👶 Controlling Birth With A.I.
Algorology Digest #9: Predicting Death, Machine Augmented Teachers
Researchers have recently found algorithms to be more accurate than embryologists at pinpointing which embryos had the potential to result in the birth of a healthy baby.
The proposed algorithms are able to analyze 24 image characteristics of embryos that are invisible to the human eye. These include the size of the embryo, texture of the image and biological characteristics such as the number and homogeneity of cells.
Quite a fascinating research considering the fact that Stanford professors are predicting humans to stop using sex to procreate.
💀 Predicting Death With Algorithms
Another topic of research is the followed by the same ability of machine intelligence to capture the unseen characteristics of an object to predict the chance of a person dying. This way we will almost certainly have algorithms control who is born and when someone is about to die. Even though the accuracy of “death prediction” is still not as good, researchers are aiming to improve accuracy as much as possible in the near term.
“I think there is an upper limit on how accurate we can be, because there is always going to be an element of randomness,” he says, replying to how well AI will be able to pinpoint individual human mortality. “But we can be much more precise than we are now, taking more of each individual’s risks and strengths into account. A model combining all of those factors will hopefully account for more than 80 percent of the risk of near-term mortality.”
⚠️ Ethical Consequences Of Machine Intelligence
Article based on a really relevant 56-page white paper published by UK-RAS, the umbrella body for British robotics research:
🏫 Reinventing Education With Augmented Teachers
Human amplification is definitely the next hot topic in the education industry. And augmented teachers will completely wipe out the traditional tutoring within the next decade as per the recent consumer survey presented by PwC.
🐟 Navigating A Robot Fish
And of course, what can be more fun than piloting a robot fish?
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