Energy-Saving AI Is Coming for Your Office Thermostat
UC Berkeley’s Costas Spanos thinks you should track your workers and hand over the lights and temperature controls to artificial intelligence.
Coronavirus Disrupts Social Media’s First Line of Defense
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube all announced this week that thousands of content moderators are being sent home—leaving more of our feeds in the hands of machines.
Researchers Will Deploy AI to Better Understand Coronavirus
More than 2,000 papers have been published about the virus since December. It will take some smart algorithms to mine insights from them.
AI Is Coming for Your Most Mind-Numbing Office Tasks
Routine work, like cutting and pasting between documents, is increasingly being automated. But for now, there’s little artificial intelligence involved.
Construction Workers Embrace the Robots That Do Their Jobs
A robotic excavator can dig a pipeline trench without a human in the cab. An engineers’ union is partnering with the company that makes the tech.
These Industrial Robots Get More Adept With Every Task
Vicarious, a secretive 10-year-old startup backed by Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos, reveals its progress and an initial customer.
If AI’s So Smart, Why Can’t It Grasp Cause and Effect?
Deep-learning models can spot patterns that humans can’t. But software still can’t explain, say, what caused one object to collide with another.
Forget Chess—the Real Challenge Is Teaching AI to Play D&D
Some artificial intelligence experts think role playing adventure games will help machines learn to be as clever as we are.
When AI Can’t Replace a Worker, It Watches Them Instead
Whether software that digitizes manual labor makes workers frowny or smiley will come down to how employers choose to use it.
Chinese Hospitals Deploy AI to Help Diagnose Covid-19
Software that reads CT lung scans had primarily been used to detect cancer. Now, it’s been retooled to look for signs of pneumonia caused by coronavirus.
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