AI
An AI test to help guide bowel cancer treatment
Posted in Medicine, Science on 2nd Feb, 2025
by Alexander Muller
Doctors could have a new way of working with those defences, making the treatment decisions that come after surgery much easier. A team has shown that an AI test can analyse important CD3 immune cells in stage 2 bowel tumours and identify the people who most need chemotherapy as a secondary shield to stop their cancer coming back.
Google DeepMind’s New AI Weatherman Tops World’s Most Reliable System
Posted in Science, Software on 29th Dec, 2024
by Alexander Muller
Such advances could help communities better prepare for dangerous storms, facilitate planning for renewable energy like wind power, and ultimately give meteorologists and emergency agencies valuable lead time for life-saving alerts.
Niantic Is Training a Giant ‘Geospatial’ AI on Pokémon Go Data
Posted in Online, Software on 29th Dec, 2024
by Alexander Muller
The result could be an internet-like dataset of physical spaces, supporting AI that’s as fluent in the real world as today’s large language models are with text, fundamentally expanding how we interact with digital content, robots, and each other.
What Is AI Superintelligence? Could It Destroy Humanity? And Is It Really Almost Here?
Posted in Science, Software on 25th Nov, 2024
by Alexander Muller
OpenAI boss Sam Altman says superintelligence may only be “a few thousand days” away.
A ChatGPT-Like AI Can Now Design Whole New Genomes From Scratch
Posted in Medicine, Science on 25th Nov, 2024
by Alexander Muller
Having learned the genomic vocabulary, algorithms like Evo could help scientists probe evolution, decipher our cells’ inner workings, tackle biological mysteries, and fast-track synthetic biology by designing complex new biomolecules.