Amazon ha aprovechado la conferencia AWS Re:Invent que se clausura hoy en Las Vegas para anunciar el lanzamiento de los chips Inferentia, sus propia alternativa para proyectos de aprendizaje automático, con los que pretenden proporcionar a los investigadores “alto rendimiento a bajo costo” a partir de finales de 2019. Los Inferentia saltarán al mercado siendo compatibles con frameworks populares como […]

Artificial intelligence may help doctors make more accurate readings of CT scans used to screen for lung cancer. Computers were as good or better than doctors at detecting tiny lung cancers on CT scans, in a study by researchers from Google and several medical centers. The technology is a work in progress, not ready for […]

A Deep Dive with Futurist Stuart Candy What is your preferred future? Who shapes the future? How might we create more equitable and inclusive futures? The ability to imaginatively think about the future is a uniquely human skill. Yet, how we feel about the future, our visions of what could be, and our determination of where […]

THIS WEEK, I interviewed Yuval Noah Harari, the author of three best-selling books about the history and future of our species, and Fei-Fei Li, one of the pioneers in the field of artificial intelligence. The event was hosted by the Stanford Center for Ethics and Society, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and the Stanford Humanities Center. A transcript of the […]

Con importantes violaciones de datos personales sucediendo en todo el mundo casi todos los días, la adopción de una tecnología que mantenga los registros de forma segura e inmutable, como el Blockchain, se convierte cada vez más en una necesidad. Y aunque en los últimos años el uso de esta tecnología ha ido en aumento, […]

El corazón del tamaño de un conejo se hizo a partir de las propias células y tejidos del paciente, utilizando técnicas que podrían ayudar a aumentar la tasa de trasplantes de corazón exitosos en el futuro. Cómo funcionó: se tomó una biopsia de tejido de los pacientes y luego se separaron sus materiales. Algunas moléculas, como el […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a broadly-used term, akin to the word manufacturing, which can cover the production of cars, cupcakes or computers. Its use as a blanket term disguises how important it is to be clear about AI’s purpose. Purpose impacts the choice of technology, how it is measured and the ethics of its application. […]

But is there a conservative approach that can really work at this stage? ClearPath Executive Director Rich Powell makes the conservative case for an innovative agenda on climate change. Climate change is having a moment. It’s hard to untangle cause from effect, but some combination of the backlash against Trump, worsening environmental disasters, youth-driven protests, […]

When an early potential customer is hesitant, frame it as an opportunity to solve their problems rather than an excuse to walk away. If you push past the initial obstacles, explains Zūm founder and CEO Ritu Narayan, you can end up with a much more useful and scalable product. She demonstrates how persevering with a […]

La fascinación por los misterios que existen en el cosmos –en sus estrellas, satélites, planetas, galaxias, nebulosas y más– es universal. Desde hace siglos, este tema le interesa a millones de personas en todo el mundo. Tan solo en Estados Unidos, existen 450 clubes de astronomía, según la Sociedad Astronómica del Pacífico. Otro ejemplo son […]