Category: AI

Use of cognitive computing to antibiotic resistance

Well, this article made no sense to me, but I believe it will help future research into pandemics of all sorts.

What does it do? It uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to work out possible drug combinations to help address resistance to hard to kill infections.

Why should you care? Well, improving the speed of drug research, as seen by the recent pandemic, is an important development.

Why do I care? Because it was achieved by IBMers as can be seen by the Github link at the end of that article.

There’s more I am sure to come from this and I look forward to more results sharing in due course.

Watch and enjoy football?

I work for a small technology company some folk might have heard about before – IBM. Yes, International Business Machines – that IBM. (That might mean I’m biased, but when you read and watch the stuff below, you might understand that!)

I’m not the world’s biggest football fan (soccer for those Americans out there). But I like the odd match. When I read something on our internal news system about IBM’s Watson technology helping Leatherhead FC, this sounded both strange and amazing at the same time.

Watch this video and see if you’re equally impressed:

Do you speak to Siri/Alexa/Google?

I often ask Siri to switch on, or off, lights around the house – yes I am that geek.

But I also find I reply back to Siri when a confirmation is made, like when I ask for a piece of music or playlist to be played, Siri will confirm, and I say thank you.

So this new idea, just sounds right up my street. And when you watch the video, you might also be thinking, “what else can this do for me”?

Apple/CMU researchers show dumb devices made smart by HomePod listening

To me, this just feels like a natural next step, and I sort of wonder why no one has done this yet anyway. Then I remember, it’s amazingly tough to make some of the things that we take for granted as natural for us, happen within or by a computer system.

I really want to see this happen sooner than later.

A colleague’s view on AI and IA

Full disclosure, Mike is a colleague who I have known for a few years and he is a mighty “brain box”.
Really fun to work with as well.
Anyone knows about AI (Artificial Intelligence) these days and often may be worried about where it’s going.
To be honest it’s a way off being self aware, so panic ye not.
But we do need to understand and better prepare for the future, which needs to include good preparation.
Mike’s blog post explains that in relatively easy terminology, no mean feat in my experience.
Check it out.
https://medium.com/@michael.mccawley/ai-is-not-magic-534af0bba4ff