What's Catching Our Eye
Curated news and analysis on breakthroughs in transformative technologies like Generative AI, Biotech, Robotics & Mobility
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Living Brain Tissue Powers Breakthrough Cyber Neural Network

Researchers at Indiana University have pioneered a new kind of neural network using organoids — brain-like structures — developed from stem cells, marking a significant advance in the field.

December 28, 2023
Living Brain Tissue Powers Breakthrough Cyber Neural Network
LG's new AI assistant will roam your home on two wheels

The device …will be officially unveiled next month at CES in Las Vegas. For now, it's simply being referred to as "LG’s smart home AI agent."

December 27, 2023
LG's new AI assistant will roam your home on two wheels
Autonomous chemical research with large language models

...show the development and capabilities of Coscientist, an artificial intelligence system driven by GPT-4 that autonomously designs, plans and performs complex experiments by incorporating large language models empowered by tools such as internet and documentation search, code execution and experimental automation. Coscientist showcases its potential for accelerating research across six diverse tasks, including the successful reaction optimization of palladium-catalysed cross-couplings, while exhibiting advanced capabilities for (semi-)autonomous experimental design and execution. 

December 20, 2023
Autonomous chemical research with large language models
Explainable AI Directs Small Molecule Structural Class Drug Discovery

20 December 2023 - A key innovation of the paper is that the first instance of an explainable AI approach to drug discovery leads to the structural classification of small molecules, in this case for antimicrobials.

https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/12/16/google-ai-introduces-medlm-a-family-of-foundation-models-fine-tuned-for-healthcare-industry-use-cases/

December 20, 2023
Explainable AI Directs Small Molecule Structural Class Drug Discovery
New Tesla Optimus Gen 2 humanoid robot jumps from scripted to autonomous controls

…As you can imagine the world of technology is witnessing a significant transformation as robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) advance towards greater autonomy…. is the Robotic Transformer model, which leverages the vast amount of information available on the internet and robotics databases. This model is creating a generalized control system that enables robots to process and utilize diverse data, enhancing their ability to perform real-world tasks.

https://scitechdaily.com/revolutionizing-green-energy-a-new-hydrogen-fuel-cell-breaskthrough

December 14, 2023
New Tesla Optimus Gen 2 humanoid robot jumps from scripted to autonomous controls
DeepMind AI makes mathematical discoveries

…FunSearch to find solutions to the cap set problem, which involves determining patterns of points where no three points make a straight line… The AI found a solution consisting of 512 points in eight dimensions, larger than any previously known.

December 14, 2023
DeepMind AI makes mathematical discoveries
Charting the Emerging Geography of AI

As the AI power centers emerge and shift around the world, they will shape which AI applications are prioritized, which societies and sectors of the economy get the most benefits, what data are used to train algorithms, and which biases get included and which get neutralized — and how we balance accelerating AI innovation against building in safeguards. The authors present an index of the 25 countries that are vying for global leadership on AI — and the factors that determine which nations will pull ahead.

December 12, 2023
Charting the Emerging Geography of AI
Tesla Shows Off Optimus Gen 2 Robot With Improved Hands, Slimmer Figure

...the human-mimicking machine is part of Tesla’s venture into developing artificial intelligence and utilizes a trained neural network to perform basic tasks. ...shows the bot delicately picking up and handling an egg, with what it describes as “tactile sensing on all fingers.”

December 12, 2023
Tesla Shows Off Optimus Gen 2 Robot With Improved Hands, Slimmer Figure
Alphafold's place in the world

11 December 2023 - Risks of Alphafold

December 11, 2023
Alphafold's place in the world
MAMBA: A candidate to move us past Transformers

If claims of this research paper are verified, the AI world is about to leapfrog higher in the months to come. The framework introduces new neural network method that scales linearly as against Transformers who quadratically, leading to 5x faster inference among the claims of a host of other advantages. The staggering claims are across different modalities.

December 9, 2023
MAMBA: A candidate to move us past Transformers