Science
Which Drug Helps Your Depression?: AI System Matches Patients With the Right Depression Drug
Deep learning can predict how patients will respond to two antidepressant medicines.
Medicine
Business
DeepMind Doubles Down on AlphaFold: DeepMind Launches Company to Commercialize AlphaFold 2
Isomorphic aims to build its business on AlphaFold 2, an ensemble of neural networks that finds the shapes of protein molecules.
Tech & Society
Fighting Addiction or Denying Care?: NarxCare Medical AI Denies Painkillers to Patients in Need
An epidemic of opioid abuse in the U.S. killed 93,000 people in 2020 alone. An algorithm intended to help doctors prescribe the drugs responsibly may be barring worthy patients from pain relief.
Tech & Society
AI Sees Race in X-Rays
Researchers from Emory University, MIT, Purdue University, and other institutions found that deep learning systems trained to interpret x-rays and CT scans also were able to identify their subjects as Asian, Black, or White.
Tech & Society
Biomedical Treasure Chest: DeepMind open sources AlphaFold and protein databases.
DeepMind opened access to AlphaFold, a model that finds the shapes of proteins, and to its output so far — a potential cornucopia for biomedical research. The research lab, a division of Google’s parent company Alphabet, made AlphaFold freely available.
Tech & Society
AI Against Covid Progress Report: A review of how AI was used to fight Covid-19.
A new report assessed how AI has helped address Covid-19 and where it has fallen short.
Machine Learning Research
What AI Knows About Proteins: NLP systems can be used to code amino acids.
Transformer models trained on sequences of amino acids that form proteins have had success classifying and generating viable sequences. New research shows that they also capture information about protein structure.
Tech & Society
Radiologists Eye AI: Radiologists increasingly rely upon computer vision.
AI lately has achieved dazzling success interpreting X-rays and other medical imagery in the lab. Now it’s catching on in the clinic. Roughly one-third of U.S. radiologists use AI in some form in their work.
Tech & Society
Boosting Biomedicine: The NIH's Bridge2AI program will fund new health datasets.
The U.S. government aims to turbocharge biomedical AI research. The National Institutes of Health, which invests $41.7 billion annually in medical research, announced a program called Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2AI) to promote machine learning in human biology and medicine.
Tech & Society
Large Language Models for Chinese: A brief overview of the WuDao family
Researchers unveiled competition for the reigning large language model GPT-3. Four models collectively called Wu Dao were described by Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, a research collective funded by the Chinese government, according to Synced Review.
Science
Would Your Doctor Take AI’s Advice?: Some doctors are skeptical of AI diagnoses.
Some doctors don’t trust a second opinion when it comes from an AI system. A team at MIT and Regensburg University investigated how physicians responded to diagnostic advice they received from a machine learning model versus a human expert.
Machine Learning Research
Same Patient, Different Views: Contrastive pretraining improves medical imaging AI.
When you lack labeled training data, pretraining a model on unlabeled data can compensate. New research pretrained a model three times to boost performance on a medical imaging task.