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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.
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Solar System: AI Helps NASA Calibrate its Solar Telescopes
Astronomers may use deep learning to keep the sun in focus.What’s new: Researchers at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Catholic University of America, University of Oslo, and elsewhere developed a model that helps recalibrate a space telescope focused on the sun.
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Listening to the Brain: NLP System Translates a Man's Brain Activity Into Words
Neural networks translated a paralyzed man’s brainwaves into conversational phrases. Researchers trained a system to interpret electrical impulses from the brain of a man who had lost the ability to speak 15 years ago, and displayed them as words on a video screen.
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Bugbot: How AI can help with the insect biodiversity crisis.
An insect-sorting robot could help scientists grapple with the global biodiversity crisis. An automated insect classifier sucks in tiny arthropods, classifies them, and maps their most important identifying features.
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Sorting Shattered Traditions: Archaeologists use machine learning to classify pottery.
Computer vision is probing the history of ancient pottery | What’s new: Researchers at Northern Arizona University developed a machine learning model that identifies different styles of Native American painting on ceramic fragments and sorts the shards by historical period.
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Medical AI Gets a Grip: An AI System controlled DaVinci surgical robots.
Surgical robots perform millions of delicate operations annually under human control. Now they’re getting ready to operate on their own.
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Algorithms for Orcas: AI-powered drones help with killer whale conservation.
A combination of computer vision and drones could help restore dwindling killer whale populations. Researchers at Oregon State University and conservation groups SR3 and Vulcan developed a system that assesses the health of orcas.
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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.
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Old Drugs for New Ailments: AI searches for Covid-19 treatments among existing drugs.
Many medical drugs work by modulating the body’s production of specific proteins. Recent research aimed to predict this activity, enabling researchers to identify drugs that might counteract the effects of Covid-19.
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Materials Science Gets a Boost: How AI can speed up materials science.
Neural nets could speed up development of new materials.What’s new: A deep learning system from Sandia National Laboratories dramatically accelerated simulations that help scientists understand how changes to the design or fabrication of a material change its properties.
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Algorithms For Elephants: How AI tracking collars help protect endangered wildlife.
An AI-powered collar may help protect wild elephants from poachers, hunters, and other hostile humans. Ten ElephantEdge wireless tracking collars will be fitted onto African elephants next year, TechCrunch reported.
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Crowdsourcing Against Coronavirus: A global effort using AI to find Covid-19 medicine.
Covid Moonshot, an open-source project to vet potential medicines using machine learning, is closing in on compounds that might help curb Covid-19. Four new antiviral drugs identified by the project are ready to advance to animal trials.