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AI can help to tailor drugs for Africa

Africa holds the world’s most genetically diverse human population… Yet pharmacogenomics research — studies of how genetic variation plays into drug responses — is sorely lacking in African populations… Artificial intelligence (AI) can help to close the gap.

April 9, 2024
AI can help to tailor drugs for Africa
Genomic language model predicts protein co-regulation and function

Deciphering the relationship between a gene and its genomic context is fundamental to understanding and engineering biological systems. Machine learning has shown promise in learning latent relationships underlying the sequence-structure-function paradigm from massive protein sequence datasets. 

April 3, 2024
Genomic language model predicts protein co-regulation and function
In a first, FDA authorizes AI-driven test to predict sepsis in hospitals

To build its test, Prenosis …trained its algorithm to recognize the health measures most associated with developing sepsis. The company narrowed its test to 22 parameters, including blood-based measures and other vital signs such as temperature and heart rate.

April 3, 2024
In a first, FDA authorizes AI-driven test to predict sepsis in hospitals
JPMorgan Chase Continues AI Rampage with Volatility Prediction Patent

This financial health data is fed to a machine learning model, which performs a “vulnerability assessment” on different companies and compares them to a “sector benchmark” based on the value and volatility of average companies in its specific industry. 

April 3, 2024
JPMorgan Chase Continues AI Rampage with Volatility Prediction Patent
The most reliable logical qubits on record with an error rate 800x better than physical qubits

Microsoft’s breakthrough qubit-virtualization system, with error diagnostics and correction, and Quantinuum’s ion-trap hardware, more than 14,000 individual experiments ran without a single error…It is made possible by the collective advancement of quantum hardware, qubit virtualization and correction, and hybrid applications that take advantage of the best of AI, supercomputing, and quantum capabilities. 

April 3, 2024
The most reliable logical qubits on record with an error rate 800x better than physical qubits
Chatbot outperformed physicians in clinical reasoning in head-to-head study

ChatGPT-4, an artificial intelligence program designed to understand and generate human-like text, outperformed internal medicine residents and attending physicians at two academic medical centers at processing medical data and demonstrating clinical reasoning.

April 1, 2024
Chatbot outperformed physicians in clinical reasoning in head-to-head study
Microsoft and OpenAI plan to build a $100 billion supercomputer

30 March 2024 - The supercomputer could be 100 times more expensive than the largest data centers currently in operation…Stargate also has the potential to far exceed the computing power currently supplied by Microsoft to OpenAI from its data centers around the country

https://syncedreview.com/2024/03/29/robotic-marvels-conquering-san-franciscos-streets-through-next-token-prediction

March 30, 2024
Microsoft and OpenAI plan to build a $100 billion supercomputer
AIOS: LLM Agent Operating System

27 March 2024 - We present the architecture of such an operating system...on concurrent execution of multiple agents demonstrate the reliability and efficiency of our AIOS modules. Through this, we aim to not only improve the performance and efficiency of LLM agents but also to pioneer for better development and deployment of the AIOS ecosystem in the future. 

March 27, 2024
AIOS: LLM Agent Operating System
New High-Throughput, AI-Based, Protein Prediction Method May Advance Drug Discovery

The authors noted that the technique is accurate, fast, cost-effective, and has the potential to revolutionize drug discovery by uncovering more targets for new treatments. This work in Nature Communications …, High-throughput prediction of protein conformational distributions with subsampled AlphaFold2.

March 27, 2024
New High-Throughput, AI-Based, Protein Prediction Method May Advance Drug Discovery
How AI is improving climate forecasts

Researchers are using various machine-learning strategies to speed up climate modelling, reduce its energy costs and hopefully improve accuracy.

March 26, 2024
How AI is improving climate forecasts