Tag Archives: neural networks

Artificial Intelligence has evolved to the point of making it possible to detect specific characteristics of a voice and then to imitate that voice through a speech syntheses application. It has become so effective that it created the issue of telling if the voice you hear is the one recorded …

In the June issue of “The Lancet Digital Health” an article is reporting the study undertaken by several researchers and medical doctors  (mostly from the University of Copenhagen) on data from more than 230,000 Danish patients who were hospitalised over the last 20 years at ICU (Intensive Care Unit). Clearly …

I cannot help but be amazed at how something  we not even notice being so natural, turns out to be extremely complex and difficult when we attempt to replicate in an artefact (e.g. implement that functionality in a computer). This is the case I became aware of when reading an …

Philosophers have been debating about awareness, consciousness and for long time have asserted that only us, humans, are conscious (whilst all living things need to have some sort of awareness to keep living…). Today we know that it is not just us, many, actually most, animal species have some degree …