Compute Power Concentration Creating a Digital Divide in AI Research, Study Finds
By AI Trends Staff
In the era of deep learning, cloud compute power is being concentrated in the hands of elite universities, at the expense...
Update: Pandemic Driving More AI Business; Researchers Fighting Fraud ‘Cure’ Posts
By AI Trends Staff
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic around AI has many shades, from driving higher rates of IT spending on AI, to...
Human Touch Keeps AI From Getting Out of Touch
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor
AI is charting new ways to become out of touch, potentially.
Maybe the frame of mind around agile, sometimes spontaneous, software...
Researcher Interview: Ziv Epstein, Research Associate, MIT Media Lab
Researcher of AI and Social Media Has Ideas on Reducing Social Media Misinformation
Zivvy Epstein is a PhD student in the Human Dynamics group of the...
Getting AI to Learn Like a Baby is Goal of Self-Supervised Learning
By AI Trends Staff
Scientists are working on creating better AI that learns through self-supervision, with the pinnacle being AI that could learn like a...
AI is Being Applied to Fight Against Climate Change; How to Get Involved
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor
As wildfires rage in the west and the density of smoke is blocking out the sun in many areas,...
Scientists Imagine Worldwide Real-Time Dream Reporting Assisted by AI
By AI Trends Staff
Scientists are developing AI tools to help analyze dreams, in the hopes of better understanding where dreams come from and helping...
Feds Investing $1B to Fund 12 New AI Institutes
By AI Trends Staff
The federal government is increasing its investment in AI research, with the announcement on August 26 of over $1 billion of...
Argonne National Labs Using AI To Predict Battery Cycles
By Allison Proffitt, Editorial Director, AI Trends
Thanks to the cost reductions that have come from global electric vehicle adoption, lithium ion batteries now have...
Covid-19 AI Update: NIH Developing Imaging Tools
By AI Trends Staff
Among the latest developments around the use of AI to battle the Covid-19 pandemic, the National Institutes for Health (NIH) has...