{"id":129144,"date":"2021-10-18T08:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/a-new-nobel-computer-scientist-wins-1-million-artificial-intelligence-prize"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:22:17","slug":"a-new-nobel-computer-scientist-wins-1-million-artificial-intelligence-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/a-new-nobel-computer-scientist-wins-1-million-artificial-intelligence-prize","title":{"rendered":"A \u201cNew Nobel\u201d \u2014 Computer Scientist Wins $1 Million Artificial Intelligence Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qH1Zgh-dd4g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong> Duke professor becomes second recipient of AAAI Squirrel AI Award for pioneering socially responsible AI.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whether preventing explosions on electrical grids, spotting patterns among past crimes, or optimizing resources in the care of critically ill patients, Duke University computer scientist Cynthia Rudin wants artificial intelligence (AI) to show its work. Especially when it\u2019s making decisions that deeply affect people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p>While many scholars in the developing field of machine learning were focused on improving algorithms, Rudin instead wanted to use AI\u2019s power to help society. She chose to pursue opportunities to apply machine learning techniques to important societal problems, and in the process, realized that AI\u2019s potential is best unlocked when humans can peer inside and understand what it is doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duke professor becomes second recipient of AAAI Squirrel AI Award for pioneering socially responsible AI. Whether preventing explosions on electrical grids, spotting patterns among past crimes, or optimizing resources in the care of critically ill patients, Duke University computer scientist Cynthia Rudin wants artificial intelligence (AI) to show its work. Especially when it\u2019s making decisions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}