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Apple, Microsoft Shrink AI Models to Improve Them

These models are a fraction of the size of their LLM counterparts and yet, on many benchmarks, can match or even outperform them in text generation.

June 20, 2024
Apple, Microsoft Shrink AI Models to Improve Them
…predicting Parkinson’s disease up to 7 years before symptom onset

…machine-learning model accurately identifies all Parkinson patients and classifies 79% of the pre-motor individuals up to 7 years before motor onset by analysing the expression of eight proteins…specific blood panel indicates molecular events in early stages and could help identify at-risk participants for clinical trials aimed at slowing/preventing motor Parkinson’s disease.

June 18, 2024
…predicting Parkinson’s disease up to 7 years before symptom onset
How A.I. Is Revolutionizing Drug Development

Just as popular chatbots like ChatGPT are trained on text across the internet,...A.I. for drug discovery relies on ...molecular information, protein structures and measurements of biochemical interactions. The A.I. learns from patterns ...to suggest possible useful drug candidates...Today’s A.I. drugmakers are typically focused on accelerating the preclinical stages.

June 17, 2024
How A.I. Is Revolutionizing Drug Development
AI shows how field crops develop: Software can simulate future growth based on a single initial image

...the program must be fed with drone photos from field experiments. ...The researchers then trained a learning algorithm ...based on a single aerial image of an early stage of growth, this algorithm was able to generate images showing the future development of the crop.

June 17, 2024
AI shows how field crops develop: Software can simulate future growth based on a single initial image
Can LLMs invent better ways to train LLMs?

…propose and run an LLM-driven discovery process to synthesize novel preference optimization algorithms…to discover multiple high-performing preference optimization losses. One such loss… (DiscoPOP), achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple held-out evaluation tasks…to discover surprising and counterintuitive features.

External link: Pathchat AI Pathology Chatbot Mass General Brigham

June 13, 2024
Can LLMs invent better ways to train LLMs?
A technique for more effective multipurpose robots

With generative AI models, researchers combined robotics data from different sources to help robots learn better.

June 12, 2024
A technique for more effective multipurpose robots
AI discovers new rare-earth-free magnet at 200 times the speed of man

…has designed a new rare-earth-free permanent magnet with the help of its AI platform. It says the AI-driven discovery and development process was 200 times faster than the resource-intensive manual route, 

June 12, 2024
AI discovers new rare-earth-free magnet at 200 times the speed of man
The Mystique of Ozempic Is Growing

Obesity drugs keep getting linked to health benefits beyond weight loss. It’s maddeningly difficult to figure out what’s causing them.

June 11, 2024
The Mystique of Ozempic Is Growing
Towards Dog Bark Decoding: Leveraging Human Speech Processing for Automated Bark Classification

...specifically address four tasks: dog recognition, breed identification, gender classification, and context grounding...using speech embedding representations significantly improves over simpler classification baselines. Further, ... can provide additional performance boosts on several tasks.

June 9, 2024
Towards Dog Bark Decoding: Leveraging Human Speech Processing for Automated Bark Classification
Toward Autonomous Driving by Musculoskeletal Humanoids

The musculoskeletal humanoid, which mimics the human body in detail, has redundant sensors and a flexible body structure. These characteristics are suitable for motions with complex environmental contact, and the robot is expected to sit down on the car seat, step on the acceleration and brake pedals, and operate the steering wheel by both arms.

June 8, 2024
Toward Autonomous Driving by Musculoskeletal Humanoids