I have always been amazed by the ability of radiologists to pinpoint a problem by looking at those black and white RX! It turns out that it takes years of experience to get the knack, seeing what we don’t see at all. Medical doctors in general rely on radiologists expertise …
Read More »From HMI too HITL
We have been using tools for as long as we defined ourselves “human”, actually the use of tools pre-dates home sapiens, going back 2.3 million years ago at the time of homo habilis (we, sapiens, started to walk the world some 500,000 years ago). The Human-Tool interface was straightforward you …
Read More »Using AI to detect breast cancer
Image recognition has progressed in ways that were completely unexpected just 20 years ago. At that time we kept saying that computers were no good in understanding images, that was humans turf. This is no longer so. The camera in our phones recognise a smiling face, the photo management application …
Read More »Transhumanism: Increasing Human Thought Capabilities II
The increase of thinking capabilities can be pursued by: “engineering” a better “brain” (pretty though, since we do not know yet how it works nor how the genome is shaping it …) Improving processing capabilities through focused stimulation better exploiting its capabilities, including establishing better connection with it, feeding more pertinent …
Read More »Helping autism with deep learning enhanced robots
Rosalind Picard and her team at MIT launched several years ago research in the area of affective computing, computers that can interact with humans taking into account the emotional level of the person interacting with them. They were designed also in ways to appeal and stimulate interaction, like having an …
Read More »Will our offsprings be smarter than us? – II
Adaptability and capability to leverage of the environment has been key to the success of life, from the very early forms to us and to what we see around us. Adaptability has not been a characteristic of the single individual, rather it emerged from natural selection as result of environmental …
Read More »Awareness, Intention, Sentiment technologies in SAS – VI
Sentiment analyses usually refers to the analyses of Natural Language (including the sort of NL you find in SMS and Whatsapp) plus biometrics to identify and quantify the affective status of a person or a group of persons. A number of products, like IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding, are already on …
Read More »Awareness, Intention, Sentiment technologies in SAS – IV
Following on the previous posts in this series, a third area of awareness, covered in a specular way in the next subsection, relates to the potential perception of context and actions carried out by the “aware” entity by other entities. This is, by far, a higher level of awareness and …
Read More »Brainternet: a peek into the future?
Back in 2017, that’s long time ago!, a university project Brainternet, made the headlines of several news. The project was (and still is) carried out at the Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa, and by leveraging on portable (wearable) EEG harvested the signals resulting from the electrical activity of the brain …
Read More »Human augmentation through genomic engineering
Since the discovery of the code of life scientists have looked at ways to tinker with it to change some of life characteristics. Over the last 10 years (CRISPR was discovered in 1993 and Cas9 in 2005 but their application to the splicing of DNA can be dated to 2013) …
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