AI Against Covid Progress Report: A review of how AI was used to fight Covid-19.
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AI Against Covid Progress Report: A review of how AI was used to fight Covid-19.

A new report assessed how AI has helped address Covid-19 and where it has fallen short.

June 16, 20211 min read
AI Against Covid Progress Report: A review of how AI was used to fight Covid-19.
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AI Against Covid Progress Report: A review of how AI was used to fight Covid-19.

A new report assessed how AI has helped address Covid-19 and where it has fallen short.

June 16, 20211 min read
Crosswords Go the Way of Go: An AI system beat 1,300 humans at a crossword puzzle contest.
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Crosswords Go the Way of Go: An AI system beat 1,300 humans at a crossword puzzle contest.

A hybrid of deep learning and symbolic AI took the prize at a major puzzle competition. A system called Dr. Fill outscored nearly 1,300 human contestants at April’s annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament.

May 19, 20211 min read
Crosswords Go the Way of Go: An AI system beat 1,300 humans at a crossword puzzle contest.
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Crosswords Go the Way of Go: An AI system beat 1,300 humans at a crossword puzzle contest.

A hybrid of deep learning and symbolic AI took the prize at a major puzzle competition. A system called Dr. Fill outscored nearly 1,300 human contestants at April’s annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament.

May 19, 20211 min read
Bespoke Models on a Grand Scale: How FreshWorks uses AI to build products for sales teams.
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Bespoke Models on a Grand Scale: How FreshWorks uses AI to build products for sales teams.

When every email, text, or call a company receives could mean a sale, reps need to figure out who to reply to first. Machine learning can help, but using it at scale requires a highly automated operation.

May 12, 20212 min read
Bespoke Models on a Grand Scale: How FreshWorks uses AI to build products for sales teams.
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Bespoke Models on a Grand Scale: How FreshWorks uses AI to build products for sales teams.

When every email, text, or call a company receives could mean a sale, reps need to figure out who to reply to first. Machine learning can help, but using it at scale requires a highly automated operation.

May 12, 20212 min read
Old Drugs for New Ailments: AI searches for Covid-19 treatments among existing drugs.
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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.
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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
Cake + Cookie = Cakie: Google AI creates new dessert recipes.
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Cake + Cookie = Cakie: Google AI creates new dessert recipes.

AI may help revolutionize the human diet – or dessert, at least. Google applied AI engineer Dale Markowitz and developer advocate Sara Robinson trained a model to predict whether a recipe is...

February 24, 20211 min read
Cake + Cookie = Cakie: Google AI creates new dessert recipes.
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Cake + Cookie = Cakie: Google AI creates new dessert recipes.

AI may help revolutionize the human diet – or dessert, at least. Google applied AI engineer Dale Markowitz and developer advocate Sara Robinson trained a model to predict whether a recipe is...

February 24, 20211 min read
The Language of Viruses: Researchers trained a neural net to predict viruses in DNA.
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The Language of Viruses: Researchers trained a neural net to predict viruses in DNA.

A neural network learned to read the genes of viruses as though they were text. That could enable researchers to page ahead for potentially dangerous mutations. Researchers at MIT trained a language model to predict mutations that would enable infectious viruses to become even more virulent.

January 27, 20212 min read
The Language of Viruses: Researchers trained a neural net to predict viruses in DNA.
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The Language of Viruses: Researchers trained a neural net to predict viruses in DNA.

A neural network learned to read the genes of viruses as though they were text. That could enable researchers to page ahead for potentially dangerous mutations. Researchers at MIT trained a language model to predict mutations that would enable infectious viruses to become even more virulent.

January 27, 20212 min read
AI Versus Lead Poisoning: How BlueConduit uses AI to identify lead water lines.
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AI Versus Lead Poisoning: How BlueConduit uses AI to identify lead water lines.

An algorithm is helping cities locate pipes that could release highly toxic lead into drinking water. BlueConduit, a startup that focuses on water safety, is working with dozens of North American municipal governments to locate lead water lines so they can be replaced.

January 20, 20212 min read
AI Versus Lead Poisoning: How BlueConduit uses AI to identify lead water lines.
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AI Versus Lead Poisoning: How BlueConduit uses AI to identify lead water lines.

An algorithm is helping cities locate pipes that could release highly toxic lead into drinking water. BlueConduit, a startup that focuses on water safety, is working with dozens of North American municipal governments to locate lead water lines so they can be replaced.

January 20, 20212 min read
Charting the AI Patent Explosion: AI patents doubled between 2012 and 2019.
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Charting the AI Patent Explosion: AI patents doubled between 2012 and 2019.

A new study used AI to track the explosive growth of AI innovation. Researchers from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office deployed natural language processing to track AI’s increasing presence in four decades of patent data.

November 18, 20201 min read

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