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Artificial intelligence is already doing a lot for us behind the scenes, and a surge of new and better applications is on the way.
May 03, 2021
For all the fear mongering around artificial intelligence (AI) taking our jobs and ruling our lives, it has taken 70 years for the technology to get to the stage where it can perform basic human functions at scale and speed. AI can now beat professional chess players, answer customer queries, detect fraud, diagnose diseases and guide stock market investments. In fact, lot of our interactions today are already being shaped by mainstream AI without our even knowing it.
The pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. hasn’t performed well over the past year, but that poor showing means its stock price has remained at relatively.
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The Nobel laureate poet Sir Derek Walcott once said that the English language is nobody’s special property: “It is the property of the imagination.” Much the same could be said for science. It should be said. Except this isn’t quite so. Not yet.
Data on who is doing science has recently been released by the Royal Society, the UK’s premier scientific academy, using figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency, whose data is by far the most systematic
. The numbers show that in 2018-19, 19.2% of science, technology, engineering and maths academic staff aged 34 and under are Asian and 1.8% are black. In physics and chemistry, the proportion of black researchers stands at a sobering zero, rounded down, as these calculations do for ease of presentation, from literally one or two individuals. What’s interesting is that these small figures decrease further as a scientist’s age increases – as they travel through the hallowe
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The Faculty of Law at the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) has warned that despite being a new Bill, the National Identification and Registration Act (NIRA) (2020) still contains some of the privacy concerns that saw it being struck down in the Constitutional Court in April 2019.
At that time, the Full Court, comprising of Chief Justice Bryan Sykes and Justices Lisa Palmer and David Watts, sided with former People’s National Party General Secretary, Julian Robinson, that certain aspects of the controversial legislation breached the rights of Jamaicans to privacy as is guaranteed by the constitution.