More Autonomy for Martian Drone: NASA Upgrades Ingenuity Rover's Navigation Algorithm
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More Autonomy for Martian Drone: NASA Upgrades Ingenuity Rover's Navigation Algorithm

The United States space agency is upgrading the system that pilots its helicopter on the Red Planet. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that Ingenuity, a drone sent to Mars as part of its 2020 mission to Mars, will receive a new collision-avoidance algorithm.

June 29, 20222 min read
Deep Doo-Doo: AI App Diagnoses Poop Better Than People
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Deep Doo-Doo: AI App Diagnoses Poop Better Than People

People who suffer from gastrointestinal conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome are number two when it comes to describing the characteristics of their own poop.

June 22, 20222 min read
Deep Doo-Doo: AI App Diagnoses Poop Better Than People
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Deep Doo-Doo: AI App Diagnoses Poop Better Than People

People who suffer from gastrointestinal conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome are number two when it comes to describing the characteristics of their own poop.

June 22, 20222 min read
Managing Medical Uncertainty: How Hospitals Use AI to Protect Patients
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Managing Medical Uncertainty: How Hospitals Use AI to Protect Patients

Hospitals across the United States are relying on AI to keep patients safe. Doctors are using a variety of machine learning systems to assess the risk that a given patient will suffer complications.

May 4, 20222 min read
Managing Medical Uncertainty: How Hospitals Use AI to Protect Patients
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Managing Medical Uncertainty: How Hospitals Use AI to Protect Patients

Hospitals across the United States are relying on AI to keep patients safe. Doctors are using a variety of machine learning systems to assess the risk that a given patient will suffer complications.

May 4, 20222 min read
Slime Pays: AI Helps Grow Algae for Renewable Fuel
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Slime Pays: AI Helps Grow Algae for Renewable Fuel

A new machine learning technique is boosting algae as a renewable, carbon-neural source of fuel for airplanes and other vehicles typically powered by fossil fuels.

April 6, 20222 min read
Slime Pays: AI Helps Grow Algae for Renewable Fuel
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Slime Pays: AI Helps Grow Algae for Renewable Fuel

A new machine learning technique is boosting algae as a renewable, carbon-neural source of fuel for airplanes and other vehicles typically powered by fossil fuels.

April 6, 20222 min read
AI Designs Chemical Weapons: Researchers retrained a system originally designed to discover new medicines to show that it could, instead, generate molecular formulas for poisons.
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AI Designs Chemical Weapons: Researchers retrained a system originally designed to discover new medicines to show that it could, instead, generate molecular formulas for poisons.

It’s surprisingly easy to turn a well-intended machine learning model to the dark side. In an experiment, Fabio Urbina and colleagues at Collaborations Pharmaceuticals, who had built a drug-discovery model to design useful compounds and avoid toxic ones, retrained it to generate poisons.

March 30, 20222 min read
Spot the Bad Mutation: AI Model Spots Disease Linked Protein Mutations
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Spot the Bad Mutation: AI Model Spots Disease Linked Protein Mutations

Every gene in the human genome exists in a variety of mutations, and some encode protein variants that cause cells to malfunction, resulting in illness. Yet which mutations are associated with disease is largely unknown.

March 30, 20222 min read
Spot the Bad Mutation: AI Model Spots Disease Linked Protein Mutations
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Spot the Bad Mutation: AI Model Spots Disease Linked Protein Mutations

Every gene in the human genome exists in a variety of mutations, and some encode protein variants that cause cells to malfunction, resulting in illness. Yet which mutations are associated with disease is largely unknown.

March 30, 20222 min read
AI Designs Chemical Weapons: Researchers retrained a system originally designed to discover new medicines to show that it could, instead, generate molecular formulas for poisons.
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AI Designs Chemical Weapons: Researchers retrained a system originally designed to discover new medicines to show that it could, instead, generate molecular formulas for poisons.

It’s surprisingly easy to turn a well-intended machine learning model to the dark side. In an experiment, Fabio Urbina and colleagues at Collaborations Pharmaceuticals, who had built a drug-discovery model to design useful compounds and avoid toxic ones, retrained it to generate poisons.

March 30, 20222 min read
The Many Faces of Genetic Illness: Face recognition identifies childhood genetic diseases.
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The Many Faces of Genetic Illness: Face recognition identifies childhood genetic diseases.

People with certain genetic disorders share common facial features. Doctors are using computer vision to identify such syndromes in children so they can get early treatment.

March 23, 20222 min read
The Many Faces of Genetic Illness: Face recognition identifies childhood genetic diseases.
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The Many Faces of Genetic Illness: Face recognition identifies childhood genetic diseases.

People with certain genetic disorders share common facial features. Doctors are using computer vision to identify such syndromes in children so they can get early treatment.

March 23, 20222 min read
High-Energy Deep Learning: Machine learning helps stabilize nuclear fusion.
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High-Energy Deep Learning: Machine learning helps stabilize nuclear fusion.

Nuclear fusion technology, long touted as an unlimited source of safe, clean energy, took a step toward reality with a machine learning algorithm that molds the fuel in a reactor’s core.

February 24, 20223 min read
High-Energy Deep Learning: Machine learning helps stabilize nuclear fusion.
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High-Energy Deep Learning: Machine learning helps stabilize nuclear fusion.

Nuclear fusion technology, long touted as an unlimited source of safe, clean energy, took a step toward reality with a machine learning algorithm that molds the fuel in a reactor’s core.

February 24, 20223 min read

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