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Antarctica's Thwaites glacier at risk of collapse and may lead to sea levels rising by two feet
Antarctica's Thwaites glacier has warm water from three directions well under it threatening to destroy the ice sheet and raise global sea levels by up to two feet. A team of scientists from Oregon State University made the most of ice free waters in West Antarctica to look under the glacier - which is about the size of Great Britain. Warm water from the deep ocean is welling up under the glacier from three different directions and mixing under the ice, the researchers discovered. If it collapses it could take other parts of the ice shelf with it and lead to the single largest driver of sea-level rise this century, lead researcher Erin Pettit told Nature. The £39million study involving UK and US scientists was launched after concerns the increasingly unstable glacier may have already started to collapse.
AI's bias problem: Why Humanity Must be Returned to AI
Despite the many benefits AI technology can provide – for instance, AI models can detect breast cancer more accurately than radiologists – we also need to be aware of the potential negative consequences of AI, including deepfakes and nefarious uses of facial recognition. In fact, the regulation of artificial intelligence is emerging as a key disagreement among the world's biggest tech companies. Most recently, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and parent company Alphabet, added to the heated debate with an op-ed, calling for greater regulation of AI technologies. Especially with AI permeating into areas of our lives that used to be based on human decision-making such as healthcare, recruiting, and criminal justice, we need to ensure we're still placing people at the centre of these modern technologies. Most often the lack of limited training data can be the root cause.
Will AI change our industry? Read what the delegates of the UFI chapter in Tokyo think.
This question was discussed at the recent high-profile UFI Asia-Pacific Conference in Tokyo by Stephan Forseilles, Gunner Heinrich, myself and many other delegates. One thing became quite clear right from the start of the discussion. AI is a topic that's high on the agenda for nearly everybody in the industry. Overall the proportion of delegates who believe AI will change our industry was a clear majority at nearly 70%, however, the sceptics also presented a strong counter-argument. Those who didn't believe that AI would bring about change claimed that we are first and foremost a "face-to-face industry".
Just AI, a Conversational AI Solutions Provider, Receives Investment from Fintech and Telecom Companies
Just AI, a сonversational AI technologies developer and solutions provider, received from two strategic investors: MTS PJSC and Sovcombank PJSC . The new investors' total share in the capital of Just AI was 22.5%, with a total market valuation of $40 million. Just AI, a сonversational AI technologies developer and solutions provider, received funding from two strategic investors. The first one is MTS PJSC – one of the leading mobile network operators in Russia, Ukraine, Armenia and Belarus with over 106.5 million subscribers. The second investor is Sovcombank PJSC – one of Russia's top-15 commercial banks.
Artificial intelligence spotted 11 'potentially hazardous' asteroids that NASA missed
Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. An asteroid hitting Earth is one of humanity's greatest existential threats, making it imperative that asteroid detection is a vital task for government space agencies around the world. Using advanced artificial intelligence, researchers in the Netherlands have discovered several "potentially hazardous objects" that were not spotted by humans. The research, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, looked at space objects more than 100 meters in diameter that were likely to come within 4.7 million miles of Earth.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Construction Market Insights - 2019-2026: Research Dive
The artificial intelligence (AI) in construction market size was valued at $408.1 million in 2018, and is anticipated to grow with a CAGR of 26.3%. Artificial Intelligence in construction market is mainly determined by increasing safety of the workers and rising work efficiency, artificial intelligence is mostly used to get information and take decision for the future. The construction companies are using Artificial Intelligence for safety, estimation, designing, and quality measurement. Get details overview of the report story https://www.researchdive.com/download-sample/46 The advanced Artificial Intelligence device and machines and cost efficiency are projected to drive the market.
New artificial intelligence algorithm better predicts corn yield
"We're trying to change how people run agronomic research. Instead of establishing a small field plot, running statistics, and publishing the means, what we're trying to do involves the farmer far more directly. We are running experiments with farmers' machinery in their own fields. We can detect site-specific responses to different inputs. And we can see whether there's a response in different parts of the field," says Nicolas Martin, assistant professor in the Department of Crop Sciences at Illinois and co-author of the study.
The Amazing Ways Goodyear Uses Artificial Intelligence And IoT For Digital Transformation
Would you be surprised to learn a 120-year-old company is transforming its business with artificial intelligence and technology? Akron, Ohio-based tire maker Goodyear might not be the first company you think of when discussing technological innovation, but they continue to announce intriguing developments and offer proof via new initiatives and products that they are altering operations to be competitive in the future. Regardless if it's an autonomous, electric, or a traditional vehicle, they all need a solid foundation of the right tire for the specific demands of the vehicle. Goodyear uses internet of things technology in its Eagle 360 Urban tire. The tire is 3D printed with super-elastic polymer and embedded with sensors.
Artificial Intelligence Could Fight a Future Coronavirus
Disease outbreaks like the coronavirus often unfold too quickly for scientists to find a cure. But in the future, artificial intelligence could help researchers do a better job. While it's probably too late for the fledgling technology to play a major role in the current epidemic, there's hope for the next outbreaks. AI is good at combing through mounds of data to find connections that make it easier to determine what kinds of treatments could work or which experiments to pursue next. The question is what Big Data will come up with when it only gets meager scraps of information on a newly emerged illness like Covid-19, which first emerged late last year in China and has sickened more than 75,000 people in about two months.
A road map for artificial intelligence policy
The rapid development of artificial intelligence technologies around the globe has led to increasing calls for robust AI policy: laws that let innovation flourish while protecting people from privacy violations, exploitive surveillance, biased algorithms, and more. But the drafting and passing of such laws has been anything but easy. "This is a very complex problem," Luis Videgaray PhD '98, director of MIT's AI Policy for the World Project, said in a lecture on Wednesday afternoon. "This is not something that will be solved in a single report. This has got to be a collective conversation, and it will take a while. It will be years in the making."