HUMANIZING MEDICINE WITH AI – ENABLING DOCS TO SPEAK WITH THEIR PATIENTS
Doctors who used some kind of document support spent more time interacting directly with patients. That’s a dynamic LexiconAI hopes to capitalize on using GPU-infused AI. Source: nvidia.com
MIT STUDY SHOWS HOW MUCH DRIVING FOR UBER OR LYFT SUCKS
Ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft are delivering pitiful levels of take-home pay to the hundreds of thousands of US independent contractors providing their own vehicles and driving skills to deliver the core service, according to an MIT CEEPR study examining the economics of the two app platforms. Source: techcrunch.com
UNDERSTANDING WORD VECTORS IN NLP
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how word vectors work. This tutorial assumes a good amount of Python knowledge, but even if you’re not a Python expert, you should be able to follow along and make small changes to the examples without too much trouble. Source: github.com
AI CHEATS AT OLD ATARI GAMES BY FINDING UNKNOWN BUGS IN THE CODE
Artificial intelligence is incredibly good at playing video games. But a recent experiment ended up with an AI agent that beat ‘80s classic Q*bert in a way no one has ever seen before. Source: theverge.com
THE MAN WHO BOTTLED EVOLUTION
Thirty years ago, MSU researcher Richard Lenski added his now-famous bacteria to 12 inaugural flasks, a process he and his team of lab technicians and students have been repeating daily ever since. Source: msu.edu
HERE’S WHY OUR POSTWAR “LONG PEACE” IS FRAGILE
Have mechanisms like democratization really fostered an enduring trend of peaceful co-existence, or is this just a statistical fluke—a normal interlude of relative calm before another global-scale conflagration? Source: nautil.us
WHY WOMEN CHOOSE DIFFERENTLY AT WORK
What does the most recent data on women’s preferences regarding work tell us? Source: nautil.us
IBM IS SENDING A FLOATING ROBOT HEAD INTO SPACE
Called CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile Companion), the new crew member is about the size of a medicine ball and will work alongside human astronauts in space. The “floating brain” is equipped with IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence technology and is expected to assist astronauts during the European Space Agency’s Horizons mission in June. Source: fortune.com
ASTRONOMERS DETECT EARLIEST EVIDENCE YET OF HYDROGEN IN THE UNIVERSE
MIT and ASU astronomers have detected the earliest signs of hydrogen in the universe, suggesting first stars appeared around 180 million years after the Big Bang. Source: mit.edu
THERE IS ACTUALLY A POINT TO PUTTING A 4G NETWORK ON THE MOON
The Moon is hopefully going to get its first mobile network, thanks to European mobile operator Vodafone and equipment firm Nokia. Source: fortune.com