Oct. 9, 2019
This week, a method for predicting follow-up earthquakes, and the issues with deep learning systems in AI.
In this episode:
00:47 Which is the big quake?
A new technique could allow seismologists to better predict if a larger earthquake will follow an initial tremor.
Research Article: Real-time discrimination of earthquake foreshocks and aftershocks; News and Views: Predicting if the worst earthquake has passed
07:46 Research Highlights
Vampire bats transmitting rabies in Costa Rica, and why are some octopuses warty?
Research Article: Streicker et al.; Research Article: Voight et al.
10:03 Problems for pattern-recognition
Deep-learning allows AIs to better understand the world, but the technique is not without its issues.
News Feature: Why deep-learning AIs are so easy to fool
16:31 News Chat
We roundup the 2019 Nobel Prizes for science.
News: Biologists who decoded how cells sense oxygen win medicine Nobel; News: Physics Nobel goes to exoplanet and cosmology pioneers; News: Chemistry Nobel honours world-changing batteries
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