How Drones and Computer Vision are Used to Enhance Crop Yield
Drones or UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) are propelling a revolution in farming and agriculture. In 2019, the FAO published E-Agriculture in Action: Drones for Agriculture, a detailed guide and roadmap of how drones are being used in agriculture, and the best practices for...
Ultimate Guide to LIDAR
Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) is a remote sensing and mapping technology designed to measure the dimensions and topography of terrain and 3D spaces. While LIDAR has been in development since the 1960s, recent developments in laser sensing and data...
Predicting Crime With AI: Navigating Ethical Issues
In June 2022, a cross-discipline team of researchers at the University of Chicago created an AI model that could predict the location and rate of crime in the city with 90% accuracy. The team utilized citywide crime open data between...
AI Embodies The Bias Of Internet Content
OpenAI is a significant player in the modern artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) space. While the parent company is a non-profit, it also consists of a for-profit company that received a $1 billion investment from Microsoft in 2019....
Using AI and Machine Learning to Decipher Ancient Languages
he Sumerians inhabited Mesopotamia some 6000 years ago, the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, Turkey, and Syria. Mesopotamia marks humanity’s transition from small agricultural settlements to larger urban societies. The first cities were built...
What is a Human-in-the-Loop?
Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) models still largely require the input of humans to train, tune and test models to ensure their accuracy and performance. When humans are positioned in the ML and AI loop or cycle, they...
Top 10 Books on Machine Learning and AI
Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) are foundational technologies in today’s technologically evolved and hyper-digital era. Computers changed the world, but ML and AI are changing computers by equipping them with the ability to process complex information at unprecedented...
The Impacts of Bad AI
AI is a force of good, right? That’s what the industry must strive for, but the positive impacts of AI are far from guaranteed. AI is the hallmark technology of our era, but it’s entangled in risks, and even die-hard...
Digital Cryptids: How AI is Making Monsters
AI-generated art has become a hot topic. We now live in a world where AI art engines like DALL-E 2, MidJourney and Stable Diffusion create spectacular artworks that seem to possess the artistic skill, expansive imagination and visionary creativity we associate...
Speech Recognition: Opportunities and Challenges
Audio and text transcription has long been a cornerstone of machine learning. There are two core functions of audio and speech transcription, which partly sit within the natural language processing (NLP) discipline of artificial intelligence. The first function is turning speech...