The strengths and limitations of robot journalism were debated at the recent European Conference of Science Journalism
Read article: Will AI bots ever replace science journalists? (And no, this was written by a human)
Routine mammography programmes impose significant workloads on clinical staff; soon, commercial AI systems might help take the strain
Read article: AI rivals human radiologists at breast-cancer detection
An artificial-intelligence blogger and a nanotech entrepreneur are our guests this week
Read article: The funny and sinister sides of machine learning, how to make nanoparticles by the tonne
Margaret Harris reviews You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane
Read article: Artificial stupidity
Astrophysics algorithm is applied to seismic waves
Read article: Artificial intelligence spots unusual feature at Earth’s core-mantle boundary
Findings will be important for planetary science as well as condensed-matter physics
Read article: Machine learning teases out differences in high-pressure ice phases
Susan Curtis reviews The Road to Conscious Machines: the Story of AI by Michael Wooldridge
Read article: Can a machine think?
Combining artificial intelligence algorithms with radiologist assessment can improve the accuracy of detecting cancer in screening mammograms
Read article: Crowdsourced AI challenge aims to improve mammography accuracy
Anatole von Lilienfeld explains how machine learning is creating new opportunities for research across all areas of the physical sciences
Read article: A broader range of experiments
Artificial intelligence-derived image features predict prostate cancer recurrence with high accuracy
Read article: Opening the AI box: can deep learning predict cancer recurrence?
