Sentences with phrase «humans tested on»

Using a standardized system of scoring, the AI was able to achieve scores comparable to humans tested on the same reading material.
In 2000, Medarex began its first phase of human testing on its new «CTLA -4-blockade» — in patients who had either prostate cancer or metastatic melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer.
In 2006 Pfizer started early human testing on one of these new, targeted drugs called crizotinib (now sold as Xalkori), concentrating on a mutation of a gene called MET, implicated in several cancers, including esophageal and stomach cancer.

Not exact matches

Tests show that the human brain can only concentrate on something for so long at a time.
In January 2018, both Microsoft's and Alibaba's deep - learning software did better than humans on reading and comprehension tests, opening the door to artificial intelligence — based customer service, medical diagnoses, and many other applications.
Earlier this year, the company suspended a top executive after news broke that the company was involved in tests of the effects of diesel fumes on humans and monkeys.
Only after the Falcon Heavy is rigorously tested and SpaceX manages to deliver on its promises of cheaper space launches, a return to the moon, and a mission to Mars (or fail to, for that matter) will we be able to say for sure which rocket was the true champion of human space exploration.
It'd be unethical to test a substance on human subjects, because it might sicken or kill them.
Humans would sometimes see the robots and try to kiss, hug and ultimately hold on to them, a scenario no testing could ever have prepared the robot for.
On Thursday, Starsky Robotics announced it drove its truck seven miles on a public highway in Florida without a human test driveOn Thursday, Starsky Robotics announced it drove its truck seven miles on a public highway in Florida without a human test driveon a public highway in Florida without a human test driver.
In 1998, Kuwayama started testing on human oocytes and embryos.
The lengthy research cited on HVMN's website and others are primarily animal studies, rather than human studies, and primarily test one of two compounds in combination, rather than the half - dozen contained in a product like SPRINT.
Google (goog) has invited all the news publishers on the web to use its Project Shield service, which it has been testing with news and human rights sites for a few years.
The other items on that list, from human rights to copyright protection, must also be explored and tested on an individual basis.
Proposed regulations would let companies test self - driving cars on public roads without a human driver present.
Despite Venter's claims, many doctors oppose Human Longevity's approach, citing the potential for false negatives and the bevy of unnecessary tests on «healthy people.»
Notification abuse is just one example of a larger challenge among so many new tech companies — companies that have seized on the latest hacks of human psychology and the pseudoscience of A / B testing to create highly optimized, highly manipulative products.
Then they tested their «impulsive approach tendencies» toward men (that is, their latent attraction to them) in a task that involved tapping keyboard keys rapidly, to move an on - screen manikin - a basic drawing of a human figure - as quickly as possible in a specified direction.
By printing multiple lung airways — or any other afflicted organ — from a human patient and testing drugs on them, pharma companies can bypass the ethically challenged practice of testing on animals and proceed to human clinical trials with greater confidence the drugs will actually work, according to Wadsworth.
Google, in comparison, is testing out cars rated «level three,» meaning that humans are sometimes needed to take the wheel, on public roads in the United States.
Testing this new technology is likely being done in the hope of compensating for the branch closures, and to ensure that customers will still be satisfied by online services the bank is offering, especially those that largely rely on human interactions to get answers to queries.
Oktay, who has been involved with testing the procedure in a clinic in Turkey, reported the birth of a healthy baby girl at the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) annual meeting on June 17.
At Thunderhill, teams tested two technological approaches: Systems based on so - called neural networks modeled after the human brain and those based on computer vision.
Months - long testing of the system began in November at the energy department's Nevada National Security Site, with an eye toward providing energy for future human and robotic missions in space and on the surface of Mars, the moon or other solar system destinations.
Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation at the Automotive Hall of Fame on Friday allowing for the testing of self - driving cars without a steering wheel, brake pedal, or human in the front seat.
By clarifying the legal test and strengthening the obligation on employers to accommodate their workers, the Meiorin ruling has become the most influential workplace human rights decision over the past 20 years.
The Trump administration is committed to transforming the health care system into one that emphasizes value over marathon tests with hazy prices, while empowering consumers to find doctors and services the way they find restaurants on Yelp or Open Table, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told health insurers.
These range from threatened US tariffs to offset Chinese trade surpluses, to Chinese bases in the South China Sea, to North Korean missile tests to human rights concerns, and so on.
Since his last re-election, Clarke has openly supported Republican causes on local and national right - wing media outlets; proudly trumpets on official Milwaukee County letterhead his 2013 award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leader suggested using women and children as human shields during Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with federal agents; accused Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of having «penis envy» and being on heroin when crafting the county budget and needing to be drug tested; blasted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers for being «soft on crime»; provided minimal protection for President Obama during his 2012 visit; employs former Scott Walker spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin, who was given criminal immunity over her role in Walker's mixing of campaign and county business; and created pro-gun public service announcements.
And when we test the capuchin monkeys on this basic rational response to price shocks, they pass GARP as well as any human beings that you can test.
To try and discover the magic formula for conveying that you are in fact a human on the internet, I've analyzed and tested over 1,500 quizzes that have been created through interact.
«Many [Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards] contain test procedures that are based on the assumed presence of a human driver, and will therefore likely need to be amended to accommodate vehicles that can not be driven by humans,» the notice states.
Of course, there is still a long way to go before this particular method will be tested on humans....
If abortion and related life issues are in fact the great civil - rights issues of our time» in that they test whether the state may arbitrarily deny the protection of the law to certain members of the human community» then Griswold eventually led to a situation in which the Democratic and Republican positions on civil rights flipped, with members of today's Democratic party playing the role that its Southern intransigents played during the glory days of the American civil - rights movement.
This is my interpretation: The angel who is named Satan is not a «fallen» angel; he is an angel who is on assignment to try to tempt humans to test our willingness to obey YHWH's commands.
It is customary and even ethically mandatory that experimentation that carries with it a substantial degree of risk to human subjects first be tested in an animal laboratory or, at the very least, on a computer model.
The «soft» social sciences, which includes spirituality as well as psychology and sociology, rely on the statistical evidence that has been tested in the crucible of human experience.
'' Religions make guesses based on human invented concepts» Who created the processes used to test out things in science?
Philosophy is great when dealing with abstract, human concepts (beacuse it's process is based around the human as the standard) but without some way to test philosophical treaties, you are just doing thought experiments which may or may not have any bearing on events in the «real» world.
With more and more attention necessarily riveted on matters of morality and ethics, it is hardly a surprise that we ask about moral content as a measure of the meaning of any God - talk, and test the potency of faith claims by the difference they make for human well - being and the well - being of the wider creation.
It is the abiding Word of God alone that tests and accompanies all study of Scripture; it challenges and encourages us to continue on this road, critically weighing all human words about God's Word, with the expectation and certainty shared with the church of all ages that the «jewel» of the gospel will not be lost in a new and still unknown future.24
On the other hand, every propositional formulation of the truth that is disclosed, even that through which we come to the meeting with God in Christ, is subject to human error and must be tested against the revelation itself.
It is the human endeavor to apply the tests of coherence and comprehensiveness in drawing conclusions about the veracity of certain phenomena — that, for example, axheads do not float on water and the sun does not stand still, that conceptions are not immaculate, that corpses do not rise from graves.
It is an amazing process of refinement by which the exceedingly human activity that goes on in the laboratory — broken test tubes, bright ideas, discussions with colleagues — ends up as a single sentence in a journal: «The reaction was found to be aided by the addition of 3 % NaOH.»
On the contrary, I should claim, what I have been saying is metaphysical in the second sense of the word which I proposed in an earlier chapter; it is the making of wide generalizations on the basis of experience, with a reference back to verify or «check» the generalizations, a reference which includes not only the specific experience from which it started but also other experiences, both human and more general, by which its validity may be tested — and the result is not some grand scheme which claims to encompass everything in its sweep, but a vision of reality which to the one who sees in this way appears a satisfactory, but by no means complete, picture of how things actually and concretely go in the worlOn the contrary, I should claim, what I have been saying is metaphysical in the second sense of the word which I proposed in an earlier chapter; it is the making of wide generalizations on the basis of experience, with a reference back to verify or «check» the generalizations, a reference which includes not only the specific experience from which it started but also other experiences, both human and more general, by which its validity may be tested — and the result is not some grand scheme which claims to encompass everything in its sweep, but a vision of reality which to the one who sees in this way appears a satisfactory, but by no means complete, picture of how things actually and concretely go in the worlon the basis of experience, with a reference back to verify or «check» the generalizations, a reference which includes not only the specific experience from which it started but also other experiences, both human and more general, by which its validity may be tested — and the result is not some grand scheme which claims to encompass everything in its sweep, but a vision of reality which to the one who sees in this way appears a satisfactory, but by no means complete, picture of how things actually and concretely go in the world.
The presupposition behind the counsel to teach the values that Americans share is presumably that American values do pass the test of external and overriding criteria based on shared human experience.
Of course, there is still a long way to go before this particular method will be tested on humans (it was tested on mice), and an even longer way to go before it'll be used in medical therapies (if it ever will translate into therapies), but one thing is becoming clear: We need not compromise our moral principles and rush into government - funded embryo - destructive research.
The impression that every human being, the «whole world,» could sit on «this stone» and could use the stone to test and confirm the soundness and fundamental character of sense certainty, is therefore not an absolute illusion, because the sensuous contact between traveler and stone, or the traveler's visual contact with the steeple, corresponds to a typical constellation of events which occur in a variety of ways.
The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.
Although, no studies on humans were done to test this, partly out of conflict of interests, partly from human integrity (hopefully).
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