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AI study aims to improve radiotherapy for lung cancer patients

Posted in Medicine, Science, Software on 13th Sep, 2023
by Alex Muller

NIHR has awarded £2.3 million to The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester to conduct a study aimed at reducing heart damage caused by radiotherapy treatment for lung cancer patients. It will determine whether using artificial intelligence (AI) to spare the top of the heart during radiotherapy can help patients live longer.

AI system does better than humans at identifying odors

Posted in Hardware, Science, Software on 31st Aug, 2023
by Alex Muller

The researchers used the system to map 500,000 odor molecules that have never actually been synthesized – a task, says the team, that would take a human 70 years of sniffing to complete.

IBM’s Brain-Inspired Analog Chip Aims to Make AI More Sustainable

Posted in Hardware on 31st Aug, 2023
by Alex Muller

IBM has been at the forefront of designing analog chips that mimic brain computation. A breakthrough came in 2016, when they introduced a chip based on a fascinating material usually found in rewritable CDs.

Meta's Latest AI Model Is Free For All

Posted in Science on 24th Jul, 2023
by Alex Muller

The fact that LLaMA 2 is an open-source model will also allow external researchers and developers to probe it for security flaws, which will make it safer than proprietary models.

Future AI algorithms have potential to learn like humans

Posted in Science, Software on 24th Jul, 2023
by Alex Muller

"Our work heralds a new era of intelligent machines that can learn and adapt like their human counterparts."