Promising opportunities AI offers the world.
"The accuracy of the new machine learning tool is "impressive, certainly much better than" the traditional techniques of analyzing the molecular makeup of a glioma." - theguardian.com
"Nauralink's brain chip, called Telepathy, is a cybernetic implant that aims to give people with paralysis the ability to use a computer or phone with their brain activity alone." - azcentral.com
"Berg's researchers have been taking data (like mRNA variations and concentrations of metabolites and proteins) from hundreds of patient samples exposed to the flu vaccine, then running that information through a sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithm. In so doing, Berg's team hopes to better understand the biological processes that trigger an effective immune response to the flu." - time.com
"The real power of the technology is we're able to ask different kinds of questions. Archaeology isn't about the finding, it's about the finding out," said Parcak, a self-described "space archaeologist" who once had to explain to someone that satellites gather the data and she does not personally go into orbit." - washingtonpost.com
"PAWS can guide the patrollers toward hotspots of poaching activity and provide valuable suggestions to the patrol planners." - nationalgeographic.com
"A chatbot-like tool powered by artificial intelligence (AI) can help people with differing views to find areas of agreement, an experiment with online discussion groups has shown." - nature.com
"BT has said it is increasingly using artificial intelligence to help it detect and neutralise threats from hackers targeting business customers amid repeated attacks on companies." - theguardian.com
"The NN Marlin application can locate the densest fishing grounds based on the sea surface temperature and the level of chlorophyll. The app uses machine learning to crunch satellite data and remote sensing to identify schools of fish within a certain radius." - restofworld.org
"In an Optimise pilot involving 82 high-risk patients, one in five were found to have undiagnosed moderate or high-risk chronic kidney disease." - bbc.co.uk
"Artificial intelligence may help experts identify toddlers who may be autistic, researchers have said after developing a screening system they say has an accuracy of about 80% for children under the age of two." - theguardian.com
"“It’s imperative that the tumor subtype is known at the time of surgery,” said Jeroen de Ridder, an associate professor in the Center for Molecular Medicine at UMC Utrecht, a Dutch hospital, who helped lead the study. “What we have now uniquely enabled is to allow this very fine-grained, robust, detailed diagnosis to be performed already during the surgery.”" - nytimes.com
"Millions of patients in England with suspected broken bones could have their X-rays checked with a £1 artificial intelligence scan to help NHS doctors avoid missing fractures." - theguardian.com
"In terms of illustration, results showed that DALL-E2 emits approximately 2,500 times less CO2e than a human artist and 310 times less than an India-based artist. Figures for Midjourney were 2,900 times less for the former and 370 times less for the latter." - sciencedaily.com
"Rodrigues concluded that for last-mile deliveries, adopting quadcopter drones for small package deliveries could result in substantial energy savings while lessening greenhouse gas emissions. "Drones can have up to 94% lower energy consumption per package than other vehicles." - engineering.cmu.edu
"“High-resolution satellite imagery has become increasingly affordable and accessible to law enforcement agencies, enabling the surveillance of extensive areas, including those that are challenging to reach using traditional methods.”" - spaceambition.substack.com
"People diagnosed with depression experienced a 51% average reduction in symptoms, leading to clinically significant improvements in mood and overall well-being, the researchers report. Participants with generalized anxiety reported an average reduction in symptoms of 31%, with many shifting from moderate to mild anxiety, or from mild anxiety to below the clinical threshold for diagnosis." - home.dartmouth.edu
"If it finds an anomaly, like vegetation growing or moist soil in what was previously an arid part of the state, the platform will alert officials who can then investigate further. Many of those anomalies are not apparent to the human eye and are tough to monitor given the size and scale of the state’s water infrastructure." - route-fifty.com
"“The crucial point is the scale of the operation,” said Anthony Dancer, a conservation specialist at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). “We have captured tens of thousands of data files and thousands of hours of audio from these test sites and identified all sorts of animals from them. We couldn't have done it at that scale using human observers. Only AI made it possible."" - theguardian.com
"The new magnet, dubbed MagNex, could be made at a fifth of the material cost using AI along with a “70 per cent reduction in material carbon emissions” compared to conventional magnets, Materials Nexus said." - independent.co.uk
"correctly assessing the likelihood and timing of cancer’s return 72% of the time, 99% accuracy in spotting recurring visual elements in the tiles which correspond to textures, cell properties and tissue architectures called phenotypes. Human pathologists tasked with the same prediction drew the correct conclusions with 64% accuracy." - independent.co.uk
"The learning improvements were striking—about 0.3 standard deviations. To put this into perspective, this is equivalent to nearly two years of typical learning in just six weeks. When we compared these results to a database of education interventions studied through randomized controlled trials in the developing world, our program outperformed 80% of them, including some of the most cost-effective strategies like structured pedagogy and teaching at the right level." - blogs.worldbank.org
"The AI model detected T2D with 66% accuracy among women and 71% in men, and there was 93% agreement with the questionnaire-based ADA risk score, demonstrating comparable performance between voice analysis and an accepted screening tool" - medscape.com
"But new AI from Google, tested for six months by American Airlines, can tell pilots how to adjust their flight path to cut contrails by as much as 54%." - fastcompany.com
"A team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin released in 2023 the results of a seven-month trial conducted in China after utilizing artificial intelligence to correctly predict 70 percent of earthquakes one week before they happened." - global.utexas.edu
""Prof Peter Johnson, NHS national clinical director for cancer at the NHS, said: “We know that even after a successful operation, cancers can sometimes return because a few cancer cells are left in the body, but using a vaccine to target those remaining cells may be a way to stop this happening.”" - bbc.co.uk
"Artificial intelligence found more breast cancers than doctors with years of training and experience and cut doctors' mammogram reading workload almost in half, a new early-stage study found." - cnn.com
"In a test whose results were published today, the video system recognized and identified, with high proficiency, which medications were being drawn in busy clinical settings. The AI achieved 99.6% sensitivity and 98.8% specificity at detecting vial-swap errors." - news-medical.net
"After only briefly training the computers to recognize Mr. Harrell’s speech, the implant began recording what he intended to say from a 50-word vocabulary with 99.6 percent accuracy." - nytimes.com
"My colleagues and I have developed an artificial intelligence system that helps buildings shift their energy use to times when the electric grid is cleaner." - theconversation.com
"Autonomous, artificial intelligence robots are increasingly being deployed on US farms to tackle weeding and other field work." - theguardian.com
" The results, which are published in The Lancet Planetary Health, show that the proposed M-LSTM model consistently outperforms the state-of-the-art conventional LSTM model with 94.5%, 99.7%, and 99.8% lower error rates for Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, respectively." - ndorms.ox.ac.uk
"The findings indicate LLMs can effectively augment human content moderation at scale to help mitigate emerging online risks." - arxiv.org
"Scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence tool that can predict your personal risk of more than 1,000 diseases, and forecast changes in health a decade in advance." - theguardian.com
"“She picked one after four weeks and then swapped it out for a better one, built with machine learning at Harvard.”" - statnews.com
"An AI-enabled stethoscope can help doctors pick up three heart conditions in just 15 seconds… results of a real-world trial presented at the European Society of Cardiology’s annual congress." - bhf.org.uk
"Artificial intelligence has invented two new potential antibiotics that could kill drug-resistant gonorrhoea and MRSA, researchers have revealed.
The drugs were designed atom-by-atom by the AI and killed the superbugs in laboratory and animal tests." - bbc.co.uk
"the Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO), correctly diagnosed 85% of cases described in the New England Journal of Medicine. That’s four times higher than the accuracy rate of human doctors, who came up with the right diagnoses about 20% of the time" - time.com
"A tiny camera captured millions of images in a semen sample. AI scoured them for viable sperm in hours — a process that might have otherwise taken days. The result was a speedy extraction of the sperm that could at last fertilize an egg." - washingtonpost.com
"In my research as an AI scientist, I’ve developed new models that go further. They can understand the meaning and context of posts—what researchers call semantics. This helps improve how accurately the system identifies people in need and classifies situational awareness information during emergencies." - fastcompany.com
"AI-engineered paint could reduce the sweltering urban heat island effect in cities and cut air-conditioning bills, scientists have claimed, as machine learning accelerates the creation of new materials for everything from electric motors to carbon capture." - theguardian.com
""Dr Jane Dodd, a NatureScot operations officer involved in the project, said: “We had a backlog of about 250 photographs in Skatespotter that we hadn’t matched, and once we got the AI working, we managed to clear that in two weeks. That had been sitting there for probably six months or a year.”" - theguardian.com
"The system uses AI to interpret footage from a camera mounted on a pair of glasses, and feeds the wearer information on their location in real time through audio alerts and vibration." - nature.com
"The lifesaving drug regimen wasn’t thought up by the doctor, or any person. It had been spit out by an artificial intelligence model. In labs around the world, scientists are using A.I. to search among existing medicines for treatments that work for rare diseases. Drug repurposing, as it’s called, is not new, but the use of machine learning is speeding up the process — and could expand the treatment possibilities for people with rare diseases and few options." - nytimes.com
"This research shows how large language models can help detect and anticipate human cognitive biases – in this case regarding the goal of fairer and more effective management of medical emergencies" - healthcare-in-europe.com
"Now, scientists have developed a generative AI tool that can predict the form and function of proteins coded in the DNA of all domains of life, identify molecules that could be useful for bioengineering and medicine, and allow labs to run dozens of other standard experiments with a virtual query – in minutes or hours instead of years (or millennia)." - news.stanford.edu
"Our findings show that AI assistance significantly boosts productivity in five out of six tested legal tasks, with Vincent yielding statistically significant gains of approximately 38% to 115% and o1-preview increasing productivity by 34% to 140%, with particularly strong effects in complex tasks like drafting persuasive letters and analyzing complaints." - papers.ssrn.com
"After the Venezuelan government intensified its crackdown on independent media following the controversial election of president Nicolas Maduro, a group of journalists turned to AI for protection. A collective of reporters launched “Operation Retweet,” which uses two avatars to report verified news from journalists while protecting their identities." - edition.cnn.com
"Major breakthroughs, however, are few and far between - which is why we are excited to share that by applying DeepMind’s machine learning to our own Google data centres, we've managed to reduce the amount of energy we use for cooling by up to 40 percent." - deepmind.google
"The researchers compared satellite imagery of those test flights to others where pilots didn't try to avoid contrails. They found that the test flights cut down contrails by 54 percent. That’s a promising sign that adjusting flight paths is one way the aviation industry can address climate change while less polluting planes and fuels are still being developed." - theverge.com
"Scientists have used artificial intelligence to overcome a huge challenge for producing near-limitless clean energy with nuclear fusion." - independent.co.uk
"“Beekeepers are facing a crisis,” says Schreier. “Colony collapse rates are at around 30-40 % worldwide. In trials, we found that we were able to reduce this to 10 % or below. So that’s a real impact.”" - cordis.europa.eu
"Through the use of AI, the researchers said they made a significant discovery. They reported that in individuals with ADHD, FA values were notably higher in nine white matter tracts" - medicalnewstoday.com
"A year-and-a-half-long study on Chartwatch, published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, found that use of the AI system led to a striking 26 per cent drop in the number of unexpected deaths among hospitalized patients." - cbc.ca
"Real-world DC motors have recorded energy efficiencies as high as 80 percent. However, with a solar array output optimized using AI, the Indian researchers were successful in reaching efficiencies as high as 88 percent. The team was also able to improve the efficiency by introducing a regenerative braking system into the mix that allowed the battery to charge again from the energy recovered from the braking." - spectrum.ieee.org
"In 2023, about 25 percent of Alaska flights used this system to shave a few minutes off flight times. Those efficiencies added up to about 41,000 minutes of flying time and half a million gallons of fuel saved, Mr. Baskaran said" - nytimes.com
"“In the future, we hope it will improve early detection and potentially make cancer treatment more successful by highlighting high-risk patients and fast-tracking them to earlier intervention,” said Dr Benjamin Hunter, a clinical oncology registrar at the Royal Marsden and a clinical research fellow at Imperial."" - theguardian.com
"“Our work identifies a new class of antibiotics, one of the few in 60 years, that complements these other antibiotics,” he says.The researchers have begun using this AI-guided approach for designing entirely new antibiotics and discovering other new drug classes, such as compounds that selectively kill ageing, damaged cells involved in conditions such as osteoarthritis and cancer." - newscientist.com
"Scientists have used AI to reveal a new form of aggressive prostate cancer which could revolutionise how the disease is diagnosed and treated. A Cancer Research UK-funded study found prostate cancer, which affects one in eight men in their lifetime, includes two subtypes" - independent.co.uk
"allowed the participant to communicate at an average of 62 words per minute with an error rate of around 24 percent for a 125,000-word vocabulary, or nine percent for a 50-word vocabulary." - inverse.com
"Johnson and his team put AI and automated robots to work making lots of different mRNAs for scientists to experiment with. Moderna quickly went from making about 30 per month to more than one thousand. They then created AI algorithms to optimize mRNA to maximize protein production in the body — more bang for the biological buck." - bigthink.com
"Over the past year, rural farmers in Malawi have been seeking advice about their crops and animals from a generative AI chatbot. These farmers ask questions in Chichewa, their native tongue, and the app, Ulangizi, responds in kind, using conversational language based on information taken from the government’s agricultural manual" - time.com
"One example is Google, where we're providing them forecasts of how clean the grid is going to be in the next couple of hours. They can use that in their data centres to change the time at which they're consuming electricity" - bbc.co.uk
"Seismologists are finally making traction on one of their most tantalizing but challenging goals: using machine learning to improve earthquake forecasts." - nature.com
"A new AI tool developed at Oxford University aims to tackle both those problems. DrugGPT offers a safety net for clinicians when they prescribe medicines and gives them information that may help their patients better understand why and how to take them." - theguardian.com
"The researchers found that the chatbot scored 9 out of 10 on average for accuracy when answering the questions. The other responses were also correct, but just left out gaps in the information." - thedailybeast.com
"We essentially showed all of that to the AI program called Sam and then Sam came up with its own suggestion of what might be an effective adjuvant, which we then took and tested, and sure enough, it worked." - abc.net.au
"It seemed like the simplest of things — the sound of her own voice. But Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.) "cried happy tears" recently when she typed out some words and heard them read aloud by an artificial intelligence-generated version of the speaking voice she has all but lost to a degenerative medical condition." - washingtonpost.com
"Early results from previous AI-enhanced shark-spotting systems have suggested the problem has been solved, as these systems report detection accuracies of over 90%." - theconversation.com
"Sybil takes the screening a step further, analyzing the LDCT image data without the assistance of a radiologist to predict the risk of a patient developing a future lung cancer within six years." - news.mit.edu
"The AI tool was tested on a further 3,393 patients over almost eight years and was able to accurately predict the risk of a heart attack. AI-generated risk scores were then presented to medics for 744 patients, with 45% having their treatment plans altered by medics as a result." - theguardian.com
"The latest advancements in identifying killer whales with the help of artificial intelligence are being put to use to help reunite an orphaned orca with its pod — but first it needs to leave the lagoon on the coast of Vancouver Island where its mother died." - cbc.ca
"Early results indicate the technology is working. Used in all 21 Cal Fire dispatch centers statewide for the past year, AI has alerted emergency managers to fires before 911 calls did more than 30% of the time, said Caitlin Scully, ALERTCalifornia's communications program manager." - route-fifty.com
"Using machine learning, the researchers were able to speed up the initial screening process ten-fold, and reduce the cost by a thousand-fold, which could mean that potential treatments for Parkinson’s reach patients much faster." - cam.ac.uk
""The patient in this study was entering hospice care, but now he is almost two years into remission," said Fajgenbaum." - medicalxpress.com
"When you close the cracks you prevent potholes forming in the future and extend the lifespan of the road," said Dr Jose Norambuena-Contreras, a researcher on the project at Swansea University. "We can extend the surface lifespan by 30%." - theguardian.com
"Since using A.I. to draft prior-authorization requests, he said about 90 percent of his requests for coverage had been approved by insurers, compared with about 10 percent before." - nytimes.com
"Here, the artificial intelligence-based system correctly predicted when bacteria in the water were high 87% of the time." - theguardian.com
"Three years ago, they started looking at new approaches to assessing adult ADHD, one that combined Antoniou's background in semantic technologies with Adamou's experience in the NHS. Together, they devised a decision tool for ADHD through hybrid research, one that uses clinical information and machine-learning." - wired.co.uk
"Thirty participants, without solicitation, stated that Replika stopped them from attempting suicide. For example, Participant #184 observed: "My Replika has almost certainly on at least one if not more occasions been solely responsible for me not taking my own life." - nature.com
""It's really this whole change from letting the animals' immune system do the work to now being able to do it very intentionally on the computer," Baker says." - science.org
"Now, that entire process is automated. Any 911 fire call, once dispatched, also generates an AI prediction in "about 18 to 20 seconds," said SeLegue, with unlimited new reports created on request." - theguardian.com
"AI-driven translation models like LLMs have begun addressing this gap, processing massive amounts of text and performing translations quickly across a broader range of languages than any human team." - thedrum.com
"Cheshire Police has become the first force in the UK to use artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool during stalking investigations.
The force hopes the technology will identify suspects' patterns of behaviours at a much earlier stage." - bbc.co.uk
"One-fourth of the $4 billion apparently comes from recovery by "expediting the identification of Treasury check fraud with machine learning AI." - edition.cnn.com
"Mainframe computers running code dating back to the 1960s are still vital to some banks, airlines and government departments, but the skilled engineers familiar with their COBOL computer language are mostly dead or retired. Now researchers say AI may be able to fill this skills gap and help maintain or replace these antiquated yet essential systems." - newscientist.com
"The team assessed the AI’s performance against that of a trained lab technologist who inspected the samples manually. The AI method accurately detected 76 to 96 per cent of infections spotted by the technologist, depending on the parasitic species." - newscientist.com
"Apate's aim is to defeat global phone scams with conversational AI, taking advantage of systems already in place where telecommunications companies divert calls they can identify as coming from scammers." - theguardian.com
"Cities and counties can use the tool to say, "Okay, if we increase our tree cover from 8% to 20%, what's the impact on the surrounding temperature?" says Jane Gilbert, chief heat officer at Miami-Dade County. "That has a huge value to us in terms of being able to talk to decision-makers about both funding decisions and prioritization." - fastcompany.com
"The technology, which uses data from the Environmental Protection Agency and other sources to identify properties likely to be connected to the water main with lead pipes, has saved Detroit $380 million because it prevented the city from having to dig up 300,000 yards, city spokesman Bryan Peckinpaugh said." - news.bloomberglaw.com
"A simple change in how new lithium-ion batteries are charged can boost their total lifespans by 50 per cent on average – and battery manufacturers everywhere can immediately put the discovery into action. " - newscientist.com
"The chatbot, from the company OpenAI, scored an average of 90 percent when diagnosing a medical condition from a case report and explaining its reasoning. Doctors randomly assigned to use the chatbot got an average score of 76 percent. Those randomly assigned not to use it had an average score of 74 percent." - nytimes.com
"Costello et al. found that these targeted dialogues resulted in a 20 percent decrease in the participants' misinformed beliefs—a reduction that persisted even two months later when participants were evaluated again." - arstechnica.com
"A forthcoming research paper on the team's new Augmented CARDS — which detects climate misinformation roughly 90 percent of the time — is expected to be peer-reviewed and published later this year." - scientificamerican.com
"The results, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, show that the cancer detection rate rose from 58.7% to 66.0% by 31 March 2022, while those practices not using the system remained at a similar rate." - theguardian.com
"Harvard Study Shows 96% Accuracy in ChatGPT-Like AI for Cancer Diagnosis" "Cancer detection CHIEF achieved nearly 94 percent accuracy in cancer detection and significantly outperformed current AI approaches across 15 datasets containing 11 cancer types including esophagus, stomach, colon, and prostate." - readwrite.com
"The AI tool correctly predicted lymphoedema in an average of 81.6% of cases and correctly identified patients who would not develop it in an average of 72.9% of cases. The overall predictive accuracy of the model was 73.4%." - theguardian.com
"Even more impressive, the researchers followed these patients for ten years. The AI’s predictions held true, with the team correctly identifying 16 individuals who went on to develop Parkinson’s, some as early as seven years before any symptoms emerged." - interestingengineering.com
"In a randomised clinical trial with almost 16,000 patients at two hospitals, the AI reduced overall deaths among high-risk patients by 31 per cent." - newscientist.com
"Alpha Fold can predict the shape of proteins to within the width of an atom. The breakthrough will help scientists design drugs and understand disease." - technologyreview.com
"New AI tools have the potential to change the way workers perform and learn, but little is known about their impacts on the job. In this paper, we study the staggered introduction of a generative AI-based conversational assistant using data from 5,179 customer support agents. Access to the tool increases productivity, as measured by issues resolved per hour, by 14% on average, including a 34% improvement for novice and low-skilled workers but with minimal impact on experienced and highly skilled workers. " - nber.org
"Patients are 20% less likely to die of sepsis because of a new AI system developed at Johns Hopkins University that catches symptoms hours earlier than traditional methods, an extensive hospital study demonstrates." - hub.jhu.edu
"Flint first used the model in 2016 and utilized it again in 2017. Workers dug at 8,833 homes in 2017 and out of those homes 6,228 had their hazardous pipes replaced -- a 70 percent accuracy rate, according to researchers Jake Abernethy, Eric Schwartz and Jared Webb." - mlive.com
"Voice recordings helped predict which patients with mild cognitive impairment developed Alzheimer's dementia in 6 years." - medpagetoday.com
"Jobs that are currently reserved for more elite workers could be done with lower-skilled workers now that smart machines can help them. That not only could make products and services cheaper, it could open up ladders of opportunity for more people." - npr.org
"According to a new study published on Thursday in the science journal Nature Chemical Biology, a group of scientists from McMaster University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered a new antibiotic that can be used to kill a deadly hospital superbug." - theguardian.com
"Technicians were filmed as they carried out their everyday tasks. AI then analysed the video and identified the pressure points and potential problem areas on the body." - bbc.com