For the Thanksgiving holiday in the US, we revisit a classic KDnuggets Thanksgiving cartoon, which takes a look at what could be predicted from data trends? Searches for gravy and turkey stuffing are going through the roof!" Here are other KDnuggets AI, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science Cartoons. See also other recent KDnuggets Cartoons: Cartoon: Cloud Dating I have a joke about ... Cartoon: The Worst Telemedicine? Cartoon: AI and March Madness Cartoon: Is this how you do the blockchain thing?

Getting machine learning and artificial intelligence to work for construction is often a matter of finding where it would be most useful. AI algorithms can scan through terabytes of data, looking for small inconsistencies or hidden patterns that a human might not notice at first. Now, engineers at Thornton Tomasetti have applied that considerable processing power to the tricky work of building-facade inspections. After two years of development in Thornton Tomasetti's CORE lab, the result is T2D2, a computer-vision, machine-learning algorithm that can identify damage to building exteriors in photos or video. Not intended to replace the difficult work of facade inspections, T2D2 is instead seen as tool to find hidden damage that might go unnoticed, and speed along a tedious, difficult process.

New KDnuggets cartoon gives you a respite from the virus and politics and issues of the day, and looks at how AI can transform love and romance. A Scientist: Our AI has come up with "Dating in the cloud". It scans your social media posts and comes up with a great profile for you, automatically inflating your resume and making you more attractive. And no need to decie who pays for the meal!" Here are other KDnuggets AI, Big Data, Data Science, and Machine Learning Cartoons.

Tijana Radivojevic (left) and Hector Garcia Martin working on mechanical and statistical modeling, data visualizations, and metabolic maps at the Agile BioFoundry last year. If you've eaten vegan burgers that taste like meat or used synthetic collagen in your beauty routine – both products that are "grown" in the lab – then you've benefited from synthetic biology. It's a field rife with potential, as it allows scientists to design biological systems to specification, such as engineering a microbe to produce a cancer-fighting agent. Yet conventional methods of bioengineering are slow and laborious, with trial and error being the main approach. Now scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new tool that adapts machine learning algorithms to the needs of synthetic biology to guide development systematically.

Once-powerful antibiotics are losing their efficacy at a disconcerting pace as bacteria evolve immunity to our drugs. At least 700,000 people around the world now die each year from infections that could formerly be treated with antibiotics. A report last year from the United Nations Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance warned that if no new major advances are made by 2050, mortality could leap to 10 million deaths a year. What makes this prognosis all the more dire is that the antibiotic pipeline has slowed to a trickle. In the past two decades, only a few new antibiotics have been found that kill bacteria in novel ways, and rising resistance is a problem for all of them.

Ethics in AI has received significant attention recently, and the new KDnuggets Cartoon examines the problem of teaching ethics to artificially intelligent entities, like self-driving cars.. The human teacher at a blackboard presents a version of the trolley problem to a class of self-driving cars, where a car is facing a choice between hitting a baby in a carriage or 2 pedestrians. A self-driving car is asking: So what should we do? Drive straight and run over a baby or swerve and hit two pedestrians? What if one of the pedestrians is your mother-in-law?

New KDnuggets Cartoon looks at unsupervised Machine Learning, which is considered by many leading AI researchers to be the next frontier in AI. This cartoon looks at the situation when Machine Learning becomes too unsupervised. This cartoon was ably drawn by Jon Carter. See also other recent KDnuggets Cartoons: Cartoon: AI and March Madness Cartoon: Is this how you do the blockchain thing? Cartoon: Where AI achieves excellence Cartoon: Machine Learning takes a vacation Cartoon: Data Scientist was the sexiest job of the 21st century until ... Cartoon: How is Data Science Different From Religion?

Self-Driving cars is hot technology trend, as is using adversarial methods for training machine learning. For the summer barbecue season, we revisit our cartoon which looks at what happens when the latest Deep Learning technology is combined with the traditional summer pastime of grilling. "This is Jim's Hobby Project: A self-driving grill, but he accidentally programmed an adversarial grill, so now he cannot catch it!" This cartoon was ably drawn by Jon Carter. If you find it funny, congratulations - you know enough about Deep Learning and adversarial networks.

Autonomous supply chain planning is neither pie-in-the-sky nor purely aspirational. Rather, it is the only viable response to today's globalized, e-commercialized, omnichannel business environment, where organizations must cope with a constantly shifting deluge of information pouring into the enterprise from all corners of the marketplace. There is no longer any way companies can manage supply chain planning by increasing the size of their planning teams. Secondly, the combination of seasoned, yet simultaneously tech-savvy, talent needed for the job is in increasingly scarce supply. Thirdly, and perhaps most crucially, people, no matter how many or how smart, don't have sufficient brainpower to deal with the scale of inputs and outputs in the modern supply chain --only machine learning can keep up.

A recent story about a company planning to replace lawyers with Machine Learning led me to think how it might look like when AI lawyers are deployed. Partner: Finally, we have a lawyer that not only bills for 24 hours per day, but actually works 24 hours a day! This cartoon was ably drawn by Jon Carter. See also other recent KDnuggets Cartoons: Cartoon: Labor Day in the year 2050 Cartoon: Machine Learning takes a vacation Cartoon: Data Scientist was the sexiest job of the 21st century until ... Cartoon: How is Data Science Different From Religion? Cartoon: Thanksgiving, Big Data, & Turkey Data Science Cartoon: What Else Can AI Guess From Your Face? Cartoon: Future Machine Learning Class Cartoon: The First Ever Self-Driving, Deep Learning Grill Cartoon: Mother Of All Data Cartoon: Machine Learning - What They Think I Do Cartoon: the distance between Espresso and Cappuccino Cartoon: Taxes, Artificial Intelligence, and Humans Cartoon: What Happens When AI Masters the March Madness Causation or Correlation: Explaining Hill Criteria using xkcd Cartoon: Perfect Valentine's Dates Found With Data Analysis Cartoon: When Self-Driving Car Machine Learning takes you too far ... Cartoon: Labor Day in the year 2050 Cartoon: Machine Learning takes a vacation Cartoon: Data Scientist was the sexiest job of the 21st century until ... Cartoon: How is Data Science Different From Religion?