Read article: AI rivals human radiologists at breast-cancer detection
Routine mammography programmes impose significant workloads on clinical staff; soon, commercial AI systems might help take the strain
Read article: The funny and sinister sides of machine learning, how to make nanoparticles by the tonne
An artificial-intelligence blogger and a nanotech entrepreneur are our guests this week
Read article: Artificial stupidity
Margaret Harris reviews You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane
Read article: Artificial intelligence spots unusual feature at Earth’s core-mantle boundary
Astrophysics algorithm is applied to seismic waves
Read article: Machine learning teases out differences in high-pressure ice phases
Findings will be important for planetary science as well as condensed-matter physics
Read article: Can a machine think?
Susan Curtis reviews The Road to Conscious Machines: the Story of AI by Michael Wooldridge
Read article: Crowdsourced AI challenge aims to improve mammography accuracy
Combining artificial intelligence algorithms with radiologist assessment can improve the accuracy of detecting cancer in screening mammograms
Read article: A broader range of experiments
Anatole von Lilienfeld explains how machine learning is creating new opportunities for research across all areas of the physical sciences
Read article: Opening the AI box: can deep learning predict cancer recurrence?
Artificial intelligence-derived image features predict prostate cancer recurrence with high accuracy
Read article: Artificial intelligence reveals how light flows around nanoparticles
New technique could be used to design a wide range of optical devices
