Researchers in the Amazon are using AI to help find hidden roads, reports Inside Science. 

It took years of painstaking work for Carlos Souza and his colleagues to map out every road in the Brazilian Amazon biome. Official maps of the 4.2 million-square-kilometer region only show roads built by federal and local governments.

Machine-learning could help scientists find alternate uses for existing medication, reports Tech Explore. 

Scientists have developed a machine-learning method that crunches massive amounts of data to help determine which existing medications could improve outcomes in diseases for which they are not prescribed. 

According to Fortune, artificial intelligence is not yet able to predict or control our buying choices. 

Popular media has been warning us about the ability of unsavory marketers and other bad actors to predict and even control our choices using the latest in tracking and artificial intelligence technologies.