Humanity May Achieve the Singularity Within the Next 3 Months, Scientists Suggest

Some experts predict the singularity will occur by 2026. But how close are we really to artificial general intelligence?

This Recession-Forecasting Algorithm Hasn't Been Wrong in 65 Years -- and It Has an Ominous Message for Wall Street

This has been a roller coaster year for the S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite, and Dow Jones Industrial Average, with all three enduring a mini-crash and a rip-roaring rally to new highs. A new ...
Medscape

Race Adjustments in Algorithms Boost CRC Risk Prediction

Accounting for racial disparities, including in the quality of family history data, enhanced the predictive performance of a colorectal cancer (CRC) risk prediction model. The medical community is ...
WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Here's how the fashion industry is using AI to predict the next big trend

Once the province of elite fashion editors and forecasters, the art of figuring out what's likely to fly off future racks is ...
TechSpot

UK government developing homicide prediction algorithm to identify potential violent offenders

WTF?! There have been several stories over the years about different governments creating crime-predicting algorithms, leading to comparisons to the 2002 movie Minority Report – even though that film ...

Algorithm extracts interpretable information from weather data to improve AI models

Long-term weather forecasting is a difficult task, partly because weather systems are inherently chaotic. Though mathematical ...
Harvard Business Review

Algorithms Make Better Predictions — Except When They Don’t

Predictive analytics is proving itself both powerful and perilous. Powerful, because advanced algorithms can take a near-unlimited number of factors into account, provide deep insights into variation, ...