Business
Major League Baseball teams draft roughly 1,500 prospects annually, but less than 20% eventually make the jump to the majors. Building on statistical ideas and methods best known through the 2003 book "Moneyball," University ...
Sep 21, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
There are alien minds among us. Not the little green men of science fiction, but the alien minds that power the facial recognition in your smartphone, determine your creditworthiness and write poetry and computer code. These ...
Sep 14, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
The term "artificial intelligence," usually abbreviated as AI, means many things to many people. Initially, the phrase was used to allude to the potential of machines, computers, specifically, somehow gaining sentience on ...
Jun 26, 2023
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Computer Sciences
A machine can only "do whatever we know how to order it to perform," wrote the 19th-century computing pioneer Ada Lovelace. This reassuring statement was made in relation to Charles Babbage's description of the first mechanical ...
May 12, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Future generations of self-driving cars should learn the language of cyclists to help them safely share the roads with bikes, new research suggests.
Apr 24, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
Artificial intelligence is touted as a panacea for almost every computational problem these days, from medical diagnostics to driverless cars to fraud prevention.
Apr 6, 2023
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Business
Artificial intelligence is dominating headlines—enabling new innovations that drive business performance—yet the negative implications for society are an afterthought.
Feb 20, 2023
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Computer Sciences
In 2020, as a result of COVID-19 restrictions on students sitting exams in person, the United Kingdom's school exam regulator, Ofqual, used an algorithm to determine their final year grades.
Nov 24, 2021
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Machine learning & AI
Algorithms are becoming commonplace. They can determine employment prospects, financial security and more. The use of algorithms can be controversial—for example, robodebt, as the Australian government's flawed online welfare ...
Nov 22, 2021
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Business
Google on Wednesday built on its push to modernize the medical system with a deal to put cloud computing power to work for US-based HCA Healthcare.
May 26, 2021
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