• Zipline Expands Its Medical Delivery Drones Across East Africa

    Doctors order by app and wait for medical supplies to drop from the skyIllustration: MCKIBILLO Illustration: MCKIBILLOWhile
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    Servicepour considerable resources into finding ways of using drones to deliver such things as shoes and dog treats, Zipline has been saving lives in Rwanda since October 2016 with drones that deliver blood. Zipline’s autonomous fixed-wing drones now form an integral part of Rwanda’s medical-supply infrastructure, transporting
  • Canada Is Using AI to Study ‘Suicide-Related Behavior’ on Social Media

    This month the Canadian government is launching a pilot program to research and predict suicide rates in the country using artificial intelligence. The pilot will mine Canadians’ social media posts “in order to identify patterns associated with users who discuss suicide-related behavior,” according to a recently…Read more...
  • Virtual twin in ten minutes

    Avatars -- virtual persons: A new system makes it possible to practice and improve motion sequences by providing individualized feedback in real time. The system is embodied by a virtual person acting as a coach. In addition, users see themselves as avatars -- virtual copies of themselves in the mirror of the virtual room. The creation of such personalized avatars used to take several days, but researchers have now developed an accelerated process.
  • Building AI systems that work is still hard

    Building AI systems that work is still hard
     Even with the support of AI frameworks like TensorFlow or OpenAI, artificial intelligence still requires deep knowledge and understanding compared to a mainstream web developer. If you have built a working prototype, you are probably the smartest guy in the room. Congratulations, you are a member of a very exclusive club. Read More
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  • Researchers can now make neighborhood voting predictions from Google Street View images

    Researchers can now make neighborhood voting predictions from Google Street View images
     In a sign that computers will be able to perform image analysis as fluently as text analysis, a group of Stanford-based researchers were able to make accurate predictions about neighborhood voting patterns based on millions of pictures collected from Google Street View, reports The New York Times. While other academic projects have used artificial intelligence to mine Google Street View for… Read More