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AI Science and Medicine News: Week Ending 01/26/2024

February 5, 2024

Science/Medicine

Seeing AI App Launches on Android – Including new and updated features and new languages.

Seeing AI is a free app that narrates the world for blind and low vision people, including myself, right from your mobile device. It supports individuals with a variety of daily tasks such as reading mail, identifying everyday products, hearing descriptions of photos, and much more.

Seeing AI App Launches on Android – Including new and updated features and new languages.

GPT-4, without special prompting, beat Stanford School of Medicine students in free-response case questions. “Our findings underscore challenges and opportunities for medical training and practice and suggest likelihood of more future dramatic advances.”

GPT-4, without special prompting, beat Stanford School of Medicine students in free-response case questions.

“Our findings underscore challenges and opportunities for medical training and practice and suggest likelihood of more future dramatic advances.” https://t.co/b5ZTGaAPmT pic.twitter.com/Cnpx8k6c14
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) January 25, 2024

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2806980

An impressive early 2024 milestone – this AI-powered real-time ultrasound image analysis technology was cleared de novo by the FDA! Techsomed’s BioTraceIO system is focused on enhancing patient safety and precision, e.g., in liver treatments with radiofrequency and microwaves.

An impressive early 2024 milestone – this AI-powered real-time ultrasound image analysis technology was cleared de novo by the FDA!

Techsomed's BioTraceIO system is focused on enhancing patient safety and precision, e.g., in liver treatments with radiofrequency and microwaves. pic.twitter.com/vWpSWaSBmt
— Mindaugas Galvosas, MD (@MGalvosas) January 23, 2024

AI learns to simulate how trees grow and shape in response to their environments

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-01-ai-simulate-trees-response-environments.html

AI matches humans in breast cancer diagnosis. (old article from August, but worth reposting)

A deep learning system detected breast cancer in mammograms as well as experienced radiologists, according to a landmark study.

https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/ai-matches-humans-in-breast-cancer-diagnosis

When will an AI win a Gold Medal in the International Math Olympiad?

https://www.metaculus.com/questions/6728/ai-wins-imo-gold-medal

Autonomous synthesis robot uses AI to speed up chemical discovery

https://phys.org/news/2024-01-autonomous-synthesis-robot-ai-chemical.html

AlphaFold found thousands of possible psychedelics. Will its predictions help drug discovery?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00130-8

About two years ago (late 2021), we had a change in direction at Mitra Robot to focus on senior care companion robots. Here is a thread on the key challenges we solved for building the world leading companion robot.

About two years ago (late 2021), we had a change in direction at Mitra Robot to focus on senior care companion robots. Here is a thread on the key challenges we solved for building the world leading companion robot.
— Dr. Balaji Viswanathan (@balajivis) January 24, 2024

Excited to be part of Oslo Cancer’s Cancer Crosslinks Event today, discussing AI-Driven Innovations in Cancer Pathways. Revolutionizing Oncology with AI is a game-changer, and I’m proud that my lab contributes to this vital research.

https://www.vanderschaar-lab.com/spotlight-on-cancer-research-projects

Excited to be part of @OsloCancer's Cancer Crosslinks Event today, discussing AI-Driven Innovations in Cancer Pathways. Revolutionizing Oncology with AI is a game-changer, and I'm proud that my lab contributes to this vital research. Check out our work: https://t.co/YPkYorADGA
— Mihaela van der Schaar (@MihaelaVDS) January 25, 2024

7 Things To Expect From AI In Healthcare This Year

https://medicalfuturist.com/7-things-to-expect-from-ai-in-healthcare-this-year

Evaluating the Medical Knowledge of Open LLMs – Part 1

https://www.medarc.ai/blog/medarc-llms-eval-part-1

Our research on ‘Almanac: Retrieval Augmented LLMs for Clinical Medicine’ is finally out on

NEJM AI We demonstrate that LLMs augmented with tools (browser, calculators) outperform ChatGPT-4 & others on a novel dataset of 300+ questions assessed by board-certified physicians!

https://ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/AIoa2300068

A new device called Morpheus-1 was revealed to help humans control lucid dreaming.

AI NEWS: A new device called Morpheus-1 was revealed to help humans control lucid dreaming.

Plus, huge developments from Meta, KitKat, OpenAI, and 6 new tools.

Here's everything you need to know:
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) January 26, 2024

INTRODUCING MORPHEUS-1

The world’s first multi-modal generative ultrasonic transformer designed to induce and stabilize lucid dreams. Available for beta users Spring 2024

INTRODUCING MORPHEUS-1

The world’s first multi-modal generative ultrasonic transformer designed to induce and stabilize lucid dreams.

Available for beta users Spring 2024 pic.twitter.com/crFJ0aNblP
— Prophetic (@PropheticAI) January 25, 2024

A pancreatic cancer risk prediction model (Prism) developed and validated on large-scale US clinical data

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-3964(23)00454-1/fulltext

Be Sure To Read “This Week In AI”

This week’s executive overview and top links are here:

AI News #17: Week Ending 01/26/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 12 Stories

The post you just read is an extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.