Is that funny? Microsoft develops AI that can assess comedy

Did you hear the one about the technology company that developed an artificial intelligence platform to assess laughter and judge comedy? Microsoft has added another type of artificial intelligence to its expanding array of machine intelligence systems (among other ventures as profiled in the article "How Microsoft’s CEO Nadella has steered the company to success"). […]






 
A Peek Inside Andrew Ng’s “AI Transformation Playbook”

Andrew Ng is touting his new, free, AI Transformation Playbook. The 12 page online document is a unique package of artificial intelligence tricks aimed at the increasing number of CEOs who want to transform their companies by introducing AI technologies. The AI mastermind and founder of Landing.ai released the playbook today. Ng’s playbook is built […]






 
Researchers develop AI platform to detect microscopic bronchi

Researchers at Asan Medical Center (AMC) have developed a method that uses artificial intelligence technology to quickly and accurately identify microscopic bronchi in the lungs hard to detect even through precise medical images. The hospital expects that the new technology will help detect severe lung diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) […]






 
Twitter + Citizen Science + AI = improved flood data collection

Researchers from the University of Dundee are combining Twitter, citizen science and cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to develop an early-warning system for flood-prone communities. Dr Roger Wang and his colleagues from the University’s School of Science and Engineering have shown how AI can be used to extract data from Twitter and crowdsourced information from […]