For my last blog post of 2022, I will explore the explosion of new research results reported in two major conferences that happened in the past few weeks, first is […]

Digital mask  I saw a fascinating new research study published this week. The theme of the research is how to protect patient’s facial images and video in the context of […]

In this week’s blog, I trace the history and potential of the transformer architecture. Transformers is all you need Mention “transformers” to my grandkids and they get excited. But I […]

In this week’s blog, I examine what happens when an algorithm’s prediction is wrong. I also look into how deep learning is shaping weather forecasting. The last story is on […]

Code generation Over the years I have programmed in many languages, starting with Fortran IV in the early seventies. In those days, we had to punch the program instructions into […]

AI models for COVID-19 I was skimming through MIT Technology Review and I saw one article that stopped me cold. It proclaimed that hundreds of AI models were developed to […]

Future of health care I listened with fascination to Dr. Gordon Moore’s interview with Nicholas Webb, CEO of LeaderLogic, last week on the 3M Inside Angle podcast. Webb’s views on […]

This week I explore two polar opposite views: First, AI is hard and is nowhere close to performing at a human level, and second, AI is going to take away […]

Genius Makers by Cade Metz Last month the book, Genius Makers – The mavericks who brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the world was released. The title was quite intriguing, […]

This week’s AI Talk… Future of health I came across a press release from UCI Institute for “Future Health” which intrigued me. UCI Institute’s research mission and goal are in […]

This week’s AI Talk… Federal Health IT Strategic Plan The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published their latest five-year strategic plan for the 2020-2025 period. I’ve reviewed […]

Over the weekend I came across a nice summarization of recent advances in Conversational AI Agents and found these advances interesting. I covered GPT-3 in an earlier blog post, but […]