Technology

Airlines Discounting Safety to Meet Demand

Flight deck promotions happening five times faster than accepted norms. Commanders of multi-engined, twin-aisle jets now younger by 15 years. Pilots scaling up to larger aircraft with questionable haste. Both pilots on the flight deck with the same level of inexperience; aviators that look like the kids of the passengers. These are issues that hardly […]

AI Gives Hope to Possible Prostate Cancer Sufferers

The American Medical Association (AMA) has tentatively approved an artificial intelligence platform designed to create treatment plans for patients with prostate cancer. The Unfold artificial intelligence platform from US-based Avenda Health, which creates a cancer probability map based on patient-specific data from prostate biopsies and imaging. It has been given a category III Current Procedural […]

Microsoft Unveiling Its Master Learning Tool

Microsoft is unveiling its new tool called Learning from Mistakes (LeMa), that mimics human learning behavior. John Locke said that humans are born as blank slates or what is known tabula rasa. Humans are molded by their nature such as their biology and genetics and by their nurture such as life experiences, education, and society. […]

ChatGPT Exposing Residual Workplace Sexism

In a UK survey conducted earlier this year, it was concluded that of the tens of millions of people using ChatGPT, 54% are male and 34%, female. There were a number of reasons given for this imbalance. Firstly, there seems to be a greater degree of mistrust in the generative AI app when it came […]

The Beatles Come Together for the Last Time

AI in music has done its magic in assembling a song from old recordings for The Beatles that span over four decades. The new song will be called Now and Then. It has been assembled from an old recording of the late John Lennon in his house in New York in 1979 playing the piano […]

Musk Gives AI Summit Rock Star Veneer

This morning, it was announced that Elon Musk, owner of X (formerly blah blah blah) and founder of etc. etc. etc., will be attending the AI Summit at Bletchley Park. Or rather, may attend the AI Safety Summit. So actually, the world’s most talked-about human being doesn’t have to attend. We can just pretend he’s […]