Please note that in-person capacity for the event is limited, but spaces will be reserved for those with accepted work. UPDATE 3/11/21: Read More Intelligent Medicine: Leaders in biomedical informatics chart roadmap for harnessing the promise of medical AI, a summary of our 2020 Virtual Pre-Symposium. The Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Learning Health Systems (SAIL) is a new annual international conference exploring the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques into clinical medicine. SAIL, which will be held in Hamilton, Bermuda, provides a forum for clinicians, clinical informaticians and AI researchers to discuss approaches and challenges to using these approaches in the healthcare domain. Researchers from the fields of clinical informatics and machine learning have been concerned for decades with bridging the gap between quantitative research and clinical practice.

A new generation of celebrities is selling out concerts, starring in commercials, and amassing huge Instagram followings. But none of them exist--corporeally, anyway. In recent years, and starting in Japan, technology and social media have spawned a digital demimonde of computer-generated stars, ranging from fake musicians and models to company mascots who appear as holograms (like Betty Crocker, with AI). When they're not entertaining you, they're trying to convince you of their humanity, and even the more cartoonish among them have fleshed-out personalities. In a way, it's the purest expression of celebrity, which has always been an elaborate illusion.

Let's be real, part of the reason we're on social media is for the celebrity feuds. And now it seems like that's just another thing the robots are going to do better (or, at least, stranger) than us. Earlier this week, famous instagram robot Bermuda, a digital avatar who posts gems about how climate change is fake, feminists are misguided, and whites are supreme, took over the account of Miquela, another Instagram "robot" who models designer clothes, supports Black Lives Matter, and loves Beyonce. After a few days, Miquela "came clean," and posted an "emotional" rant about her "revelation" that she was not based on a real person, but instead is an artificial intelligence-powered robot that, like Bermuda, was created by the Trump-endorsing tech company Cain Intelligence. Bermuda returned Miquela's account, and the feud ended.

Artificial intelligence is not about robots taking over the world, but about leveraging the powerful technology to capture and analyse vast quantities of data, and making the best use of that information. That--s the belief of Noel Pearman, Bermuda professional lines underwriter and cyber product lead at XL Catlin, who has been speaking on the subject in the US. For the insurance sector, one likely manifestation of AI will see customers purchase increasingly tailored policies based on data directly relevant to the way they live their lives. Mr Pearman explained: --One of the things we are doing now is capturing data at a rate that we were never able to do before.-- The prevalence of --The Internet of Things-- devices that collect real-time data will allow insurance companies to mine information and offer better rates to customers whose behaviours represent a lower risk, such as those with better driving habits.

This 3D rendering of a lionfish harvester robot was developed by Robotics in Service of the Environment (RISE). The prototype uses a robot arm with two metal electrodes on the end to electrocute invasive lionfish, which are then collected in a central chamber for use as food. The America's Cup sailing race kicked off this week in Bermuda, but a month ago, a different type of competition was held in the island's lucid waters. It was a contest that pitted chef against chef and robot against beast. Last August, NewsHour broke the story of a robot being developed to stop lionfish, an invasive species that has decimated Atlantic coral reef ecosystems due to their insatiable appetites for other fish.

We joke around a lot about bringing about a horrific robot apocalypse, but let's get real: sometimes, building a killer robot is just the right thing to do. Well, at least when those robots are being used to cull invasive species. Researchers at Robots In Service of the Environment (RISE) are developing a robot to fight an invasive population of Lionfish that's threatening ecosystems off the coast of Florida as well as in the Caribbean and Bermuda. Creating a robot to exterminate a specific species sounds a bit harsh, but it's an environmental issue: the Lionfish population in question isn't native to Caribbean waters, and are don't register as predators to the local wildlife. By decimating the area's food supply, the voracious carnivores are killing coral reef systems and starving other species.

"The problem with the lionfish is it's like Darwin's nightmare," Oliver Steeds said, standing on the deck of the Baseline Explorer. A late afternoon sun dwindled over the 146-foot research vessel, as it sat anchored in St. George's Harbour on Bermuda's northeast corner. Licks of ocean water dried off a gold-plated submersible parked next to Steeds, the director of a deep ocean exploration project called the Nekton mission, as he recounted the basics of the invasive species. "Lionfish are chowing their way through the food chain, because they don't have any predators," Steeds said. Map of the lionfish spread based on sightings from 1985 to 2015. The first lionfish sightings occurred off the Florida coast in the mid-1980s.