Supercomputer Emulator: AI’s New Role in Science
Microsoft’s head of AI4Science sees machine learning partially supplanting simulation Artificial intelligence has become an indispensable tool in many scientists’ lives, such that its use by researchers now has its own moniker—AI4Science—used by conferences and laboratories. Last month, Microsoft announced its own AI4Science initiative,…
Printing Circuits on Nanomagnets Yields a New Breed of AI
LANL researchers have fabricated AI algorithms out of physical hardware—pioneering a new form of analog computing At the intersection of engineered materials and computation, spin-glass systems comprise a disordered system of nanomagnets arising from random interactions and competition between two…
AI-Assisted Pathology Ready For Mainstream
Australian system promises tenfold productivity increase Laboratory scientists and clinical pathologists currently spend hours in darkened rooms analyzing and testing tissue and fluids of patients for evidence of disease. Unlike blood tests, which are performed using automated analyzers, pathology samples are subject…
AI Can’t Take Over Everyone’s Jobs Soon (If Ever)
Models are still expensive to run, hard to use, and frequently wrong “Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones?” This is one of several questions posed by the Future of Life Institute’s recent call for a pause on “giant AI…
Let’s Shape AI Before AI Shapes Us
It’s time to have a global conversation about how AI should be developed ILLUSTRATION: ANDRZEJ WOJCICKI/CORBIS Artificial intelligence is like a beautiful suitor who repeatedly brings his admirer to the edge of consummation only to vanish, dashing hopes and leaving an…
SHIPT’S ALGORITHM SQUEEZED GIG WORKERS. THEY FOUGHT BACK When their pay suddenly dropped, delivery drivers audited their employer
N EARLY 2020, gig workers for the app-based delivery company Shipt noticed something strange about their paychecks. The company, which had been acquired by Target in 2017 for US $550 million, offered same-day delivery from local stores. Those deliveries were made by Shipt…
U.S. and EU Announce Plans to Develop AI Standards
The two will have to navigate thorny differences of opinion on issues like data governance, however In late January, civil servants in the United States and European Union promised that the two would join forces and support development of AI models in…
Using AI to Make Better AI
New approach brings faster, AI-optimized AI within reach for image recognition and other applications Since 2017, AI researchers have been using AI neural networks to help design better and faster AI neural networks. Applying AI in pursuit of better AI has, to date,…
AI and Machine Learning Salaries Drop
But average U.S. tech salaries climbed nearly 7 percent in 2021 Overall, 2021 was a good year for tech professionals in the United States, with the average salary up 6.9 percent to US $104,566, according to online recruitment firm Dice. Dice…
The Meeting of the Minds That Launched AI
There’s more to this group photo from a 1956 AI workshop than you’d think The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, held from 18 June through 17 August of 1956, is widely considered the event that kicked off AI as…