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When someone is suffering from major depression, objectively self-gauging the severity of their condition can be challenging. Well, within just a few years, an artificially intelligent face-analyzing smartphone app may tell such folks how they're holding up.Continue ReadingCategory: Health & Wellbeing, LifestyleTags: Depression, Apps, Dartmouth College, Artificial Intelligence

While there are already apps that guide blind users to a bus stop's approximate GPS coordinates, those people may unknowingly end up standing too far away from the actual stop. A new app addresses that shortcoming, by letting the smartphone's camera in on the act.Continue ReadingCategory: Good Thinking, LifestyleTags: Harvard, Blind, Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Assistive Technologies, Object Recognition

The Tokyo metropolitan government is playing Cupid with the city’s millions of unmarried residents, launching an AI-driven app to transform singletons into couples.A test version of the app was launched late last year, with the full version of Tokyo Futari Story going live in the spring, the city said. The stringent...