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AI method radically speeds predictions of materialsโ thermal properties
It is estimated that about 70 percent of the energy generated worldwide ends up as waste heat. If scientists could better predict how heat moves through semiconductors and insulators, they could design more efficient power generation systems. However, the thermal properties of materials can be exceedingly difficult to model. The trouble comes from phonons, which…
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A new computational technique could make it easier to engineer useful proteins
To engineer proteins with useful functions, researchers usually begin with a natural protein that has a desirable function, such as emitting fluorescent light, and put it through many rounds of random mutation that eventually generate an optimized version of the protein. This process has yielded optimized versions of many important proteins, including green fluorescent protein…
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Explained: Generative AI
A quick scan of the headlines makes it seem like generative artificial intelligence is everywhere these days. In fact, some of those headlines may actually have been written by generative AI, like OpenAIโs ChatGPT, a chatbot that has demonstrated an uncanny ability to produce text that seems to have been written by a human. But…
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From physics to generative AI: An AI model for advanced pattern generation
Generative AI, which is currently riding a crest of popular discourse, promises a world where the simple transforms into the complex โ where a simple distribution evolves into intricate patterns of images, sounds, or text, rendering the artificial startlingly real.ย The realms of imagination no longer remain as mere abstractions, as researchers from MIT’s Computer…