All stories by Ben
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Self-supervised learning is the future of AI
Despite the huge contributions of deep learning to the field of artificial intelligence, there’s something very wrong with ...
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How AI can determine which coronavirus patients require hospitalization
As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread across the world, governments and hospitals are being overwhelmed ...
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Human Compatible: A timely warning on the future of AI
The late Stephen Hawking called artificial intelligence the biggest threat to humanity. But Hawking, albeit a revered physicist, ...
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3 ways IoT is disrupting insurance
Insurance is one of the oldest practices of human societies, practiced even before the first coins were minted. Chinese and ...
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Why AI might be the most effective weapon we have to fight COVID-19
If not the most deadly, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is one of the most contagious diseases to have hit our green planet ...
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Understanding the limits of convolutional neural networks — one of AI's greatest achievements
After a prolonged winter, artificial intelligence is experiencing a scorching summer mainly thanks to advances in deep learning ...
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Hybrid AI systems are quietly solving the problems of deep learning
Deep learning, the main innovation that has renewed interest in artificial intelligence in the past years, has helped solve ...
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This stance-detecting AI will help us fact-check fake news
Fighting fake news has become a growing problem in the past few years, and one that begs for a solution involving artificial ...
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Deep learning advances are boosting computer vision — but there's still clear limits
This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. Since ...
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New discoveries in neuroscience show what’s right and wrong with AI
Two separate studies, one by UK-based artificial intelligence lab DeepMind and the other by researchers in Germany and Greece, ...
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3 ways AI is transforming the insurance industry
As AI, big data, and the internet of things (IoT) find their way into every aspect of our lives, many industries are undergoing ...
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Google's Meena is impressive, but AI chatbots are still 'cheap imitations' of humans
This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial ...
