Tag: artificial intelligence
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Predicting heatwaves with machine learning

The linked article is for SIAM News, the magazine for members of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). As such, I included some mathematical content, but I tried to write the piece so that you could gloss over that bit without losing the gist of the story. In any case, this is an…
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AI art is popular, but it is ethical?
The linked article is for SIAM News, the magazine for members of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). However, even though the main audience for this magazine is professional mathematicians, this article contains no mathematics whatsoever, but does contain possibly the worst pun I ever have contributed to a published article. [ This…
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Teaching AI to “Do No Harm”
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Is There an Artificial Intelligence in the House? For SIAM News: Medical care routinely involves life-or-death decisions, the allocation of expensive or rare resources, and ongoing management of real…
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The threat of AI comes from inside the house
My other SIAM News contributions are necessarily math-focused. This one is a bit different: a review of a very good and funny popular-science book about machine learning and its failures. [ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write!…
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Discovering new planets with artificial intelligence
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Thanks to Google AI, Astronomers Have Found New Planets They’re not habitable, but the dual discoveries change how we’re going to hunt for the next Earth. For The Daily…
