the marriage of AI and medicine is more urgent than ever. My father is a practicing doctor, and I grew up seeing firsthand how the right...
Interviews & Essays
A Visionary Doctor Prescribes AI: Dr. Eric Topol makes the case for AI in medicine.
Eric Topol is one of the world’s leading advocates for AI in medicine. Below he shares his insights into the fusion of AI and medicine and advice for machine learning engineers who want to get involved.
Tech & Society
Diagnosis — The Telltale Heart: How a company is using AI to monitor hearth health
The wearable revolution is helping doctors figure out what’s troubling your ticker — thanks to deep learning. The problem: Arrhythmias, a range of conditions in which the heart beats too fast, too slow, or erratically, can cause heart attack or stroke.
Tech & Society
Prognosis — Early Warning for Sepsis: AI can provide an early warning for sepsis.
An AI-driven alarm system helps rescue patients before infections become fatal. The problem: Machine learning can spot patterns in electronic health data indicating where a patient’s condition is headed that may be too subtle for doctors and nurses to catch.
Science
Treatment — The Elusive Molecule: How deep learning could speed up drug discovery
Will deep learning discover new medicines? Startups — and big-pharma partners — are betting on it. The problem: In theory, there’s a pharmacological cure for just about any ailment. In practice, discovering those therapies takes years and billions of dollars.
Tech & Society
Data — From Patient to Health Record: AI automatically fills out electronic health records.
Doctors are overwhelmed by clerical work. Healthcare-savvy voice assistants are picking up the slack.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Antiviral Resources, Robot Superstars, AI for Scientists, 3D Data Augmentation, BatchNorm Demystified
Last week, I asked readers to tell me what they’re doing to address the Covid-19 pandemic. Many of you wrote to say you’re taking actions such as shopping for neighbors, making masks, and creating posters that promote Covid-safe practices...