Science Apr 29 Analysis: How marketers could use voice-profiling to sell you more stuff Marketers will soon be able to use AI-assisted vocal analysis to gain insights into shoppers' inclinations – without people knowing what they're revealing or how that information is being interpreted. By Joseph Turow, The Conversation
Health Apr 25 Scientists get one step closer to decoding thoughts into speech Using electrodes and computer algorithms, researchers have generated intelligible sentences from the thoughts of people without speech difficulties, sparking hope that similar technology could eventually provide a voice to people who can't speak. By Karen Weintraub, Scientific American
Science Apr 11 Katie Bouman ‘hardly knew what a black hole was.’ Her algorithm helped us see one Imaging scientist Katie Bouman chats with the PBS NewsHour about how she crafted an algorithm that constructed the first ever photo of a black hole. By Vicky Stein
Science Jun 22 To beat Vegas bookies at the World Cup, these statisticians turned to artificial intelligence After cleaning up at the 2014 World Cup, statistician Andreas Groll is enlisting machine learning to keep his lucky streak going… By Amanda Grennell
Feb 28 Inside the study showing conservatives retweeted Russian trolls 30 times more often than liberals By Rashmi Shivni Computational social scientists found that 40,000 American Twitter users retweeted Russian trolls more than 80,000 times in a single month before the 2016 election. Continue reading