As the UK faces rising rates of loneliness and concerns about its effects, could artificial intelligence offer a solution? Elizabeth Barber investigates.
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Video games that can help diagnose, monitor and treat depression
Katie Jones discusses a new AI technology that could be used to help depression and the current waiting list crisis for mental health support
AI able to predict who will develop Dementia
Gwellian Page-Gibby discusses recent news from the University of Exeter who have been developing Artificial Intelligence able to predict which patients will develop dementia within 2 years.
Bloomin’ Amazing Technology: Artificial Intelligence Could Help Predict Harmful Algal Blooms
M. Shelton discusses what algal blooms are, how they can affect a variety of different systems, how Artificial Intelligence could be used to predict where they will be and to prevent them in the future.
AI Algorithms and Coughing
Erica Mannis explains how artificial intelligence has been programmed to accurately detect COVID positive patients
A Helping Hand
Elinor Jones discusses the use of AI in the search for new antibiotics.
Do the Robot
Online Screen editor Jim Norman discusses some of his favourite cinematic robots.
Image-Net Roulette: Artistic experiment or internet fad?
Katie Fox looks at the rise and impact of the image-based machine learning software, and evaluates the ethics behind it.
AI Don’t Think So…
Whether it’s adverts for the Amazon Alexa, Sophia the robot tweeting or ‘Black Mirror’ throwing its viewers into a hellscape where personal security robots routinely hunt and kill humans, our society has Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the brain. With its applications seemingly endless, an AI takeover does seem inevitable. However, it has some drawbacks that […]
Artificial Neurons and the Robot Takeover
In recent totally terrifying and not-Black-Mirror-related news, it has been found that artificial neurons, or in much more cooler terminology “superconducting computing chips” modelled after neurons have been found to be able to process information much faster and more efficiently than the human brain. So what does this mean for us and the software that […]