Robocallers vs Robolawyer: AI tool automatically sues phone spammers.
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Robocallers vs Robolawyer: AI tool automatically sues phone spammers.

A digital attorney is helping consumers take telemarketers and phone scammers to court. DoNotPay makes an app billed as the world’s first robot lawyer. Its latest offering, Robo Revenge, automates the process of suing intrusive robocallers.

February 19, 20201 min read
Tools For a Pandemic: Chinese tech giants provide resources for Covid research.
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Tools For a Pandemic: Chinese tech giants provide resources for Covid research.

Chinese tech giants have opened their AI platforms to scientists fighting coronavirus. Alibaba Cloud and Baidu are offering a powerful weapon to life-science researchers working to stop the spread of the illness officially known as Covid-19: free access to their computing horsepower and tools.

February 12, 20201 min read
Extreme Weather Warning: Deep learning system helps predict extreme temperatures.
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Extreme Weather Warning: Deep learning system helps predict extreme temperatures.

Severe heat waves and cold snaps are especially hard to forecast because atmospheric perturbations can have effects that are difficult to compute. Neural networks show promise where typical methods have stumbled.

February 12, 20201 min read
Tools For a Pandemic: Chinese tech giants provide resources for Covid research.
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Tools For a Pandemic: Chinese tech giants provide resources for Covid research.

Chinese tech giants have opened their AI platforms to scientists fighting coronavirus. Alibaba Cloud and Baidu are offering a powerful weapon to life-science researchers working to stop the spread of the illness officially known as Covid-19: free access to their computing horsepower and tools.

February 12, 20201 min read
Extreme Weather Warning: Deep learning system helps predict extreme temperatures.
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Extreme Weather Warning: Deep learning system helps predict extreme temperatures.

Severe heat waves and cold snaps are especially hard to forecast because atmospheric perturbations can have effects that are difficult to compute. Neural networks show promise where typical methods have stumbled.

February 12, 20201 min read
AI Tackles OCD: An AI-designed drug got approved for human testing.
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AI Tackles OCD: An AI-designed drug got approved for human testing.

A drug designed by AI has been approved for testing in humans. A UK startup focused on automated drug discovery teamed up with a Japanese pharmaceutical company to produce a new medicine for obsessive compulsive disorder.

February 5, 20201 min read
Protein Shapes Revealed: A summary of the AlphaFold research paper
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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
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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
AI Tackles OCD: An AI-designed drug got approved for human testing.
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AI Tackles OCD: An AI-designed drug got approved for human testing.

A drug designed by AI has been approved for testing in humans. A UK startup focused on automated drug discovery teamed up with a Japanese pharmaceutical company to produce a new medicine for obsessive compulsive disorder.

February 5, 20201 min read
Stopping Coronavirus: How Bluedot identified Covid-19 before health authorities
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Stopping Coronavirus: How Bluedot identified Covid-19 before health authorities

A company that analyzes online information to predict epidemics spotted the upsurge in coronavirus at least a week ahead of public-health authorities. Canadian startup BlueDot alerted customers to the outbreak in he Chinese city of Wuhan on New Year’s Eve.

January 29, 20202 min read
Stopping Coronavirus: How Bluedot identified Covid-19 before health authorities
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Stopping Coronavirus: How Bluedot identified Covid-19 before health authorities

A company that analyzes online information to predict epidemics spotted the upsurge in coronavirus at least a week ahead of public-health authorities. Canadian startup BlueDot alerted customers to the outbreak in he Chinese city of Wuhan on New Year’s Eve.

January 29, 20202 min read
Virtual Creatures Come to Life: Researchers programmed AI to design living machines
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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
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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
Forecasting Blockbusters: Movie studios are using AI to predict box office success.
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Forecasting Blockbusters: Movie studios are using AI to predict box office success.

Could a black box become Hollywood’s crystal ball?What’s new: Warner Bros. is using an AI-powered tool that predicts a movie’s box-office success, according to Hollywood Reporter.

January 15, 20201 min read
Forecasting Blockbusters: Movie studios are using AI to predict box office success.
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Forecasting Blockbusters: Movie studios are using AI to predict box office success.

Could a black box become Hollywood’s crystal ball?What’s new: Warner Bros. is using an AI-powered tool that predicts a movie’s box-office success, according to Hollywood Reporter.

January 15, 20201 min read

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