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Apr 4, 2024 | 
blog.dropbox.com | Graham Isador |Drew Pearce |Matthew Braga
Manatees can be tricky to count—even for trained professionals. But scientists might find some help with a new machine learning method.
The Florida manatee—one of the state’s most beloved creatures—is big (9-10 feet long, 1,000 pounds plus)—and generally slow. The hefty aquatic beasts forage in warm, shallow waters all day in pursuit of an average 100 pounds of seagrass, and have no natural predators. Not even alligators, strangely.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
blog.dropbox.com | Graham Isador |Drew Pearce |Matthew Braga
Machine learning in the field of eco-acoustics is allowing scientists to catalog wildlife where they otherwise couldn’t. Here’s how it could change conservation.
To understand what’s happening in the world's remote forests, crucial for both the resident species and the planet's health, we must catalog their contents. The challenge? It's a task that's difficult and expensive to perform manually.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
blog.dropbox.com | Graham Isador |Drew Pearce |Matthew Braga
For one of the world’s leading robotics and AI experts, human beings are the center of the story.
The robots are coming, and Daniela Rus is OK with that. As the director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT and a MacArthur fellow, Rus has been at the forefront of robotics and AI for decades.
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Feb 25, 2024 | 
blog.dropbox.com | Graham Isador |Drew Pearce |Matthew Braga
After growing up with the sounds of Cheyenne, software engineer Michael Running Wolf is now harnessing AI to ensure that language's survival, and beyond.
Indigenous languages are facing a steep decline: ninety percent are at risk of not being passed on to younger generations, while seventy percent are spoken by only a handful of individuals, predominantly elders. "Essentially, we're racing against time.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
blog.dropbox.com | Graham Isador |Drew Pearce |Matthew Braga
Artificial intelligence is making huge waves in psychotherapy—and not just through the use of chatbots. One psychologist and researcher argues that AI might even teach your next therapist how to improve patient outcomes.
With clinical depression affecting nearly 20% of Americans, the urgent need for effective treatment is underscored by challenges in accessing mental health care. Many people lack health insurance. Others struggle to find an in-network provider.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
hazlitt.net | Kelly Boutsalis |Alison Motluk |Matthew Braga |Richa Kaul Padte
I have the fuzziest recollection of the first time I heard a land acknowledgement, likely at an artist talk at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2016 or so. I would’ve been around thirty-five years old, and when the event host recited the acknowledgement, I was…confused. It turned out that this was my first of many land acknowledgements I would experience. They would roll out time and time again, in educational, entertainment and sporting spaces, gaining steam over the last decade.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
blog.dropbox.com | Drew Pearce |Matthew Braga |Graham Isador
When your mission is monitoring life in the vastness of the ocean, conventional technology can only take you so far.
For three decades, a team at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has been collecting tens of thousands of hours of video data and building an annotation reference system to sift through it all.
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Jan 5, 2024 | 
blog.dropbox.com | Matthew Braga |Graham Isador |Drew Pearce
In rural areas where America's healthcare issues are most acute, artificial intelligence could emerge as an ally.
In the vast rural areas of the U.S., where about one in every five Americans lives, the landscape varies widely—from Alabama's farmlands to the winding valleys of West Virginia, all the way out to Nevada's high desert. But all these diverse areas share a common healthcare crisis.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
blog.dropbox.com | Matthew Braga |Graham Isador |Drew Pearce |Yiren Lu
Any writer will tell you that, when it comes to writing, only part of the process is actually spent writing. First, you have to arrange your desk. The chair should be comfortable, the temperature just right. You should also put on a pot of coffee or tea, and—oh, have snacks at the ready in case hunger strikes. Come to think of it, when was the last time you checked the mail?
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
blog.dropbox.com | Wudan Yan |Tomi Akitunde |Drew Pearce |Matthew Braga
Gestura designs kitchen tools that won't end up in your junk drawer. The founder relies on Dropbox Dash to keep everything straight.
Chefs and cooks tend to be an obsessive sort, from their approach to pairing flavors down to how they plate a dish. But their preoccupations can go beyond the art of cooking. Take Gabriel Rudolph for example.
