When diagnosed with a disease, it’s often overwhelming to sort through mountains of medical data to figure out what therapies are available, pinpoint where...
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How smart can our machines make us? Tom Gruber, co-creator of Siri, wants to make “humanistic AI” that augments and collaborates with us...
Collecting global health data is an imperfect science: Workers tramp through villages to knock on doors and ask questions, write the answers on paper...
A quantum computer isn’t just a more powerful version of the computers we use today; it’s something else entirely, based on emerging scientific...
How can we measure what makes a school system work? Andreas Schleicher walks us through the PISA test, a global measurement that ranks countries...
“Will machines replace humans?” This question is on the mind of anyone with a job to lose. Daniel Susskind confronts this question and...
“The actual path of a raindrop as it goes down the valley is unpredictable, but the general direction is inevitable,” says digital visionary Kevin...
Many artificial intelligence researchers expect AI to outsmart humans at all tasks and jobs within decades, enabling a future where we’re restricted only by...
In 132 CE, Zhang Heng presented his latest invention: a large vase he claimed could tell them whenever an earthquake occurred for hundreds of...
Artificial intelligence is changing many things in our lives, including the way our food is produced. Technologies like machine learning, image recognition, and predictive...