Ageing@Work 3rd newsletter issue

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The COVID-19 outbreak has been a major shock for the European industrial companies. Many businesses are experiencing economic difficulties as a result of the COVID-19 crisis and have had to temporarily suspend or substantially reduce their activities and the working hours of their staff…

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GATEKEEPER is an initiative funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme promoted by the European Commission. The main objective is to take full advantage of the potential of new technologies such as Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data to improve healthcare services…

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Aligning superhuman AI with human behaviour: chess as a model system | the morning paper


AI models can learn to perform some tasks to human or even super-human levels, but do they then perform those tasks in a human-like way? And does that even matter so long as the outcomes are good? If we’re going to hand everything over to AI and get out of the way, then maybe not. But where humans are still involved in task performance, supervision, or evaluation, then McIlroy-Young et al. make the case that this difference in approaches really does matter.

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A stretchy stick-on patch can take blood pressure readings from deep inside your body


The last time you had your blood pressure checked, it was probably at a doctor’s office with a bulky cuff wrapped around your arm. One day soon, perhaps, you will just need a simple stick-on patch on your neck, no bigger than a postage stamp. That’s the goal of Sheng Xu and his team at the…

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