Artificial intelligence

Of the millions diagnosed with cancer each year, over half receive some form of radiation therapy. Deep learning is helping radiation oncologists make the process more precise by automatically labeling tumors from medical scans in a process known as contouring. It’s a delicate balance. “If oncologists contour too small an area, then radiation doesn’t treat the whole tumor and it could keep growing,” said Jen-Tang Lu, founder and CEO of Vysioneer, a Boston-based startup with an office in Taiwan. “If they contour too much, then radiation can harm the neighboring normal tissues.” A member of the NVIDIA Inception startup accelerator program, Vysioneer builds AI tools to automate the time-consuming process of tumor contouring. To ensure the efficacy and safety of radiotherapy, radiation oncologists can easily spend hours contouring tumors from medical scans, Lu said. The company’s first product, VBrain, can identify the three most common types of … [Read more...] about AI Came, AI Saw, AI Conquered: How Vysioneer Improves Precision Radiation Therapy

microsoft ignite 2019 Microsoft starts embedding Cortana in Outlook Mobile Microsoft's Hybrid 2.0 strategy: Azure Arc explained Unified Office Mobile app ready for Android and iOS users Chromium-based Edge generally available January 15 Microsoft rebrands Flow to 'Power Automate' Defender ATP coming to Linux in 2020 Power BI gets new data protection features Meet Project Cortex, Office 365 knowledge-management service Azure Synapse Analytics combines data warehouse, lake and pipelines Azure goes Quantum (TechRepublic) Microsoft is continuing to evolve its unified Microsoft Search service. The latest pieces it is integrating into Microsoft Search involve its 'Project Turing' deep-learning work, as well as advances it is making around semantic meaning and intent. Microsoft Search, for those needing a quick refresher, is the name Microsoft uses to refer to its unified search experience designed to work in Windows, Office, Bing and more. "Bing for Business," which … [Read more...] about Here’s how Microsoft is looking to make search smarter and more natural

Infrastructure is literally crumbling in many major cities. Fortunately, a number of new technologies are converging to assist in overdue inspections of vital infrastructure such as road and railway bridges."Typically, municipalities or private companies send out a large team of inspectors and need to close certain sections of the bridges to traffic," says Michael Diener, engineering manager at StrucInspect, a company focusing on improving on that method with technology. "And some areas are hard or impossible for a human inspector to reach, creating the risk that a defect might go unnoticed."Drones and 3D cameras can help. Vienna-based StrucInspect overcomes these challenges with an innovative service based on 3D modeling and artificial intelligence. The company captures thousands of images from drones and terrestrial cameras to create a precise 3D replica of the structure's exterior and interior—including hard-to-reach places. Then customers receive a full report, including a … [Read more...] about How the cloud, an army of drones, and 3D mesh is saving the world’s vital infrastructure

What happens when you discover you're not actually real but just a background character trapped inside a video game?In the upcoming movie Free Guy, Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool) plays a bank teller inside a video game who works at a bank that always seems to get robbed. His character, Guy, soon realizes he's not real, but just a background character in a violent open-world video game called Free City (think Grand Theft Auto) that's about to be discontinued. And it's up to Guy to save his world. Additional cast members include Taika Waititi (JoJo Rabbit), Jodie Comer (Killing Eve), Joe Keery (Stranger Things), Lil Rel Howery (Get Out), Utkarsh Ambudkar (Pitch Perfect 2) and Channing Tatum (The Hateful Eight).Free Guy director Shawn Levy, and actors Reynolds, Comer, Keery, Howery and Ambudkar, showed footage from the film and talked about their characters at the New York Comic Con 20th Century Fox panel on Thursday."Ryan and I have talked about Free Guy as a superhero origin … [Read more...] about NYCC: Ryan Reynolds gets trapped in a video game in movie Free Guy

Artificial Intelligence—or, if you prefer, Machine Learning—is today's hot buzzword. Unlike many buzzwords have come before it, though, this stuff isn't vaporware dreams—it's real, it's here already, and it's changing your life whether you realize it or not. A quick overview of AI/ML Before we go too much further, let's talk quickly about that term "Artificial Intelligence." Yes, it's warranted; no, it doesn't mean KITT from Knight Rider, or Samantha, the all-too-human unseen digital assistant voiced by Scarlett Johansson in 2013's Her. Aside from being fictional, KITT and Samantha are examples of strong artificial intelligence, also known as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). On the other hand, artificial intelligence—without the "strong" or "general" qualifiers—is an established academic term dating back to the 1955 proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Project on Artificial Intelligence (DSRPAI), written by Professors John McCarthy and Marvin … [Read more...] about Cloudy with a chance of neurons: The tools that make neural networks work