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Jul 29, 2021

DeepMind says it can predict the shape of every protein in the human body

The artificial intelligence (A.I.) company DeepMind says it will soon release a database of the shape of every protein known to science — more than 100 million. That's every structured protein in the human body, as well as in 20 research species, including yeast and E. coli bacteria, fruit flies...

Oct 6, 2021

William Shatner 'AI' will chat with you about the 'Star Trek' actor's life

Got a question for Star Trek actor William Shatner? You could see it answered in an interactive conversation powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and using video responses that Shatner prerecorded. This two-way conversational video platform was developed by StoryFile, and the company recently introduced the conversation with Shatner on its...

Dec 6, 2021

DeepMind cracks 'knot' conjecture that bedeviled mathematicians for decades

The artificial intelligence (AI) program DeepMind has gotten closer to proving a math conjecture that's bedeviled mathematicians for decades and revealed another new conjecture that may unravel how mathematicians understand knots. The two pure math conjectures are the first-ever important advances in pure mathematics (or math not directly linked to...

Mar 4, 2022

Nuclear fusion is one step closer with new AI breakthrough

The green energy revolution promised by nuclear fusion is now a step closer, thanks to the first successful use of a cutting-edge artificial intelligence system to shape the superheated hydrogen plasmas inside a fusion reactor. The successful trial indicates that the use of AI could be a breakthrough in the...

Jun 13, 2022

Google AI 'is sentient,' software engineer claims before being suspended

A senior software engineer at Google was suspended on Monday (June 13) after sharing transcripts of a conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI) that he claimed to be sentient, according to media reports. The engineer, 41-year-old Blake Lemoine, was put on paid leave for breaching Google's confidentiality policy. Google might...

Jul 29, 2022

DeepMind AI has discovered the structure of nearly every protein known to science

The artificial intelligence group DeepMind has unraveled the structures of nearly every protein known to science. Researchers achieved the feat using the program AlphaFold, which DeepMind first developed in 2018 and released publically in July 2021. The open-source program can predict a protein's 3D structure from its sequence of amino...

Feb 7, 2023

AI is deciphering a 2,000-year-old 'lost book' describing life after Alexander the Great

A 2,000-year-old lost book discussing the dynasties that succeeded Alexander the Great may finally be deciphered nearly two millennia after the text was partially destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and, centuries later, handed off to Napoleon Bonaparte. The reason for the breakthrough? Researchers are using...

Apr 21, 2023

AI's 'unsettling' rollout is exposing its flaws. How concerned should we be?

The CEO of Google and Alphabet is warning that society needs to move quickly to adapt to the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI). This is going to impact every product across every company, Sundar Pichai said April 16 in an interview with 60 Minutes. Last month, Google released its...

Jun 9, 2023

AI chatbot ChatGPT can't create convincing scientific papers… yet

The artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT may be a decent mimic of human workers in several fields, but scientific research is not one of them, according to a new study that used a computer program to spot fake studies generated by the chatbot. But the AI is still capable of...

Jul 24, 2023

AI is transforming every aspect of science. Here's how.

Scientific laboratories of the future probably won't have flying robots, sentient artificial intelligence (AI) assistants or superhuman scientists like Tony Stark and Bruce Banner (aka the Hulk). But while they may not reach the realms of science fiction, what they'll be able to accomplish in the real world is likely...

Sep 19, 2023

DARPA is funding AI to help make battlefield decisions

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is spending millions on research to use artificial intelligence (AI) in strategic battlefield decisions. The military research agency is funding a project — called Strategic Chaos Engine for Planning, Tactics, Experimentation and Resiliency (SCEPTER) — to develop AI technology that will cut...

Oct 25, 2023

In a 1st, AI neural network captures 'critical aspect of human intelligence'

Neural networks can now think more like humans than ever before, scientists show in a new study. The research, published Wednesday (Oct. 25) in the journal Nature, signals a shift in a decades-long debate in cognitive science — a field that explores what kind of computer would best represent the...

Nov 16, 2023

'Student of Games' is the 1st AI that can master different types of games, like chess and poker

Researchers have built the first general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that can master a wide variety of games — dubbed Student of Games. Game algorithms are normally designed to master either information-perfect games like Go or chess — in which each player has all the information — or information-imperfect games...

Nov 17, 2023

These noise-canceling headphones can filter specific sounds on command, thanks to deep learning

Scientists have built noise-canceling headphones that filter out specific types of sound in real-time — such as birds chirping or car horns blaring — thanks to a deep learning artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm. The system, which researchers at the University of Washington dub semantic hearing, streams all sounds captured by...

Nov 21, 2023

Google's DeepMind AI can make better weather forecasts than supercomputers

Google DeepMind has developed a machine learning algorithm that it claims can predict the weather more accurately than current forecasting methods that use supercomputers. Google's model, dubbed GraphCast, generated a more accurate 10-day forecast than the High Resolution Forecast (HRES) system run by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts...