LUCA Artificial Intelligence of Things, how things plan to make our lives simpler Just as in the Grimm Brothers fairy tale where two little elves teamed up to help the cobbler have a better life, Artificial Intelligence and IoT, Big Data technologies...
Patrick Buckley The Hologram Concert – How AI is helping to keep music alive When Whitney Houston passed away in 2012, the world was shocked by the sudden and tragic news of her death. Fans gathered around the Beverly Hills hotel in Los...
Richard Benjamins. Big Data and Elections: We shine a light on Trump and Clinton Twitter is widely used as a tool to understand and predict phenomena in the real world. Today on our blog, we have been using Twitter to understand the US Presidential...
Patrick Buckley How AI & IoT will save the Aviation Industry As we approach Christmas 2020, the success of various COVID-19 vaccines across the world is beginning to fill us all with a new-found sense of optimism, that, ...
LUCA Deep Learning and satellite images to estimate the impact of COVID19 Motivated by the fact that the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has caused worldwide turmoil in a short period of time since December 2019, we estimate the negative impact of...
LUCA Success Story: LUCA Transit and Highways England The transport industry is very receptive to the application of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence strategies, as there are clear use cases that can maximize a companies’ efficiency and...
LUCA Open Data and API’s in Video Games: League of Legends puts them to practice Written by David Heras an intern at LUCA alongside Javier Carro a LUCA Data Scientist. When we at LUCA became aware of the release of the upcoming Movistar eSports we wanted to give a nod to fans of...
LUCA Can Big Data and IOT prevent motorcycle crashes? Most of us are familiar with the dangers involved in driving motorbikes, with motorcyclists being 27 times more likely than passenger car occupants to die in a crash per...
Telemedicine, the new age of HealthcareOlivia Brookhouse 17 January, 2020 Healthcare always seems to lag behind other consumer technology, lacking innovation and remaining inefficient. This is partially due to regulatory restriction but also an unwillingness to adapt and innovate by healthcare professionals. Telemedicine is starting to infiltrate this industry, providing remote care via mobile phones and diagnosing diseases using Artificial Intelligence. If intelligent speakers can tell us how to bake a cake, why can’t they tell us how to get better? The core aim of Telemedicine is to make quality healthcare affordable and accessible all over the world, to work in harmony with doctors and subsidise the areas where there are healthcare shortages. AI Chatbots for primary care Telemedicine start-ups are changing the game in areas where healthcare is hard to access and very expensive. In India, for every 1,000 citizens, there is only 1 doctor but 700 mobile phones. Instead of investing in expensive infrastructure, companies are taking advantage of the infrastructure we already have in our pockets, our phones. Artificial Intelligence applications, such as Babylon’s interactive symptom checker, which has been developed by qualified doctors and computer scientists using deep learning. The chatbot provides a platform to establish a likely diagnosis and build a digital twin of your health profile, all from the comfort of your mobile phone. The system will then automatically put you in touch with a specialist within 24 hours via a video call to discuss the symptoms further. Using Natural language processing, the system can scribe the conversation, suggesting further questions to ask, possible causes and treatments. AI is not a threat to the medical profession; it just became the best assistant Remote patient monitoring In 2020, experts believe we will start to see the introduction of remote patient monitoring (RPM), thanks to hospital at home devices. This will help monitor chronic conditions and elderly patients to support their in-person care. Wearable IoT devices can monitor heart rate and blood pressure, sending data in real time to healthcare providers. In the future we can expect to see the introduction of IoT ingestible devices to provide highly accurate data on patient’s insulin levels for diabetics, vitals levels, active infections etc. They currently face many challenges to ensure ingestible are safe to ingest and can continue functioning without losing charge or breaking within the human body. Applications for diagnosis and treatment We have also started to see the incorporation of AI software within hospitals to improve the accuracy of diagnosis. Just a few days ago, Googles DeepMind AI software was able to identify breast cancer more accurately than radiologists proving that doctors must start incorporating these Artificial Intelligence technologies into their practices or fall behind. Allowing AI to automate laborious processes, means doctors can focus more on care advice and treatment. The human like qualities that doctors provide; reassurance, care and empathy cannot be replicated by an app. Telesurgery The technology enables expert surgeons to operate from the other side of the world with highly intelligent robotics connected to the internet. 5G is expected to accelerate the capabilities in telesurgery as it relies on extremely fast internet speed to provide accurate haptic feedback. If there is even a slight delay in what the remote surgeon can feel via the robot hands, there is a high chance of error. It is expected to reduce the second latency period from 0.27 to 0.01 seconds! The next decade promises exciting things for the development of AI, in all industries and in every part of our lives. Follow us on Twitter to make sure you don’t miss anything our series of #LUCAtothefuture. Read about the ethical issues which accompany the development of many of these technologies. To stay up to date with LUCA, visit our Webpage, subscribe to LUCA Data Speaks and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn o YouTube. What to expect from Artificial Intelligence in 2020?Artificial Intelligence or Cognitive Intelligence? The buzz words of business
Patrick Buckley The Hologram Concert – How AI is helping to keep music alive When Whitney Houston passed away in 2012, the world was shocked by the sudden and tragic news of her death. Fans gathered around the Beverly Hills hotel in Los...
Patrick Buckley Robot Waiters – The future or just a gimmick? As we continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, the hospitality industry is looking to technology as a way to keep workers safe. Could robot waiters be the answer? In...
Patrick Buckley How will AI change the labour market for the better? From the way we shop, to the way we learn, the digital world in which we live is unrecognisable from the reality of a decade ago. One area which...
Patrick Buckley How AI is helping fashion retailers stay afloat With an estimated current global market value surpassing 406 billion USD, the fashion industry is one of the most significant yet vulnerable industries out there. In an ever-worsening socio-economic...
LUCA La transformación digital en la gestión del agua, ahora más que nunca Hoy en día mantenemos la incertidumbre de cuándo dispondremos de una vacuna o cuál será el impacto real en la sociedad y en la economía que nos deja esta...
Patrick Buckley Thanks to AI, the future of video-conferencing is in sight. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, video-conferencing has become the backbone of both our work and social lives. Today, on #WorldHugDay, we take a look at some of the ways in which...