While such tools offer possibilities for extending knowledge and developing new research methods, they are very much a multi-edged sword that bring significant challenges.
The mark of a civilised society is how it treats its sick and vulnerable and so whenever technology is broached in healthcare, people are sceptical – particularly if it means removing that all-important human touch.
Flagship devices today all come equipped with specialised AI processing chips, known and neural engines or neural processing units, from Apple’s A12 Bionic CPU to Huawei’s Kirin 980 or Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845, and more and more tasks are using their advanced processing capabilities.
Contrary to stories throughout the media, a supercomputer called “Eugene Goostman” did not pass the Turing Test of artificial intelligence last week.
A “super computer” has become the first machine to pass the Turing Test, the iconic measure of artificial intelligence (AI).