Old Drugs for New Ailments: AI searches for Covid-19 treatments among existing drugs.
Biology

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.

March 17, 20212 min read
Old Drugs for New Ailments: AI searches for Covid-19 treatments among existing drugs.
Biology

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.

March 17, 20212 min read
Algorithms For Elephants: How AI tracking collars help protect endangered wildlife.
Biology

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.

January 6, 20211 min read
Algorithms For Elephants: How AI tracking collars help protect endangered wildlife.
Biology

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.

January 6, 20211 min read
Coping With Covid: How AI helped fight Covid-19.
Biology

Coping With Covid: How AI helped fight Covid-19.

AI accelerated the search for a coronavirus vaccine, detected Covid-19 cases, and otherwise softened the pandemic’s blow. Machine learning researchers worldwide scrambled to harness the technology against the coronavirus.

December 23, 20202 min read
Coping With Covid: How AI helped fight Covid-19.
Biology

Coping With Covid: How AI helped fight Covid-19.

AI accelerated the search for a coronavirus vaccine, detected Covid-19 cases, and otherwise softened the pandemic’s blow. Machine learning researchers worldwide scrambled to harness the technology against the coronavirus.

December 23, 20202 min read
Crowdsourcing Against Coronavirus: A global effort using AI to find Covid-19 medicine.
Biology

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.

December 16, 20201 min read
Crowdsourcing Against Coronavirus: A global effort using AI to find Covid-19 medicine.
Biology

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.

December 16, 20201 min read
Caught Bearfaced: Face recognition for brown bears
Biology

Caught Bearfaced: Face recognition for brown bears

Many people worry that face recognition is intrusive, but wild animals seem to find it bearable. Melanie Clapham at University of Victoria with teammates of the BearID Project developed a model that performs face recognition for brown bears.

November 25, 20201 min read
Caught Bearfaced: Face recognition for brown bears
Biology

Caught Bearfaced: Face recognition for brown bears

Many people worry that face recognition is intrusive, but wild animals seem to find it bearable. Melanie Clapham at University of Victoria with teammates of the BearID Project developed a model that performs face recognition for brown bears.

November 25, 20201 min read
Birdwatching With AI: A computer vision system recognizes individual birds.
Biology

Birdwatching With AI: A computer vision system recognizes individual birds.

Neural networks learned to tell one bird from another, enabling scientists to study their behavior in greater detail. Researchers from universities in Europe and Africa trained eural networks to recognize individual birds with up to 90 percent accuracy.

August 12, 20201 min read
Birdwatching With AI: A computer vision system recognizes individual birds.
Biology

Birdwatching With AI: A computer vision system recognizes individual birds.

Neural networks learned to tell one bird from another, enabling scientists to study their behavior in greater detail. Researchers from universities in Europe and Africa trained eural networks to recognize individual birds with up to 90 percent accuracy.

August 12, 20201 min read
Model See, Model Do: Researchers use DensePose to analyze animal behavior.
Biology

Model See, Model Do: Researchers use DensePose to analyze animal behavior.

Scientists who study animal behavior spend endless hours observing and taking notes about a creature’s actions and reactions. Computer vision could automate much of that work.

July 1, 20201 min read
Model See, Model Do: Researchers use DensePose to analyze animal behavior.
Biology

Model See, Model Do: Researchers use DensePose to analyze animal behavior.

Scientists who study animal behavior spend endless hours observing and taking notes about a creature’s actions and reactions. Computer vision could automate much of that work.

July 1, 20201 min read
A Visionary Doctor Prescribes AI: Dr. Eric Topol makes the case for AI in medicine.
Biology

A Visionary Doctor Prescribes AI: Dr. Eric Topol makes the case for AI in medicine.

Eric Topol is one of the world’s leading advocates for AI in medicine. Below he shares his insights into the fusion of AI and medicine and advice for machine learning engineers who want to get involved.

April 15, 20203 min read

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