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AI is changing how we study bird migration

After decades of frustration, machine-learning tools are unlocking a treasure trove of acoustic data for ecologists.

December 18, 2024
AI is changing how we study bird migration
Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip

...new chip demonstrates error correction and performance that paves the way to a useful, large-scale quantum computer.Willow performed a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion (that is, 1025) years

December 9, 2024
Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip
Study claims AI could boost detection of breast cancer by 21%

...747,604 women who underwent mammography screening over a 12-month period. Overall cancer detection rates were 43% higher for those enrolled in the program compared to those who weren’t.

December 9, 2024
Study claims AI could boost detection of breast cancer by 21%
Robot nurses that monitor patients’ condition, issue medicine to be piloted at NUH in 2025

Powered by an artificial intelligence (AI) model developed by NUHS, Missi is able to speak to nurses and patients, provide information on advised dosage of medication, how to store it and the medication’s intended effects…

December 6, 2024
Robot nurses that monitor patients’ condition, issue medicine to be piloted at NUH in 2025
IBM and NASA release their updated geospatial AI foundation model

Prithvi 2.0 can zoom in much closer, picking out crops and tree-species in satellite images, and cattle and solar panels in drone data. Overall, Prithvi 2.0 achieved an average score of 75.6% on GEO-bench, an 8% improvement over the previous model.

December 6, 2024
IBM and NASA release their updated geospatial AI foundation model
Google DeepMind’s new AI model is the best yet at weather forecasting

GenCast…relies on AI methods alone. It works sort of like ChatGPT, but instead of predicting the next most likely word in a sentence, it produces the next most likely weather condition. In training, it starts with random parameters, or weights, and compares that prediction with real weather data. Over the course of training, GenCast’s parameters begin to align with the actual weather…In its predictions, it was more accurate than the current best forecas…97% of the time,

December 4, 2024
Google DeepMind’s new AI model is the best yet at weather forecasting
Virtual lab powered by ‘AI scientists’ super-charges biomedical research

In an effort to automate scientific discovery using artificial intelligence (AI), researchers have created a virtual laboratory that combines several ‘AI scientists’ — large language models with defined scientific roles — that can collaborate to achieve goals set by human researchers.

December 4, 2024
Virtual lab powered by ‘AI scientists’ super-charges biomedical research
Huge randomized trial of AI boosts discovery — at least for good scientists

Teams that were randomly assigned to use the tool discovered 44% more new materials and filed 39% more patent applications than did the ones that stuck to their standard workflow

December 3, 2024
Huge randomized trial of AI boosts discovery — at least for good scientists
World Labs’ AI can generate interactive 3D scenes from a single photo

The AI-generated scenes…are rendered live in the browser and have a controllable camera with an adjustable simulated depth of field (DoF).

December 2, 2024
World Labs’ AI can generate interactive 3D scenes from a single photo
Scientists Discover a Way to Shrink Quantum Computer Components by 1,000x

Researchers have developed a revolutionary method to produce entangled photon pairs using much thinner materials, drastically reducing the size of quantum computing components.

December 1, 2024
Scientists Discover a Way to Shrink Quantum Computer Components by 1,000x