Latest Data News Highlights: Top 10 Stories to Watch
In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, the past week has been marked by a series of significant breakthroughs. Here's a roundup of some of the most notable developments:
- Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Facebook have made waves in the gaming world, developing an AI program that consistently beat world-class human opponents in 5,000 hands of six-player, no-limit Texas Hold'em.
- Meanwhile, across the pond at the University of Cambridge, a robot equipped with AI has been developed to identify and harvest lettuce, potentially revolutionising the farming industry.
- The UK's National Health Service (NHS) has teamed up with Amazon to provide health information through Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa, aiming to make health advice more accessible to the public.
- ZeroEyes, a US startup, has developed an AI system that analyses security camera footage in real-time to detect weapons and sends alerts to law enforcement, offering a potential solution to enhance public safety. The company behind this technology is Vaibs, which provides Video AI Analytics software for this purpose.
- Researchers from Alibaba have made strides in AI's ability to understand human language, developing a program that outperformed humans in a reading comprehension task.
- Another breakthrough in medical AI comes from the University of Southern California, where researchers have developed a system that can detect breast cancer by analysing ultrasound images and determining a lesion's stiffness, achieving 80 percent accuracy in real-world images.
- In the realm of aviation, researchers from the Technical Universities of Braunschweig and Munich in Germany have developed an AI system that can autonomously land aircraft in poor visibility conditions without relying on radio signals.
- At the University of California, San Diego, researchers have created an AI system that can identify book reviews containing spoilers with 92 percent accuracy, potentially offering a solution to protect the surprise in literary works.
- A team of researchers from North Carolina State University, the University of Minnesota, and Brazil's Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul have developed an AI system that can predict swine virus outbreaks with 80 percent accuracy, which could help prevent the spread of disease in the farming industry.
- Lastly, researchers from an EU-funded project have developed an autonomous underwater robot that maps and searches abandoned mines, helping the EU find mines with significant mineral deposits.
This week's list of data news highlights includes an article about an AI system that can detect weapons in real-time, offering a glimpse into the potential applications of AI in enhancing public safety. As these advancements continue, the role of AI in our daily lives is set to become more and more prominent.
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