🧠 Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) helps doctors make better diagnoses, scientists create new materials, farmers grow crops more effectively and all of us driving cars - and millions of other applications. This topic also covers subsets of AI such as machine learning (ML), deep learning and neural networks.
💡 Optimist's Edge: AI is unleashing a massive wave of creativity
💡 AI will unleash massive untapped creativity by us tools to create things that before only were available to professionals. This unleashed creativity will create millions of jobs and tons of human progress.
🤖 Robot collects rare minerals from the seafloor
A company has proven that sustainable ocean mining is possible with the world's first hovering robot.
🚘 Wake up! Self-driving cars are almost here
Negative headlines and pessimism are now trying to fool us that full self-driving is not happening anytime soon. That is wrong.
💡 Optimist's Edge: You can also be an artist – with the help of an AI
💡 AI painting upends creative boundaries by empowering anyone to create art that previously required the skill of professional artists.
🌳 CTrees: A platform that calculates the carbon in every tree on Earth
A new startup has designed a platform that uses artificial intelligence to track exactly how much carbon every tree on the earth stores. This can help scientists determine the extent to which trees are helping the planet.
🔥 AI can halve the risk of forest fires
An AI can show where the risk of forest fires is greatest and which strategies work best to prevent the fires.
🚝 An automatic robot can give us better maintenance of the railway
Researchers have produced a prototype of a robot that independently detects and repairs damage to the rails.
💡 Optimist's Edge: Let AI find the talents for you
With the help of artificial intelligence, recruitment becomes less costly, accuracy is higher, it's more skills-based and there is less risk of prejudices leading to incorrect recruitment.
🪸 AI is used to save coral reefs
A group of islanders in the South Pacific is using AI to save coral reefs.