IBM’s inventions include use of AI to help people converse, protect the earth’s lakes and combat voice phishing
ARMONK, N.Y., Jan. 8, 2019 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) inventors received a record 9,100 patents in 2018, marking the company’s 26th consecutive year of U.S. patent leadership. IBM led the industry in the number of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, security and quantum computing-related patent grants. (more…)
New cloud-based, bias-detection and mitigation controls address need for more transparency in AI decision making
ARMONK, N.Y. — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today introduced technology that gives businesses new transparency into AI, enabling them to more fully harness its power. (more…)
Jennifer Rycenga used to get depressed when she thought about the environment. The impacts of climate change made the avid birdwatcher feel powerless.
Until a rattlesnake appeared in her path on a hike six years ago. (more…)
Exuding her famous friendly Flo-ness, she greets you with a wink in her words and a plan for your auto coverage.
“Welcome friend! You’re looking positively radiant today,” she says, before sharing a photo of her true love: (more…)
Forget the scare stories: AI is produced by engineers and its creators have the capability to design it in ways that enhance, rather than hinder, peoples’ lives
“I propose to consider the question, ‘can machines think?’ This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the word ‘machine’ and ‘think’.” (more…)
AUSTIN, Texas — A panel of academic and industrial thinkers has looked ahead to 2030 to forecast how advances in artificial intelligence (AI) might affect life in a typical North American city – in areas diverse as transportation, healthcare and education – and spur discussion of how to ensure the safe, fair and beneficial development of these rapidly emerging technologies. (more…)
Study Shows Last-Minute Role of Protein Named ALIX
University of Utah researchers devised a way to watch newly forming AIDS virus particles emerging or “budding” from infected human cells without interfering with the process. The method shows a protein named ALIX gets involved during the final stages of virus replication, not earlier, as was believed previously. (more…)
