NEC X Launches “FutureFusion Forum” with MIT Industrial

NEC X Launches “FutureFusion Forum” with MIT Industrial

PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NEC X Inc., the venture studio that support entrepreneurs with NEC’s world-class technology, announced today its FutureFusion Forum, supported by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Industrial Liaison Program (ILP); it will bring together high-tech and artificial intelligence (AI) industry leaders that are disrupting the world … Read more

AI Expert Max Tegmark Warns That Humanity Is Failing the New Technology’s Challenge

AI Expert Max Tegmark Warns That Humanity Is Failing the New Technology’s Challenge

Listen to article (3 minutes) Max Tegmark has long believed in the promise of artificial intelligence. As a physicist and AI researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, which studies technology, he has envisioned a near future in which superintelligent computers could fight climate change, find … Read more

Generative AI in Business and Society

Generative AI in Business and Society

The recent Ai4 conference featured a panel discussion titled “Generative AI in Business and Society.” Some key takeaways are that generative AI offers many opportunities for operational efficiency and product personalization, that companies need to balance privacy concerns with personalization, and they need to understand how generative AI is used across their organization. The panel was … Read more

Machine learning can accurately predict subtypes of Parkinson’s disease

Machine learning can accurately predict subtypes of Parkinson’s disease

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, working with technology company Faculty AI, have shown that machine learning can accurately predict subtypes of Parkinson’s disease using images of patient-derived stem cells. Their work, published today in Nature Machine Intelligence, has shown that computer models can accurately classify four subtypes … Read more

AI-based predictive tool could help guide treatment of cancer

AI-based predictive tool could help guide treatment of cancer

Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have created an AI-based tool that uses tumor gene sequencing data to predict the primary source of a patient’s cancer. The study, published in in Nature Medicine, suggests that this predictive tool, called OncoNPC, could help guide treatment of cancer and improve outcomes in difficult to diagnose cases. The primary … Read more