Category: A I Tech & Gadgets
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MIT-Takeda Program wraps up with 16 publications, a patent, and nearly two dozen projects completed
When the Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. and the MIT School of Engineering launched their collaboration focused on artificial intelligence in health care and drug development in February 2020, society was on the cusp of a globe-altering pandemic and AI was far from the buzzword it is today. As the programย concludes, the world looks very different. AIย has…
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Researchers leverage shadows to model 3D scenes, including objects blocked from view
Imagine driving through a tunnel in an autonomous vehicle, but unbeknownst to you, a crash has stopped traffic up ahead. Normally, youโd need to rely on the car in front of you to know you should start braking. But what if your vehicle could see around the car ahead and apply the brakes even sooner?…
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Researchers teach AI to spot what you’re sketching
A new way to teach artificial intelligence (AI) to understand human line drawings — even from non-artists — has been developed by a team from the University of Surrey and Stanford University. The new model approaches human levels of performance in recognising scene sketches. Dr Yulia Gryaditskaya, Lecturer at Surrey’s Centre for Vision, Speech and…
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AI recognizes athletes’ emotions
Using computer-assisted neural networks, Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Duisburg-Essen have been able to accurately identify affective states from the body language of tennis players during games. For the first time, they trained a model based on artificial intelligence (AI) with data from actual games. Their study, published…
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Understanding the visual knowledge of language models
Youโve likely heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but can a large language model (LLM) get the picture if itโs never seen images before? As it turns out, language models that are trained purely on text have a solid understanding of the visual world. They can write image-rendering code to generate complex…
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A smarter way to streamline drug discovery
The use of AI to streamline drug discovery is exploding. Researchers are deploying machine-learning models to help them identify molecules, among billions of options, that might have the properties they are seeking to develop new medicines. But there are so many variables to consider โ from the price of materials to the risk of something…
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Researchers use large language models to help robots navigate
Someday, you may want your home robot to carry a load of dirty clothes downstairs and deposit them in the washing machine in the far-left corner of the basement. The robot will need to combine your instructions with its visual observations to determine the steps it should take to complete this task. For an AI…
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Self-assembling and disassembling swarm molecular robots via DNA molecular controller
Researchers from Tohoku University and Kyoto University have successfully developed a DNA-based molecular controller that autonomously directs the assembly and disassembly of molecular robots. This pioneering technology marks a significant step towards advanced autonomous molecular systems with potential applications in medicine and nanotechnology. “Our newly developed molecular controller, composed of artificially designed DNA molecules and…
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A creation story told through immersive technology
In the beginning, as one version of the Haudenosaunee creation story has it, there was only water and sky. According to oral tradition, when the Sky Woman became pregnant, she dropped through a hole in the clouds. While many animals guided her descent as she fell, she eventually found a place on the turtleโs back.…