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 […]