artificial intelligence

For decades, scientists have found that pulse oximeters, devices that estimate blood-oxygen saturation, can be affected by a person’s skin color. In 2021, the FDA issued a warning about this limitation of pulse oximeters. The agency says…

It’s Tuesday night. In front of your house sits a large blue bin, full of newspaper, cardboard, bottles, cans, foil take-out trays, and empty yogurt containers. You may feel virtuous, thinking you’re doing your part to reduce waste. But…

In one example of the IC’s successful use of AI, after exhausting all other avenues—from human spies to signals intelligence—the US was able to find an unidentified WMD research and development facility in a large Asian country by…

It does seem to help him grow up, or to become more emboldened.Hayward: He does become more responsible. If you have kids, you do become more responsible. It makes you grow up. And I don't want to get into spoilers, but it also makes him…

But it calls itself a person.Person and human are two very different things. Human is a biological term. It is not a human and it knows it's not a human.It's a very strange entity you're describing because the entity is bound by…

Now head of the nonprofit Distributed AI Research, Gebru hopes that going forward people focus on human welfare, not robot rights. Other AI ethicists have said that they’ll no longer discuss conscious or superintelligent AI at all.“Quite…

The uproar caused by Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer who believes that one of the company’s most sophisticated chat programs, Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) is sapient, has had a curious element: Actual AI ethics…

However, as in the Amazon, identifying problem areas only gets you so far if there aren’t enough resources to act on those findings. The Nature Conservancy uses its AI model to inform conversations with land managers about potential…

Microsoft just showed how artificial intelligence could find its way into many software applications—by writing code on the fly.At the Microsoft Build developer conference today, the company’s chief technology officer, Kevin Scott,…

Ng’s current efforts are focused on his company Landing AI, which built a platform called LandingLens to help manufacturers improve visual inspection with computer vision. He has also become something of an evangelist for what he…