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AI educators are coming to this school – and it's part of a trend

Students in fourth through eighth grade will be enrolled in the program, in which academic lessons for two hours a day will be delivered by personalized AI

December 24, 2024
AI educators are coming to this school – and it's part of a trend
Genesis: A Generative and Universal Physics Engine for Robotics and Beyond

Genesis is a highly-optimized physics engine that leverages GPU-accelerated parallel computation, with features like optimized collision checking, auto-hibernation, contact island, etc. Genesis delivers an unprecedented simulation speed in various scenes.

December 23, 2024
Genesis: A Generative and Universal Physics Engine for Robotics and Beyond
How Hallucinatory A.I. Helps Science Dream Up Big Breakthroughs

The smart machines, it turns out, are dreaming up riots of unrealities that help scientists track cancer, design drugs, invent medical devices, uncover weather phenomena and even win the Nobel Prize.

December 23, 2024
How Hallucinatory A.I. Helps Science Dream Up Big Breakthroughs
Quantum teleportation can survive through busy internet cables

An experiment showing that quantum and classical communication can be carried out through the same fibre at the same time may open the door to building a quantum internet with existing infrastructure.

December 20, 2024
Quantum teleportation can survive through busy internet cables
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
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%
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
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
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
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