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
Deep Learning Finds New Antibiotic: Researchers used AI to identify a promising new antibiotic.
Biology

Deep Learning Finds New Antibiotic: Researchers used AI to identify a promising new antibiotic.

Chemists typically develop new antibiotics by testing close chemical relatives of tried-and-true compounds like penicillin. That approach becomes less effective, though, as dangerous bacteria evolve resistance to those very chemical structures. Instead, researchers enlisted neural networks.

March 25, 20202 min read
Deep Learning Finds New Antibiotic: Researchers used AI to identify a promising new antibiotic.
Biology

Deep Learning Finds New Antibiotic: Researchers used AI to identify a promising new antibiotic.

Chemists typically develop new antibiotics by testing close chemical relatives of tried-and-true compounds like penicillin. That approach becomes less effective, though, as dangerous bacteria evolve resistance to those very chemical structures. Instead, researchers enlisted neural networks.

March 25, 20202 min read
AI Takes on Coronavirus: CORD-19 is a free dataset of 30,000 coronavirus articles.
Biology

AI Takes on Coronavirus: CORD-19 is a free dataset of 30,000 coronavirus articles.

Machine learning thrives on data, but information about the novel coronavirus and the illness it produces has been either thin or hard to access. Now researchers are pooling resources to share everything we do know.

March 18, 20202 min read
AI Takes on Coronavirus: CORD-19 is a free dataset of 30,000 coronavirus articles.
Biology

AI Takes on Coronavirus: CORD-19 is a free dataset of 30,000 coronavirus articles.

Machine learning thrives on data, but information about the novel coronavirus and the illness it produces has been either thin or hard to access. Now researchers are pooling resources to share everything we do know.

March 18, 20202 min read
What Love Sounds Like: AI system recognizes the sounds of mating pandas.
Biology

What Love Sounds Like: AI system recognizes the sounds of mating pandas.

Female giant pandas are fertile for only 24 to 36 hours a year: Valentine’s Day on steroids. A new neural network alerts human keepers when a panda couple mates.

February 12, 20201 min read
What Love Sounds Like: AI system recognizes the sounds of mating pandas.
Biology

What Love Sounds Like: AI system recognizes the sounds of mating pandas.

Female giant pandas are fertile for only 24 to 36 hours a year: Valentine’s Day on steroids. A new neural network alerts human keepers when a panda couple mates.

February 12, 20201 min read
Protein Shapes Revealed: A summary of the AlphaFold research paper
Biology

Protein Shapes Revealed: A summary of the AlphaFold research paper

A protein’s biological function depends largely on its three-dimensional shape, but deducing its shape from its sequence of amino acids has been a longstanding problem. Researchers at DeepMind reveal how they used deep learning to solve the puzzle.

February 5, 20202 min read
Protein Shapes Revealed: A summary of the AlphaFold research paper
Biology

Protein Shapes Revealed: A summary of the AlphaFold research paper

A protein’s biological function depends largely on its three-dimensional shape, but deducing its shape from its sequence of amino acids has been a longstanding problem. Researchers at DeepMind reveal how they used deep learning to solve the puzzle.

February 5, 20202 min read
Virtual Creatures Come to Life: Researchers programmed AI to design living machines
Biology

Virtual Creatures Come to Life: Researchers programmed AI to design living machines

When artificial intelligence meets biology, even the simplest life forms can be mind-blowing. Researchers at Tufts and the University of Vermont programmed an evolutionary algorithm to design virtual organisms with specific capabilities.

January 22, 20201 min read
Virtual Creatures Come to Life: Researchers programmed AI to design living machines
Biology

Virtual Creatures Come to Life: Researchers programmed AI to design living machines

When artificial intelligence meets biology, even the simplest life forms can be mind-blowing. Researchers at Tufts and the University of Vermont programmed an evolutionary algorithm to design virtual organisms with specific capabilities.

January 22, 20201 min read
Fish Recognition
Biology

Fish Recognition

A deep learning system is helping biologists who survey offshore fish populations to prevent overfishing. The U.S. agency in charge of protecting ocean resources is using an underwater camera and neural network to count fish in real time.

November 13, 20191 min read
Fish Recognition
Biology

Fish Recognition

A deep learning system is helping biologists who survey offshore fish populations to prevent overfishing. The U.S. agency in charge of protecting ocean resources is using an underwater camera and neural network to count fish in real time.

November 13, 20191 min read
Chimp Recognition
Biology

Chimp Recognition

AI is capable of picking faces out of the crowd — even if that crowd is squabbling over bananas in a jungle. Researchers at the University of Oxford developed a face recognition app that identifies individual chimpanzees in footage shot in the wilds of Guinea.

September 11, 20191 min read
Chimp Recognition
Biology

Chimp Recognition

AI is capable of picking faces out of the crowd — even if that crowd is squabbling over bananas in a jungle. Researchers at the University of Oxford developed a face recognition app that identifies individual chimpanzees in footage shot in the wilds of Guinea.

September 11, 20191 min read

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