Artificial intelligence systems are being employed for a wide range of tasks from recognition systems to autonomous activities, from pattern and anomaly detection to predictive analytics and conversational systems, and many other aspects . One of the areas where AI has shown particular capability is in the area of recognition, from image recognition to speech and other aspects of pattern recognition. Source: Can AI Detect Your Emotion Just By How You Walk?

Did humans have prehistoric ancestors we didn't know about yet? AI seems to suggest so. Did humans have prehistoric ancestors we didn't know about yet? AI seems to suggest so. An artificial intelligence system has identified a previously unknown human ancestor that roamed the planet tens of thousands of years ago and left a genomic footprint in Asian individuals, scientists say. By combining deep learning algorithms and statistical methods, researchers from the University of Tartu in Estonia, Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), and the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Spain, found that the extinct species was a hybrid of Neanderthals and Denisovans and cross bred with modern humans in Asia.

Is artificial intelligence the key to communicating with aliens? Researchers used machine learning to discover 72 new fast radio bursts from a mysterious source 3 billion light years from Earth.

Clinicial researchers at Imperial College London and the University of Edinburgh have developed an artificial intelligence software for identifying and quantifying small vessel disease, a frequent cause of dementia and stroke in older people, from CT scans. The investigators have already tested the software at Imperial's Charing Cross Hospital, demonstrating that the technology rivals that of MRI scans coupled with specialized clinicians in spotting and measuring small vessel disease. Because CT scans are used, which are considerably faster to perform than MRI scans, and that the assessment may not need any human input, the technology can help speed up triage of patients presenting at emergency rooms with signs of stroke or dementia. The study used historical data of 1082 CT scans of stroke patients across 70 hospitals in the UK between 2000-2014, including cases from the Third International Stroke Trial. The software identified and measured a marker of SVD, and then gave a score indicating how severe the disease was ranging from mild to severe.