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·November 1, 2023·4 min read

Machine Learning Deciphers News Language to Predict Country’s Peace Level

Researchers devised a machine learning model that gauges a country's peace level by analyzing word frequency in its news media. By studying over 723,000 articles from 18 countries, the team identified distinct linguistic patterns corresponding to varying peace levels.

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·April 15, 2023·4 min read

AI Can Spot Early Signs of Alzheimer’s in Speech Patterns

Artificial intelligence can detect signs of mild cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease, even when no symptoms are apparent, by analyzing a person's speech. The technology could be used as a simple screening method to identify early signs of cognitive impairment.

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·March 2, 2023·5 min read

AI Predicts Cancer Patient Survival by Reading Doctor’s Notes

A new natural language processing algorithm is able to sift through doctors' notes and predict a cancer patient's survival rate over the next 60 months with 80% accuracy.

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·December 23, 2022·6 min read

Can the AI Driving ChatGPT Help to Detect Early Signs of Alzheimer’s Disease?

OpenAI's ChatGPT program can identify clues from spontaneous speech that are 80% accurate in predicting the early stages of dementia.

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·October 12, 2022·2 min read

AI That Can Learn Patterns of Human Language

A new artificial intelligence model automatically learns higher-level language patterns that can apply to different languages, enabling it to achieve better results.

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·June 19, 2022·4 min read

AI Detects Autism Speech Patterns Across Different Languages

Machine learning algorithms help researchers identify speech patterns in children on the autism spectrum that are consistent between different languages.

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·June 18, 2022·5 min read

Can Computers Understand Complex Words and Concepts?

Artificial intelligence can understand complex words and concepts by representing the meaning of words in a similar way that correlates with human judgments.

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·November 8, 2021·3 min read

Want to Throw off Your Chatbot? Use Figurative Language

When chatbots are faced with human interaction containing similes and idioms, their performance falls to between 10 to 20%.

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·May 8, 2021·5 min read

Researchers Develop Artificial Intelligence That Can Detect Sarcasm in Social Media

A newly developed artificial intelligence algorithm can accurately detect sarcasm in comments written on social media platforms.

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·April 18, 2019·3 min read

Why language technology can’t handle Game of Thrones (yet)

Researchers improved the performance of natural language processing technology to increase recognitionion of names associated with characters in Game of Thrones, and other literature, from 7% to 90%.

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·March 20, 2019·7 min read

Brain-inspired AI inspires insights about the brain (and vice versa)

A new deep learning system is able to predict, with great accuracy, how different brain areas respond to specific words. The model also found concepts localized to the auditory cortex are less dependent on context.