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News Articles: Artificial intelligence

The "Proximity Dress" which expands to reinforce social distancing when someone gets too close.

Fashion and Tech Join Forces To Create A Dress That Signals When People Get Too Close

Dutch fashion designer and engineer Anouk Wipprecht distinctive 'fashion tech' designs combine couture, interactive technology and artificial intelligence.

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  • Kelley Dickens
UCSF neurosurgeon Edward Chang says a system that lets a man express his thoughts at 15 words a minute is just the beginning for computer-mediated communication.

Experimental Brain Implant Lets Man With Paralysis Turn His Thoughts Into Words

A stroke left a man paralyzed and speechless. Now a device that decodes brain signals is letting him generate words and sentences.

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  • Jon Hamilton
Sierra Leone's minister of education and chief innovation officer David Moinina Sengeh is a man of many talents. He's using mobile phone technology to improve daily life, he invented a way to make a prosthetic limb with a computer-assisted technique and he's a singer and rapper and a clothing designer, too.

This Education Minister Is A Renaissance Man (And He's Got A Music Video To Prove It)

Sierra Leone's education minister and MIT graduate David Moinina Sengeh is shooting for the moon when it comes to his country's future, from schools to health-care to ... space travel.

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  • Jason Beaubien
A Kargu rotary-wing attack drone loitering munition system manufactured by the STM defense company of Turkey. A U.N. report says the weapons system was used in Libya in March 2020.

A Military Drone With A Mind Of Its Own Was Used In Combat, U.N. Says

Autonomous drones can fly themselves to a specific location, pick their own targets and kill without the assistance of a remote human operator. The U.N. says such a drone was in the air in March 2020.

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  • Joe Hernandez
Facebook's content moderators say the company is putting their health at risk by pressuring them to return to the office.

'Without Our Work, Facebook Is Unusable': Content Moderators Demand Safer Offices

The social network largely outsources its content review jobs. Workers say they are now under pressure to return to the office despite the pandemic.

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  • Shannon Bond
"The fact is, these algorithms are learning from us, and we're not perfect," says Dr. Ayanna Howard, chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech.

How Artificial Intelligence Reflects Human Biases - And How It Can Improve

Whether you're searching something on Google, assessing a mortgage rate, or applying for a job, much of our lives today is informed by artificial...

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Malcolm Gladwell speaks to On Second Thought host Virginia Prescott about newest book, "Talking to Strangers."

In 'Talking To Strangers,' Malcolm Gladwell Explores How We Misread People We Don't Know

Revisionist History podcast host Malcolm Gladwell's books have opened up new ways to consider human behavior — introducing concepts like "stickiness,"...

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John P. Imlay Junior Dean Charles Isbell joins GPB's On Second Thought.

Less Like HAL, More Like Help: Artificial Intelligence Applications In The Real World

Artificial intelligence is changing technology and is already shaping the world we live in, from using Siri and Alexa to choosing the best route home...

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On Second Thought For Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019

Atlanta magazine calculates students who graduate from some of Georgia’s largest schools end up with an average of $27,000 in debt. Before it’s time to...

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From Siri to suggested films on Netflix, artificial intelligence is everywhere.

Friday Roundtable: Artificial Intelligence And Social Media

It's Friday and you know what that means: It's time for On Second Thought's weekly roundtable. Today we gathered three people who work in tech to talk...

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Privacy concerns grow with facial recognition technology.

Is The Law Keeping Pace With Digital Evolution?

While Atlanta remains on Amazon’s short list for its second headquarters, not everyone likes what the company brings with it. Currently, the ACLU and...

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Educators from all over the country and as far away as South Africa have looked to Georgia State as a model for keeping students in school.

How Georgia State University Became A Beacon Of Change For Higher Education Everywhere

For the last five years, Georgia State University has awarded more bachelor's degrees to African-Americans than any other nonprofit college or...

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Middle school students from Dacula, Georgia, hope to bring home another win from the 2018 VEX Robotics World Championship.

STEM Students Ask: Can Robots Be Racist?

A group of middle school students from Dacula , Georgia, is preparing for a world championship. This weekend the “Robo Sapiens” will head to Louisville,...

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On Second Thought For Thursday, April 26, 2018

A group of middle school students from Dacula, Georgia, is preparing for a world championship. This weekend the “Robo Sapiens” will head to Louisville,...

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Dr. Howard with Darwin, a robotic assistant that helps children with disabilities accomplish physical therapy at home.

Ayanna Howard Answers, Robots: Friends Or Foes?

Robots are coming and sooner than you think. That’s according our guest this week on Two Way Street: Georgia Tech robotics expert, Ayanna Howard ....

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