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Bloomberg Philanthropies and Johns Hopkins University launch Mayors AI Forum at City Lab
14+ hour, 51+ min ago (365+ words) Johns Hopkins University By Evan Serpick / Published April 28, 2026 To help city leaders around the world implement best practices for deploying artificial intelligence in critical public and private systems, Bloomberg Philanthropies and Johns Hopkins University announced the launch of the Mayors…...
Small changes make some AI systems more brain-like than others
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (322+ words) Credit: Macrovector / Getty Images Artificial intelligence systems that are designed with a biologically inspired architecture can simulate human brain activity before ever being trained on any data, according to new research from Johns Hopkins University. The findings, published in Nature…...
How machine learning can help optimize treatment for septic shock
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (317+ words) Credit: Will Kirk / Johns Hopkins University A multi-institutional research team has demonstrated how AI and machine learning can optimize therapy selection and dosing for septic shock, a life-threatening complication that is the leading cause of hospital deaths. The team includes…...
Finding the virtue in AI
10+ mon, 3+ day ago (578+ words) Credit: Juan M. Lavista Ferres When the news broke of wildfires raging across Los Angeles in January, Juan M. Lavista Ferres picked up the phone. Wanting to be a part of the aid response, the chief data scientist at Microsoft's AI for…...
Could artificial intelligence make war and peace decisions?
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (419+ words) Credit: Douglas Rissing / Getty Images NPR recently reported that the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Futures Lab is using Pentagon funding to experiment with using tools such as Deep Seek and Chat GPT to explore how artificial intelligence could…...