Which Drug Helps Your Depression?: AI System Matches Patients With the Right Depression Drug
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Which Drug Helps Your Depression?: AI System Matches Patients With the Right Depression Drug

Deep learning can predict how patients will respond to two antidepressant medicines.

December 1, 20212 min read
Which Drug Helps Your Depression?: AI System Matches Patients With the Right Depression Drug
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Which Drug Helps Your Depression?: AI System Matches Patients With the Right Depression Drug

Deep learning can predict how patients will respond to two antidepressant medicines.

December 1, 20212 min read
Solar System: AI Helps NASA Calibrate its Solar Telescopes
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Solar System: AI Helps NASA Calibrate its Solar Telescopes

Astronomers may use deep learning to keep the sun in focus.What’s new: Researchers at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Catholic University of America, University of Oslo, and elsewhere developed a model that helps recalibrate a space telescope focused on the sun.

September 8, 20211 min read
Solar System: AI Helps NASA Calibrate its Solar Telescopes
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Solar System: AI Helps NASA Calibrate its Solar Telescopes

Astronomers may use deep learning to keep the sun in focus.What’s new: Researchers at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Catholic University of America, University of Oslo, and elsewhere developed a model that helps recalibrate a space telescope focused on the sun.

September 8, 20211 min read
Listening to the Brain: NLP System Translates a Man's Brain Activity Into Words
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Listening to the Brain: NLP System Translates a Man's Brain Activity Into Words

Neural networks translated a paralyzed man’s brainwaves into conversational phrases. Researchers trained a system to interpret electrical impulses from the brain of a man who had lost the ability to speak 15 years ago, and displayed them as words on a video screen.

July 21, 20211 min read
Listening to the Brain: NLP System Translates a Man's Brain Activity Into Words
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Listening to the Brain: NLP System Translates a Man's Brain Activity Into Words

Neural networks translated a paralyzed man’s brainwaves into conversational phrases. Researchers trained a system to interpret electrical impulses from the brain of a man who had lost the ability to speak 15 years ago, and displayed them as words on a video screen.

July 21, 20211 min read
Bugbot: How AI can help with the insect biodiversity crisis.
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Bugbot: How AI can help with the insect biodiversity crisis.

An insect-sorting robot could help scientists grapple with the global biodiversity crisis. An automated insect classifier sucks in tiny arthropods, classifies them, and maps their most important identifying features.

July 7, 20212 min read
Bugbot: How AI can help with the insect biodiversity crisis.
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Bugbot: How AI can help with the insect biodiversity crisis.

An insect-sorting robot could help scientists grapple with the global biodiversity crisis. An automated insect classifier sucks in tiny arthropods, classifies them, and maps their most important identifying features.

July 7, 20212 min read
Sorting Shattered Traditions: Archaeologists use machine learning to classify pottery.
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Sorting Shattered Traditions: Archaeologists use machine learning to classify pottery.

Computer vision is probing the history of ancient pottery | What’s new: Researchers at Northern Arizona University developed a machine learning model that identifies different styles of Native American painting on ceramic fragments and sorts the shards by historical period.

June 23, 20211 min read
Sorting Shattered Traditions: Archaeologists use machine learning to classify pottery.
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Sorting Shattered Traditions: Archaeologists use machine learning to classify pottery.

Computer vision is probing the history of ancient pottery | What’s new: Researchers at Northern Arizona University developed a machine learning model that identifies different styles of Native American painting on ceramic fragments and sorts the shards by historical period.

June 23, 20211 min read
Algorithms for Orcas: AI-powered drones help with killer whale conservation.
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Algorithms for Orcas: AI-powered drones help with killer whale conservation.

A combination of computer vision and drones could help restore dwindling killer whale populations. Researchers at Oregon State University and conservation groups SR3 and Vulcan developed a system that assesses the health of orcas.

May 19, 20211 min read
Medical AI Gets a Grip: An AI System controlled DaVinci surgical robots.
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Medical AI Gets a Grip: An AI System controlled DaVinci surgical robots.

Surgical robots perform millions of delicate operations annually under human control. Now they’re getting ready to operate on their own.

May 19, 20212 min read
Algorithms for Orcas: AI-powered drones help with killer whale conservation.
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Algorithms for Orcas: AI-powered drones help with killer whale conservation.

A combination of computer vision and drones could help restore dwindling killer whale populations. Researchers at Oregon State University and conservation groups SR3 and Vulcan developed a system that assesses the health of orcas.

May 19, 20211 min read
Medical AI Gets a Grip: An AI System controlled DaVinci surgical robots.
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Medical AI Gets a Grip: An AI System controlled DaVinci surgical robots.

Surgical robots perform millions of delicate operations annually under human control. Now they’re getting ready to operate on their own.

May 19, 20212 min read
Would Your Doctor Take AI’s Advice?: Some doctors are skeptical of AI diagnoses.
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Would Your Doctor Take AI’s Advice?: Some doctors are skeptical of AI diagnoses.

Some doctors don’t trust a second opinion when it comes from an AI system. A team at MIT and Regensburg University investigated how physicians responded to diagnostic advice they received from a machine learning model versus a human expert.

April 7, 20211 min read

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