Tag: artificial intelligence

AI: Revolutionizing the landscape of mental health treatment

Posted December 16, 2024 by Guest Contributor

An AI generated image of an elderly man sitting on a couch with a humanoid looking robot.

If you’ve been plugged into the news recently, you might have heard a thing or two about artificial intelligence (AI). Whether it conjures up talking robots or 1980s Arnold Schwarzenegger films, artificial intelligence has become an increasingly popular topic. But, you might be wondering, what exactly is AI? In a broad sense, artificial intelligence refers to the ability of machines to mimic human cognitive functions, such as learning and problem-solving. In the realm of mental health, AI is rapidly emerging as a game-changer, offering exciting possibilities for diagnosis, treatment, and overall accessibility of care…

Demystifying Artificial Intelligence: A crash course in machine learning

Posted August 11, 2023 by sciutern

[An image of a human head; through the head are a series of orange wires forming a network reminiscent of the circuits on a computer chip.]

Artificial intelligence continues to make the news, especially with technologies like ChatGPT – an AI Chatbot – and DALL-E – an image-generating software – becoming increasingly accessible to the public. Reports of modified syllabi in colleges and universities and sentient chatbots may have piqued your interest recently, and for a good reason! AI has gradually become embedded in our daily lives as an influential tool for COVID-19 contact tracing, national security, healthcare, and much more…

Meet xenobots: The world’s first living robots

Posted October 23, 2021 by Vaishnavi Muralikrishnan

[(Left) Block like structure created using green and red blocks. (Right) A blob of cells red and green in color.]

What comes to mind when you think of machines? Perhaps structures made of metal, plastic, or ceramics. What if I told you scientists have built tiny robots from frog cells that can move, remember things, and heal themselves? I am talking about Xenobots 2.0, the world’s first living robots, which were made using cells derived from frog embryos…