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AI uncovers the universe's 'settings' with unprecedented precision, and it could help to resolve the Hubble tension

Scientists use six cosmological parameters to describe the large-scale makeup of our universe….Getting precise estimates of these numbers is important for understanding how our universe began and how it will evolve…By applying AI to the problem, the researchers were able to extract numbers for the parameters across smaller scales, yielding a result for our universe's matter clumping that had less than half the uncertainty of previous results.

August 21, 2024
AI uncovers the universe's 'settings' with unprecedented precision, and it could help to resolve the Hubble tension
A Personalized Brain Pacemaker for Parkinson’s

In a new frontier for deep brain stimulation, researchers used A.I. to develop individualized algorithms, which helped a skateboarder and other patients with Parkinson’s disease.

August 19, 2024
A Personalized Brain Pacemaker for Parkinson’s
Former Huawei ‘Genius Youth’ recruit launches humanoid robots to rival Tesla’s Optimus

The company’s flagship Yuanzheng A2 biped humanoid robot – standing at 175 centimetres and weighing 55 kilograms – is built with various sensors and powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that enables it to see and hear as well as understand text, audio and visual information.

August 19, 2024
Former Huawei ‘Genius Youth’ recruit launches humanoid robots to rival Tesla’s Optimus
AI Designed Proteins Morph on Demand for Steerable Functionality

have engineered proteins that can reliably and accurately transition between assembly and disassembly through allosteric control. Leveraging AI to design new proteins not found in nature, the authors engineered a wide variety of dynamic protein arrangements to provide a roadmap for applications in triggerable delivery systems, biosensing, cellular feedback control circuitry, and more.

August 14, 2024
AI Designed Proteins Morph on Demand for Steerable Functionality
The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery

to introduce The AI Scientist, the first comprehensive system for fully automatic scientific discovery, enabling Foundation Models such as Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform research independently…The AI Scientist automates the entire research lifecycle, from generating novel research ideas, writing any necessary code, and executing experiments, to summarizing experimental results, visualizing them, and presenting its findings in a full scientific manuscript.

August 13, 2024
The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery
Piecing Together an Ancient Epic Was Slow Work. Until A.I. Got Involved

Scholars have struggled to identify fragments of the epic of Gilgamesh — one of the world’s oldest literary texts. Now A.I. has brought an “extreme acceleration” to the field.

August 12, 2024
Piecing Together an Ancient Epic Was Slow Work. Until A.I. Got Involved
A Foundation Model for ECG Analysis (GitHub Repo)

ECG-FM is a foundation model for electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis. Committed to open-source practices, ECG-FM was developed in collaboration with the fairseq_signals framework, which implements a collection of deep learning methods for ECG analysis.

August 12, 2024
A Foundation Model for ECG Analysis (GitHub Repo)
The Benefits of Ozempic Are Multiplying

There’s mounting evidence that GLP-1 drugs have health benefits beyond diabetes and weight loss, for conditions ranging from addiction to Parkinson’s—and scientists are evolving theories of why.

August 8, 2024
The Benefits of Ozempic Are Multiplying
Study reveals AI’s potential to detect loneliness by deciphering speech patterns

Loneliness is a pervasive issue affecting people of all ages…The problem is exacerbated by age-related factors such as the loss of loved ones, decreased mobility, and health challenges.

August 7, 2024
Study reveals AI’s potential to detect loneliness by deciphering speech patterns
Figure Unveils Second-Generation Humanoid, Setting New Standards in AI and Robotics

combines the dexterity of the human form with advanced AI to perform a wide range of tasks across commercial applications and, in the near future, the home.

August 5, 2024
Figure Unveils Second-Generation Humanoid, Setting New Standards in AI and Robotics