Gigaom AI Minute – June 6

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3D printing, Alzheimer’s, the study of rat brains, and lifespan prediction are making news in today’s AI Minute.

Transcript

  • Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute has released a drag and drop design tool allowing even novice roboticists to build and print custom 3D robot components and off-the-shelf actuators. The tool includes compatible structural components and provides a simulation environment used to test the robot before fabricating it. Read more.
  • Doctors may soon be able to test patients who suffer mild cognitive impairment for their likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s. Collaborators from Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, and China’s Huazhong University of Science and Technology have combined fMRI scans and deep learning to deliver predictions 20 percent more accurate than other classification methods. Read more.
  • The U.S. government is studying rat brains to help reverse engineer human intelligence. Machine intelligence from Cortical Networks (Microns) is a five-year, $100 million dollar program funded by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency. The agency is seeking to discover the neural “circuits” activated when the visual cortex is at work. Read more.
  • Would you ask AI to predict your lifespan? Science Daily reports the technology may soon be used to evaluate images of your organs and predict the likelihood of death within five years. Researchers in Australia used AI to predict which patients would die within five years, with 69 percent accuracy.” Read more.
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