Ever since age 14, the 65-year-old inventor of everything from music synthesizers to speech recognition systems has aimed to create a true artificial intelligence, even going so far as to predict that machines would match human intelligence by 2029.
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Dr Michael Detmar, from the Massachussetts General Hospital Cutaneous Biology Research Center, said that measuring the number of these vessels in human tumours could help doctors predict the likelihood of spread outside the breast.
What seems to be attractive in science is no longer its being a high intellectual activity, a continuous human search to represent and predict nature, but for what it can produce in terms of controlling, and therefore in terms of power, of mankind on his sorroundings and his fellows.
Facebook is so vast and tells such a complete story of us as social beings, that by analyzing it in smart ways, we can actually do things that were never possible before in human history, such as accurately predict where we should work, who we should date or how much money we will make during our lifetime.
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Although the nature of human creativity does not allow us to predict exactly what will come out of the privatization of currency, it is only logical to conclude that the increased stability and predictability of private currencies will also allow the development of value-creating endeavors that otherwise would not be feasible.
In Click, his fast-selling book released earlier this month, he argues that the ISP's massive data dump can tell us what consumers want, predict the economic future and maybe even offer insight into human nature.
Analyzing raw data derived from specially designed social sensing ID badges that collect quantitative data on human behavior, Waber began drawing out patterns to help predict outcomes in a variety of situations.
In this month's issue of Human Reproduction they have published a mathematical model which tries to predict when a woman will enter the menopause by linking two separate sets of published observations.
The trick, says human-resources-technology consultant Elaine Orler of Talent Function Group, is building software that can predict a good fit between candidate and employer.
Human flu pandemics are expected three to four times every century, though it is still hard to predict when or where the next one will begin.
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