Category: How do computers learn?

Using artificial intelligence to diagnose autism in the womb After measuring certain characteristics of unborn babies and following them through the first years of life, researchers input this data into an algorithm that could be used to predict autism diagnosis in other unborn babies.

Posted on June 3, 2021June 3, 2021 by Rachel Holland 928 views

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is one of the most common developmental disorders diagnosed today. It affects an estimated 75 million people worldwide, and the number of cases has been gradually increasing since studies began in the 1960s. The symptoms generally include communication deficits, sensory processing…

A new way to detect ET life using chemical profiles Rather than detecting one chemical at a time, scientists taught machine learning algorithms what different mixtures of compounds from living and non-living sources “look like” to chemical analyzers. The computer then used those fingerprints to correctly identify living and non-living samples in the lab!

Posted on April 26, 2021April 26, 2021 by Jim Cleaves 649 views

Researchers found a new way to tell the difference between the chemicals of life and the chemicals of non-life...using machine learning!

How “fast radio bursts” are used in the search for alien life Detecting fast radio bursts is difficult because the data is "noisy" so ruling out false positives is a current topic of study. A group of researchers improved detection using a computer method called a "convoluted neural network" that improved accuracy.

Posted on January 28, 2021April 2, 2021 by Rongrong Liu 72 views

Detecting fast radio bursts is difficult because the data is "noisy" so ruling out false positives is a current topic of study. A group of researchers improved detection using a computer method called a "convoluted neural network" that improved accuracy.

Can We Teach a Computer to Be Creative? Researchers at Apple write an algorithm that lets computers train other computers to learn patterns

Posted on October 18, 2017January 15, 2021 by Mohit Nalavadi 52 views

Creativity is no small task. We do our best to cultivate and cherish the imagination of young children, and struggle to maintain those senses as we get older. But what exactly is creativity? Can its rules be written down? Is there an algorithm for it? Can we teach a computer to be creative? As the maturing field of…