Tech & Society
China's AI ROI: AI May Add $600 Billion to China's Economy by 2030
China’s investment in AI business, infrastructure, and research could pay off big over the next decade.
Medicine
Science
Bad Machine Learning Makes Bad Science: Is Machine Learning Driving a Scientific Reproducibility Crisis?
A recent workshop highlighted the impact of poorly designed AI models in medicine, security, software engineering, and other disciplines.
Machine Learning Research
Protein Families Deciphered: Machine Learning Categorizes Proteins Based on Their Functions
Convolutional neural networks separate proteins into functional families without considering their shapes.
AI Careers
AI Jobs Grow in Pharma: Drug Companies are Hiring More Machine Learning Engineers Than Ever
Pharmaceutical companies in several countries are hiring machine learning engineers at increasing rates.
Tech & Society
Standout Startups: The Top 100 AI Startups off 2022
AI startups are creating high value across a wide variety of industries. CB Insights, which tracks tech startups, published the latest edition of the AI 100, its annual list of 100 notable AI startups.
Science
Managing Medical Uncertainty: How Hospitals Use AI to Protect Patients
Hospitals across the United States are relying on AI to keep patients safe. Doctors are using a variety of machine learning systems to assess the risk that a given patient will suffer complications.
Tech & Society
Predicting the Next Pandemic: Using AI to Predict the Next Pandemic
Odds are that the next mass contagion will jump to humans from animals. But which species? Virus hunters are using learning algorithms to learn which animals are likely to carry microbes that pose a danger to humans.
Tech & Society
AI Enters the Radiology Department: ChestLink, an AI X-Ray Tool Approved by European Officials
The European Union approved for clinical use an AI system that recognizes normal chest X-rays. ChestLink is the first autonomous computer vision system to earn the European Economic Area’s CE mark for medical devices...
Science
The Many Faces of Genetic Illness: Face recognition identifies childhood genetic diseases.
People with certain genetic disorders share common facial features. Doctors are using computer vision to identify such syndromes in children so they can get early treatment.
Interviews & Essays
Alexei Efros: Learning from the ground up
Things are really starting to get going in the field of AI. After many years (decades?!) of focusing on algorithms, the AI community is finally ready to accept the central role of data and the high-capacity models that are capable of taking advantage of this data.
Tech & Society
Transformers Take Over: Transformers Applied to Vision, Language, Video, and More
In 2021, transformers were harnessed to discover drugs, recognize speech, and paint pictures — and much more.
Machine Learning Research
Recognizing Autism: AI research can help identify autism early in children.
Classical machine learning techniques could help children with autism receive treatment earlier in life. Researchers led by Ishanu Chattopadhyay at University of Chicago developed a system that classified autism in young children based on data collected during routine checkups.