As AI proliferates, Long Island carves out a sweet spot
By BRAD CARLSON // We can’t go long without seeing or hearing something about artificial intelligence these days. It burst onto the public scene with the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT…
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As AI evolves, the battle for control begins in court
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // In a haunting scene from 1968’s iconic “2001: A Space Odyssey,” sentient computer HAL 9000 turns off two astronauts’ life-support systems so it can assume…
Top techsperts carry CEWIT 2022 back to school
By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook University’s season of colossal conferences continues next week, and this time, the future of … well, everything … is on the line. Just weeks…
‘Transformative’ Northwell lands on Google Cloud
By GREGORY ZELLER // A high-caliber partnership between New York’s largest healthcare provider and the planet’s preeminent search engine will advance clinician care, patient experiences and other critical healthcare avenues….
Bot matrix: Scientists spot social spambots’ tip-off tell
By GREGORY ZELLER // With so much concern over artificial intelligence-powered devices listening to us, are we paying enough attention to what AI is saying? They certainly are at Stony…
In real-time health platform, a billion points of data
By GREGORY ZELLER // New York’s largest healthcare provider is contributing to a national program that will save lives with digital data. Billed as “the world’s first health system-led data…
Machine learning shines in weather-forecasting study
By GREGORY ZELLER // Jokes about the weatherman’s predictive powers will be harder to land, if artificial intelligence takes over the long-range forecasting. That’s according to a new scientific study…
A century later, 1918 pandemic’s lessons resonate
By TERRY LYNAM // Given COVID-19’s unprecedented nature and global impact, many analysts and health officials have drawn parallels to the 1918 Spanish Flu, which according to the U.S. Centers…
Northwell machine-learning tool sees COVID’s future
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new “predictive tool” developed by Northwell Health can spot COVID-19 outbreaks weeks before they happen. That’s the word from the New Hyde Park-based healthcare system,…
Laugh, and your super-accelerated AI laughs with you
By GREGORY ZELLER // New York Institute of Technology computer-science researchers are pushing artificial intelligence ever closer to human norms – including efforts to help AI better understand human emotion….