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AI Sentience: A Need to Raise the Turing-Test Bar

By Dick Weisinger

Sentience is the ability to experience feelings and sensations. The question of whether artificial intelligence can ever achieve sentience came up in the news this past week. Headline news stories tell how Google fired an engineer who believed that an…

AI and BioMedicine: Revolutionary – If it Can Achieve Greater Transparency

By Dick Weisinger

AI is increasingly being applied to biomedicine and healthcare. It is being used for less-invasive early detection and diagnosis of disease, the development of long-term disease management, and as a tool to speed up the research and discovery of new…

Artificial Intelligence: DeepMind and Protein Folding

By Dick Weisinger

Understanding the proteins in living organisms is vital for developing drugs/medicines and understanding how organisms function. Every protein is made from a chain of amino acids. Scientists have been able to determine the amino acids in a protein but to…

AI-Augmented Software Development: Love it or Hate it, It’s Here!

By Dick Weisinger

Artificial Intelligence is starting to be applied to software development to both improve development and improve the developer experience. Tools like Microsoft’s IntelliSense have been available for some time. Based on near-term context of code that the developer has typed,…

Machine Learning: Teaching Machines to Predict and Anticipate Will Make Them Interact with Humans More Easily

By Dick Weisinger

Predictive Machine Learning is a type of method used in artificial intelligence that combines statistical techniques, machine learning, predictive modeling and data mining. The goal is to estimate and make a prediction about the likelihood of an event or outcome…