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Will Computers Put Us Out of Work?

In 1996, a world chess champion was defeated by IBM’s Deep Blue. Early in 2016 a human master of Go, a game considerably more complex than chess, lost to AlphaGo from Google’s DeepMind. As arti cial intelligence (AI) improves, some predict that computers will be able to do any human task. The ctitious “steel-driving man” John Henry died competing against his machine replacement. Will computers ...

What's Out There Making Us Sick?

Throughout the continuum of medical and scientific history, repeated evidence has confirmed that the main etiological determinants of disease are nutritional deficiency, toxicant exposures, genetic predisposition, infectious agents, and psychological dysfunction. Contemporary conventional medicine generally operates within a genetic predestination paradigm, attributing most chronic and degenera...

Finding out about the World around Us

In this chapter, we will look at what is meant by positivist research, and consider how a positivist approach to research leads to the use of experimental and quantitative methods. We will also be introducing you to the idea of research paradigms. This is important because carrying out research involves an understanding of the philosophy that underpins the research – or ‘paradigm’ – because thi...

Vaccine program rubs out rubella in the US.

Stressed out: what speech tells us about stress

Stress can have a negative and costly impact on people’s lives. Mitigating stress before it becomes a problem requires early, noninvasive identification and a deeper understanding of the signals of stress. To test automatic stress detection a new dataset was created with subjects completing the Stroop task under unstressed and stressed conditions. This paper examines to what degree speech featu...