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Covid Near You Helps Defeat the Invisible Enemy
“It is impossible to defeat an enemy that we cannot see,” says Bill Gates. Like many other observers and participants in the fight with COVID-19, Gates maintains that testing is critical for the reopening of the US economy, to identify new hot … Continue reading
News from Israel about COVID-19 Vaccine and Finding High-Risk People
News from Israel today about rapid progress in developing a COVID-19 vaccine and in identifying people at the highest risk of severe COVID-19 complications. Read more here
Startup Nation and COVID-19
As the coronavirus came suddenly out of stealth mode, displaying a record-breaking adherence to Silicon Valley’s mantra of “scaling up,” shocked startup investors—watching the Bloomberg US Startups Barometer plunging more than 50% in 3 months—ask “what’s to be done now”? Read more … Continue reading
Digital Health, AI, and Israel
The global outbreak of the new Coronavirus brought to our attention an inconvenient truth about influenza: The seasonal flu kills between 291,000 to 645,000 people worldwide each year. Still, a December 2019 survey found that 37% of US adults did not intend to get … Continue reading
AI by the Numbers: Data Privacy or AI Supremacy?
Recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the progress and impact of AI highlight the confusion and contradictory attitudes of consumers about the privacy of their data, the impact of AI on jobs, and the race for AI … Continue reading
Ramon Llull and His ‘Thinking Machine’
In 1308, Catalan poet and theologian Ramon Llull completed Ars generalis ultima (The Ultimate General Art), further perfecting his method of using paper-based mechanical means to create new knowledge from combinations of concepts. Read more here
Why It’s Difficult to Make Predictions, Especially About the Future
The year 2020 has been featured in many predictions and long-term visions in the past, implying not only the terminal point for the forecast or planning period but also a crystal-clear crystal ball. Now that the year 2020 is our … Continue reading
AI by the Numbers: The Healthcare Industry is Ahead of Other Industries in AI Adoption?
Recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the progress of AI highlight the increasing presence of AI in the healthcare industry, the assistance AI may provide in the future to workers’ cognitive tasks, and the continuing acceleration in … Continue reading
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Best of 2019: Bengio and Intel on Why AI is Not Magic
[September 20, 2019] Asked what is the biggest misconception about AI, Yoshua Bengio answered without hesitation “AI is not magic.” Winner of the 2018 Turing Award (with the other “fathers of the deep learning revolution,” Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun), … Continue reading
Best of 2019: The Misleading Language of Artificial Intelligence
[September 27, 2019] Language is imprecise, vague, context-specific, sentence-structure-dependent, full of fifty shades of gray (or grey). It’s what we use to describe progress in artificial intelligence, in improving computers’ performance in tasks such as accurately identifying images or translating … Continue reading