Tag: AI

THE DOCTOR ON YOUR WRIST

Wearable technology doesn’t just have the potential to save lives, it is already saving lives. Take, for example, the story of a woman who was alerted to her irregular heart rhythms by her apple watch and after further tests was diagnosed with a heart tumor.

STAYING ALERT – THE ALARM THAT SAVES ENTIRE REGIONS

In the year I spent living by the seashore in the north of New Zealand, I spent the nights listening to the waves and fearing the tsunami siren would go off at any second. At eight years old this felt like the scariest idea imaginable, but years later the thought of having no early warning system is much more frightening.

THE THERAPIST WITHOUT EMOTIONS

In suggesting that Artificial Intelligence might be able to help us improve our mental health the first reactions I receive are often puzzled or confused looks: as if I had just asked your toaster to drive us to the airport. How can a programme with no true understanding of emotions help us de-code our own?

HOW TO PUT THE CARE BACK INTO HEALTHCARE

Consumers are increasingly dictating what they want and demand personalized services with an opportunity to shape what they consume. While personalized services and products are not a new creation, Artificial Intelligence has enabled us to implement personalization in sectors and at a scale not thought possible before.

DECODING HUMANS

We build our lives not around humans, but around machines. In order to cross a road, open a door or dry our hands, we rely on pressing buttons or activating sensors so a machine can recognise and read our movements.

A WORLD OF LIES: LIVING IN THE AGE OF GENERATIVE DATA

I was sitting with a friend and former crush that I hadn’t seen in years, when he starts telling me about this amazing AI programme. “It can do anything you ask it to”, he says, “For example, I am going to ask it to write a poem about you and I.”