Health-care AI: The potential and pitfalls of diagnosis by app
As apps are direct-to-consumer health technologies, they represent a new folk medicine. Users adopt these technologies based on trust rather...
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IQ tests: the danger of reading too much into them – and the crucial cognitive skills they don’t measure
SpeedKingz/ShutterstockMany people object to intelligence tests. Some say IQ test scores are too often abused. They says it’s unfair that...
How governments handle data matters for inclusion
Do you feel included in how government handles and uses data? AP Photo/Patrick SemanskyGovernments increasingly rely on large amounts of...
Deepfakes in South Africa: protecting your image online is the key to fighting them
Deepfakes pose serious dangers. Arkadiusz Warguła/iStockLeanne Manas is a familiar face on South African televisions. Towards the end of 2023...
Colleges are using AI to prepare hospitality workers of the future
If you’re planning to go into the hospitality industry, the pathway is increasingly going to involve some sort of familiarity...
OpenAI’s new generative tool Sora could revolutionize marketing and content creation
Sora could serve as a tool that enhances the capabilities of content creators, allowing them to produce higher-quality content more...
Dementia can be predicted more than a decade before diagnosis with these blood proteins
Andrey Popov/ShutterstockIn the largest study of its kind, scientists have discovered that a blood test detecting specific proteins could predict...
What is Sora? A new generative AI tool could transform video production and amplify disinformation risks
OpenAILate last week, OpenAI announced a new generative AI system named Sora, which produces short videos from text prompts. While...
Lung cancer: Predicting which patients are at high risk of recurrence to improve outcomes
Chemotherapy is used to treat all lung cancer patients. Yet many would not need such invasive treatment if diagnosis of...
AI has a large and growing carbon footprint, but there are potential solutions on the horizon
Gorodenkoff / ShutterstockGiven the huge problem-solving potential of artificial intelligence (AI), it wouldn’t be far-fetched to think that AI could...
