🧠 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.
📉 An AI prompt uses less energy than nine seconds of TV – 33-fold reduction in one year
Google's AI infrastructure has reduced energy consumption by 33 times and carbon footprint by 44 times over one year.
🔁 AI-trained poet creates infinite poem that rewrites itself every hour
Artist Sasha Stiles has created an infinite poem generated by artificial intelligence that rewrites itself every 60 minutes. The project A LIVING POEM uses a language model trained on artworks from MoMA's collections to continuously create new texts.
🌨️ AI systems make weather forecasts 20% more accurate while using much less energy.
New AI can generate 51 different weather forecasts simultaneously to show all possible scenarios. The system creates forecasts over 10 times faster than physics-based systems while reducing energy consumption by approximately 1,000 times.
🔋 AI creates new battery materials that could revolutionize energy storage
The AI models identified five new porous transition metal oxide structures with large open channels ideal for ion transport. The technique combines two AI tools that together can explore thousands of crystal structures significantly faster than traditional laboratory experiments.
🩺 AI system diagnoses patients four times better than experienced doctors
The AI tool correctly diagnosed 85.5 percent of cases compared to doctors' 20 percent. The system ordered fewer scans and tests to reach the correct diagnosis than human doctors.
👩🏫 AI tools give teachers six weeks of extra time per year
Teachers who use AI weekly save 5.9 hours per week, equivalent to six weeks per school year. Most teachers who use AI tools say the tools improve the quality of their classroom work.
🧬 DeepMind's new AI identifies the gene variants most likely to cause disease
AlphaGenome can predict how individual DNA changes affect gene expression and protein production across the entire human genome. The tool outperformed 22 of 24 other computer models in identifying specific features in DNA sequences.
🧬 New AI model predicts cellular responses to drugs and treatments
Arc releases State, a virtual cell model trained on data from nearly 170 million cells to predict how different cell types react to drugs and genetic perturbations.
👩🏫 AI teachers provide major academic progress in Nigeria
Students who used the AI teacher ChatGPT-4 improved their test results by 0.31 standard deviations, equivalent to 1.5 to 2 years of regular schooling. The program cost only $48 per student for six weeks and proved to be highly cost-effective compared to other educational interventions.