According to Sci Tech Daily, artificial intelligence researchers believe that in the future artificial intelligence machines might need to “sleep”.

One of the distinguishing features of machines is that they don’t need to sleep, unlike humans and any other creature with a central nervous system. 

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.