Brett Lovelace, OSU Marbled murrelets, which are listed as threatened under the federal endangered species act, typically lay their single egg high in a tree on a horizontal limb at least 4 inches in diameter. By APRIL ERHLICH/Oregon Public Broadcasting Artificial intelligence tools are helping Oregon wildlife researchers study hard-to-reach threatened species like the marbled…

Companies such as Accenture, Cognizant Technology and Capgemini have mentioned potential risks in management discussions published in their annual reports and in their conference calls with investors. India’s IT majors including TCS, Infosys, Wipro and HCL Tech are likely to follow suit in their upcoming management discussions. Red flags Cognizant said, “Our use of AI…

CU Medicine develops severe hypoglycemia predictive AI  Researchers from the Faculty of Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CU Medicine) have utilised anonymised big data from the Hospital Authority Data Collaboration Laboratory to develop a new machine learning model that can predict the risk of severe hypoglycemia among older diabetic adults. They analysed…

What if Apple’s voice assistant Siri “was really, really, really good?” That question is at the heart of much of the tech giant’s artificial intelligence (AI) research, according to a report Sunday (May 5) by The Verge reviewing those efforts. For example, a team of Apple researchers has been trying to develop a way to use…

Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett has compared the development of artificial intelligence (AI) to the atomic bomb. Just like that invention, the multibillionaire said Saturday (May 4) at Berkshire’s annual meeting, AI could produce disastrous results for civilization.  “We let a genie out of the bottle when we developed nuclear weapons,” said Buffett, whose comments were reported by The…

US Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall rode in the cockpit of a fighter jet on Friday, which flew over the desert in California and was controlled by artificial intelligence. Last month, Kendall announced his plans to fly in an AI-controlled F-16 to the US Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense panel, while speaking about the future of air warfare…

YouTube Premium subscribers can now try out a new feature called Jump Ahead, which allows them to watch videos faster thanks to artificial intelligence. Here’s What We Know The feature, which has been in testing since March, is now more widely available to Premium subscribers via youtube.com/new. When users double-tap the screen, they will see…

Table of Contents Blockchain analytics company Elliptic said that its researchers have made progress in leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to detect money laundering in Bitcoin. A recent paper detailing this research was co-authored with researchers from the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab. Elliptic revealed a successful identification of illicit proceeds deposited at a cryptocurrency exchange, new…

Oh, if only it were as easy as with Pinocchio. Here it was simple to see when he was telling a lie: after all, his nose grew a little longer each time. In reality, it is much more difficult to recognize lies and it is only understandable that scientist have already for a long time…