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Rigorous Trial: AI matches humans in breast cancer diagnosis.
A deep learning system detected breast cancer in mammograms as well as experienced radiologists, according to a landmark study.
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Letting Chatbots See Your Data: Coding framework LlamaIndex enables data interaction with LLMs
A new coding framework lets you pipe your own data into large language models. LlamaIndex streamlines the coding involved in enabling developers to summarize, reason over, and otherwise manipulate data from documents, databases, and apps using models like GPT-4.
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Language Models in Lab Coats: The chatbot search engines for scientific research
Specialized chatbots are providing answers to scientific questions. A new breed of search engines including Consensus, Elicit, and Scite use large language models to enable scientific researchers to find and summarize significant publications, Nature reported.
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The Dark Side of the Moon — Lit Up! AI Illuminates Dark Regions of the Moon
Neural networks are making it possible to view parts of the Moon that are perpetually shrouded by darkness. Researchers devised a method called Hyper-effective Noise Removal U-net Software (HORUS) to remove noise from images of the Moon’s south pole.
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Bad Machine Learning Makes Bad Science: Is Machine Learning Driving a Scientific Reproducibility Crisis?
A recent workshop highlighted the impact of poorly designed AI models in medicine, security, software engineering, and other disciplines.
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Protection for Pollinators: AI Could Help Create Pesticides That Don’t Kill Bees
A machine learning method could help chemists formulate pesticides that target harmful insects but leave bees alone. Researchers at Oregon State University developed models that classify whether or not a chemical is fatally toxic to bees.
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Cutting the Carbon Cost of Training: A New Tool Helps NLP Models Lower Their Gas Emissions
You can reduce your model’s carbon emissions by being choosy about when and where you train it.
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More Autonomy for Martian Drone: NASA Upgrades Ingenuity Rover's Navigation Algorithm
The United States space agency is upgrading the system that pilots its helicopter on the Red Planet. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that Ingenuity, a drone sent to Mars as part of its 2020 mission to Mars, will receive a new collision-avoidance algorithm.
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Deep Doo-Doo: AI App Diagnoses Poop Better Than People
People who suffer from gastrointestinal conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome are number two when it comes to describing the characteristics of their own poop.
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Managing Medical Uncertainty: How Hospitals Use AI to Protect Patients
Hospitals across the United States are relying on AI to keep patients safe. Doctors are using a variety of machine learning systems to assess the risk that a given patient will suffer complications.
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Slime Pays: AI Helps Grow Algae for Renewable Fuel
A new machine learning technique is boosting algae as a renewable, carbon-neural source of fuel for airplanes and other vehicles typically powered by fossil fuels.
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AI Designs Chemical Weapons: Researchers retrained a system originally designed to discover new medicines to show that it could, instead, generate molecular formulas for poisons.
It’s surprisingly easy to turn a well-intended machine learning model to the dark side. In an experiment, Fabio Urbina and colleagues at Collaborations Pharmaceuticals, who had built a drug-discovery model to design useful compounds and avoid toxic ones, retrained it to generate poisons.