<span class="vcard">John Desmond</span>
John Desmond

How AI is Helping to Prevent Physician Burnout

So much of a physician’s workload includes repetitive, tedious tasks involved in researching diagnoses and analyzing patient data and imaging. On top of increasingly demanding administrative and regulatory burdens and electronic health records (EHR) hassles, it’s no wonder physicians are burning out in record numbers. Experts in artificial intelligence (AI)—a form of machine learning in […]

Scientists Develop AI System That Can See What You Are Thinking

A group of Japanese computer scientists has developed a new AI system that can visualize human thoughts. The technology can “see” the human thought or convert them into pictures. It’s always frightening to know that another person can read your thoughts. Imagine the case where technology can see what you are thinking! How It Works – […]

Here Are 4 Predictions for Conversational AI in 2018

As marketers look into 2018, they see that the conversational AI landscape is primed for increased consumer adoption. In fact, in a recent survey, nine out of 10 people said they prefer messaging directly with a brand. This year, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon all leaned into messaging and conversation. In 2018, the big four will make conversational […]

Privacy and AI Self-Driving Cars

By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Do you care about the privacy of your data? Most of us do, at least when we are asked a question as bluntly as whether we care about the privacy of our data, but the reality of our behavior frequently seems to belie how much we really […]

How to Begin Integrating AI into Data Center Operations

Rich Rogers, a senior vice president of product and engineering at Hitachi Vantara, envisions a data center in which AI-driven management software (some or all of it cloud-based) will monitor and control IT and facilities infrastructure, as well as applications, seamlessly and completely across single or multiple sites. Compute, power, storage, networking and cooling operations will […]

Feature Labs Launches Out of MIT to Accelerate Machine Learning

Feature Labs, a startup with roots in research begun at MIT, officially launched today with a set of tools to help data scientists build machine learning algorithms more quickly. Co-founder and CEO Max Kanter says the company has developed a way to automate “feature engineering,” which is often a time consuming and manual process for […]

San Jose Relying on Planning, Collaboration to be Smartest City

The San Jose Smart City Vision is a plan that uses technology and data-driven decision-making to promote safety, sustainability, economic opportunity and quality of life for its constituents. The California city’s endgame is to become the most innovative city in America by 2020. However, to get there, the city needs some internal planning — and […]

Socio-Behavioral Conversational Computing for AI Self-Driving Cars

By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider With the advent of ride sharing, passengers are increasingly interacting with the hired or rented driver of the car. In the past, we were used to getting into a taxi and other than mumbling where we wanted to be taken, the actual conversation was usually either nonexistent […]

AI Diagnostics Move Into The Clinic; Algorithms Assist Specialists

True to form, artificial intelligence continues to equal and even surpass doctors in the prediction and diagnosis of condition after condition. Most of this work, however, has occurred in carefully controlled laboratory experiments, with clean databases and images acquired and reviewed by experts. Now, companies are making a concerted push to bring AI into real healthcare […]

AI Engaged in Battle To Help Identify Fake News

Fake news is fueled in part by advances in technology — from bots that automatically fabricate headlines and entire stories to computer software that synthesizes Donald Trump’s voice and makes him read tweets to a new video editing app that makes it possible to create authentic-looking videos in which one person’s face is stitched onto another person’s body. But technology, in […]