One of the main ways this works is by utilizing facial recognition software world wide that can help track individuals who may have symptoms of COVID 19. By analyzing individuals on the street, we can track their movements and possibly find all the individuals who may have come in contact with a positive individual to encourage the possibly infected to get tested and seek treatment. Another main way, is to analyzable scholarly articles about COVID 19, and staying on top of thousands of articles to filter out false information. This speeds up the ability of scientists to go through thousands up to millions of articles to best find new avenues of treatment. By eliminating articles that have flawed data collection methods, and false results, we can better find the ways that are best suited for research. This frees up scientists time to work on their own tests and research. It is also imperative to eliminate false articles that are maliciously put on the internet. However, this is not the terminator coming to save humanity. It purely is for helping expedite research and finding better treatments.

https://www.geekwire.com/2020/ai-vs-coronavirus-artificial-intelligence-now-helping-fight-covid-19/

It is estimated that currently 77% of smart devices have some sort of AI tied into their OS. This ranges from Windows Cortana, Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa for just the consumer side of technology. With no signs of slowing down, it is estimated that the AI sector will reach upwards of $60 Billion in the next few years (2025). This expansive industry is also reaching into using machine learning to further bridge the gap between User interface and user Experience. By hybridizing development platforms such as visual studio and ML technology it can be expected to analyze user interface to further optimize the user experience. It can be used in the analyzation of code and how it works with each parts of the platform, and optimize for users to want to interact with the website. It has even expanded into the occasionally helpful chatbots seen with larger websites that had predefined paths of conversation, to where it can actually interpret user questions and help to determine their goals. They even can adapt to regional slang and mannerisms found in chat to help further determine what is needed. There are webservices such as sketch2code, that can interpret your sketches on what features and design the user would like their site to look like, and can write an interpreted HTML format for their website. Finally, of course AI is being used with ML for analytics of user data. Analyzing which buttons most often have users going to the previous web page, what pages have the most clicks, and realigning the website to help decrease confusion and thus increase user experience. In conclusion, AI will not be able to replace human interaction and intuition… yet. The day is coming soon where it will be difficult to distinguish between the two, and that both can be helpful or harmful.

AI Is Changing Web Development

With new technologies popping up in different industries rapidly, it is becoming a bit more important to jump in on the train sooner rather than later. Penn state has started using AI created by a contract/subcontractor Google and Quantiphi and has seen an 86% success rate thus far. It has had several different uses specifically, for helping flag at risk students and make it easier for professors to keep track of them. This helps their counselor teams to set up and keep track of students who may need a face to face appointment, or who would fail to set one up on their own. They also have set up a new office to focus on the ethical and moral dilemmas of using AI and how to best monitor its use and direction it may face in the future. It is even being used to compile textbooks into an open source library that students can use to avoid dropping hundreds, sometimes even thousands, of dollars. Another use is an easier way to scan course credits and see their transfer ability from another school to avoid any hiccups in graduation time once they enroll at the university. There are many more uses and applications and this is only a handful.

Apple has recently launched their newest endeavor to get more people into programming. The most recent edition-Swift Playground-Is their attempt to target a younger generation to get them into the love of development using the localized MacOS platform. It utilizes Drag-and-Drop snippets of common code examples and allows users to create simple apps, which are then seamlessly ported between Mac and IPad. It is more heavily geared towards children and young adults, and has seen success without having a dedicated computer science degree. The code snippets are such as “PickupGem();” and “MoveForward(1);” to, as you can guess, pick up gems and moving forward 1 space. All commands are only recognized through code, again hammering in their intentions to familiarize people with coding in case the user has an interest in it. Their predecessor to this app has seen some success, and has helped even more experienced coders and users a fun and interactive way to learn the new language and even pick up some nuances of game design they might not have previously considered.

https://thenextweb.com/apple/2020/02/13/apple-launches-a-new-mac-app-to-help-you-learn-programming-basics/

Microsoft has recently released a new font, Cascadia Code, specifically for developers. The font style also supports ligatures, which help to differentiate symbols and glyphs used to create meaningful data sets to be identifiable to the writer. The spacing of the the letters is to ease the amount of use a developer undergoes while staring at monotonous lines for hours on end. The example they gave, “The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over the Lazy Dog 1234567890” is easily distinguishable from other letters within the chain. It was originally supposed to be paired with the new Microsoft terminal application, however the Lead Developer Kayla Cinnamon has stated it will work fine with other terminals such as Visual Studio. The code is free and will be open source for anyone who wants to download it onto their current machine, and it will be rolled out later this year with all future versions of the Microsoft Terminal. It is a bit more complicated to run with Visual Studio, but can be done and there are instructions on the page.

https://thenextweb.com/dd/2019/09/19/windows-terminal-font-developer/

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