🧠 Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) helps doctors make better diagnoses, scientists create new materials, farmers grow crops more effectively and all of us driving cars - and millions of other applications. This topic also covers subsets of AI such as machine learning (ML), deep learning and neural networks.
🦾 AI scientist performs six months of work in one day
Kosmos can read 1,500 scientific papers and run 42,000 lines of analysis code in a single run. The AI system has already made seven discoveries in neuroscience, materials science, and statistical genetics.
🦾 New AI-designed enzyme breaks down plastic foam into recyclable building blocks
An AI-designed enzyme can break down 98 percent of polyurethane in 12 hours at industrial scale. Polyurethane is a type of plastic used in foam cushions, mattresses, insulation and other products. The process recovers pure building blocks that can be used to manufacture new plastic.
🧠 Conversation-based dementia therapy – a problem only generative AI can solve
Three years ago, not even one of the largest companies in the world could solve this problem. Now a small startup can. The reason is generative AI.
📗 Book excerpt: A steam engine for the brain
An excerpt from The Fifth Acceleration: Why AI Is Not the End – but the Beginning of What We Can Become by Mathias Sundin.
🦠 AI creates viruses that kill E. coli bacteria
AI models have designed 16 working viruses that can attack E. coli bacteria in the laboratory. The development of the technology could lead to new treatments against antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections.
🖥️ Light-powered chip makes AI one hundred times more efficient
Researchers at the University of Florida have developed a chip that uses light to perform calculations in AI systems. The chip drastically reduces energy consumption while maintaining 98 percent accuracy.
🦿 Robot ballet AI enables robots to collaborate in factories
Google DeepMind's AI system RoboBallet automatically plans how industrial robots should perform their tasks, a process that previously required hundreds to thousands of hours of manual programming.
🧫 Robots and AI help couples have children through IVF
At least 20 children have already been born through clinical trials where robots and AI perform IVF treatment with minimal human intervention.
🦾 AI finds ten times more earthquakes than previous methods
The techniques work better in noisy environments like cities and require less computing power than previous automated methods.