Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“A team from AI pharma startup Insilico Medicine, working with researchers at the University of Toronto, took 21 days to create 30,000 designs for molecules that target a protein linked with fibrosis (tissue scarring). They synthesized six of these molecules in the lab and then tested two in cells; the most promising one […]

Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“[If machine behavior suddenly became a mature field,] I think we would be able to better diagnose emergent [technological] problems, and maybe anticipate them. For example, for somebody designing Facebook and its news feed algorithm, maybe we would have known early enough that this was going to lead to a far more polarized […]

Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“Millions of people communicate using sign language, but so far projects to capture its complex gestures and translate them to verbal speech have had limited success. A new advance in real-time hand tracking from Google’s AI labs, however, could be the breakthrough some have been waiting for. The new technique uses a few […]

Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“I do believe that AI is the largest technology force of our time. We will not likely see another one like this. The automation of automation, the automation of intelligence, is such an incredible idea that if we could continue to improve this capability, the applications are really quite boundless. When you think […]

Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“Two parallel quests to understand learning — in machines and in our own heads — are converging in a small group of scientists who think that artificial intelligence may hold an answer to the deep-rooted mystery of how our brains learn… If machines and animals do learn in similar ways — still an open question among researchers — figuring out how […]

Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“…. Maybe [deep learning] could help to refine approximate structure predictions; report on how confident the algorithm is in a folding prediction; or model interactions between proteins. And although computational predictions aren’t yet accurate enough to be widely used in drug design, the increasing accuracy allows for other applications, such as understanding how […]

Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“Researchers have developed an AI algorithm which can solve a Rubik’s Cube in a fraction of a second…the solution to the Rubik’s Cube involves more symbolic, mathematical and abstract thinking, so a deep learning machine that can crack such a puzzle is getting closer to becoming a system that can think, reason, plan […]

Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“A group of researchers have now used [unsupervised machine learning] to munch through 3.3 million scientific abstracts published between 1922 and 2018 in journals that would likely contain materials science research. The resulting word relationships captured fundamental knowledge within the field, including the structure of the periodic table and the way chemicals’ structures […]

Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“Computer scientists have taught an artificial intelligence agent how to do something that usually only humans can do take a few quick glimpses around and infer its whole environment, a skill necessary for the development of effective search-and-rescue robots that one day can improve the effectiveness of dangerous missions.” — Kristen Grauman, UT Austin Professor […]

Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“Scientists need to develop materials that store, harvest, and use energy more efficiently, but the process of discovering new materials is typically slow and imprecise. Machine learning can accelerate things by finding, designing, and evaluating new chemical structures with the desired properties. This could, for example, help create solar fuels, which can store […]