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AI Science and Medicine News: Week Ending 02/09/2024

February 18, 2024

Science and Medicine AI News

“A $1M contest worked to extract text from scans of charred scrolls buried by Mt. Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 A.D. The winning AI algorithm revealed over 2,000 readable characters! Tech like this is going to uncover/rewrite so much of history as we know it. https://t.co/cdUYeE7An7” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1755065118809813390

“Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000… https://t.co/fihs9ADb48” / X – https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1754519304471814555

““Researchers used artificial intelligence to decipher the text of 2,000-year-old charred papyrus scripts, unveiling musings on music and capers.”” / X – https://twitter.com/Scobleizer/status/1754764724183629939

“Epic breakthrough on the Herculaneum scrolls! Three students have used AI to reveal an ancient essay on pleasure, scooping them the Vesuvius Challenge grand prize. Here’s my story for @nature https://t.co/fvD2vFFd1p @scrollprize” / X – https://twitter.com/JoMarchant/status/1754519369290285295

Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the scrolls! | Vesuvius Challenge – https://scrollprize.org/grandprize

“Making vacuum vessels for our fusion systems! https://t.co/KP9CdsfmGG” / X – https://twitter.com/Helion_Energy/status/1755745387959468320

“🎉 The best way to start the week is to find out that our MedSAM is finally published today in Nature Communications! **Segment anything in medical images** Paper: https://t.co/CFKykvt07n arXiv: https://t.co/QOC9KaCg41 Data & Code: https://t.co/r05Agl59xY MedSAM is the first… https://t.co/2tuEOgtel8” / X – https://twitter.com/BoWang87/status/1749623699546788124

“Bayreuth University scientists are using AI to analyze galaxy structures and behaviors. With how little we know about the universe, some new discoveries could get WILD. https://t.co/AqjeHdWsG5” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1754761591923294429

Scientists use AI to investigate structure and long-term behavior of galaxies – https://phys.org/news/2024-02-scientists-ai-term-behavior-galaxies.html

“Google’s Lookout App released a new feature called ‘Image Question and Answer’. The AI provides audio responses describing an uploaded image. A major unlock for helping the blind and partially-sighted better perceive the world. https://t.co/GueYYBM04A” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1755065305724772797

“Unlocking a new era in medical imaging, Stanford introduces CheXagent and CheXinstruct, a breakthrough in automated Chest X-ray interpretation! 🔍🩺 This innovative foundation model, combined with a comprehensive instruction-tuning dataset, is set to transform clinical… https://t.co/8Vx51NKQ1i” / X – https://twitter.com/rediminds/status/1750906790416425067

“How can AI help blind and partially-sighted people better perceive the world? ✨ We explain how our technology powers Image Q&A: a feature in @Google’s Lookout app enabling communities to ask questions about images. Watch the Audio Described version.→ https://t.co/KNqc6KbTWo https://t.co/TLzNo7Ub0o” / X – https://twitter.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1754890117343318229

Segmentation is an incredibly important part of AI

“MedSAM is the first promotable foundation model for medical image segmentation. The best way to start the week is to find out that our MedSAM is finally published today in Nature Communications! **Segment anything in medical images** Paper: https://t.co/CFKykvt07n arXiv: https://t.co/QOC9KaCg41 Data & Code: https://t.co/r05Agl59xY MedSAM is the first… https://t.co/2tuEOgtel8” / X – https://twitter.com/BoWang87/status/1749623699546788124

“From surface to cellular level, @hip_ct is #ImagingTheFuture by reshaping our understanding of organ structures with a game-changing X-ray technique that can scan anything from a single cell to whole organs in 3D https://t.co/IxXLTcstK5” / X – https://twitter.com/ChanZuckerberg/status/1756017810667459017

“Experiment-driven atomistic materials modeling. MLPs and on-the-fly ML-XPS prediction generate atomistic structures that match the experimental XPS. On arXiv: https://t.co/cmOgNMPC0G Esp. thanks to Tigany Zarrouk, as well as Rina Ibragimova, @apbartok, @SuomenAkatemia, @CSCfi https://t.co/9XQyIATfek” / X – https://twitter.com/m_a_caro/status/1754739938493366457

“LIVE right now: Zelman Lecturer, Dr. Anima Anandkumar (Caltech) explains how #AI can create a language model of the human genome, and predict the continuous dynamics of coronaviruses, and also the effect of viral mutations on infectiousness https://t.co/EUVvTiDfJS” / X – https://twitter.com/PTenigma/status/1755412697297170731

“A Surgeon’s Impressions on Apple’s New Eyes **Redefining Healthcare: A VisionPro Odyssey** In the realm of healthcare, where human touch intersects with the precision of technology, Apple’s VisionPro headset emerges not just as a tool, but as a harbinger of a new era. This isn’t… https://t.co/W0T9Y9aj1m” / X – https://twitter.com/ZGJR/status/1755053331901296994

How AI Is Helping Us Learn About Birds

Machine learning is powering new insights into how birds migrate—and forecasts about where they’ll go next

https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2024/02/03/how-ai-is-helping-us-learn-about-birds

FunSearch: Making new discoveries in mathematical sciences using Large Language Models – Google DeepMind – https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/funsearch-making-new-discoveries-in-mathematical-sciences-using-large-language-models/

“🚀 DeepSeekMath: Approaching Mathematical Reasoning Capability of GPT-4 with a 7B Model. Highlights: – Continue pre-training DeepSeek-Coder-Base-v1.5 7B with 120B math tokens from Common Crawl. – Introduce GRPO, a variant of PPO, that enhances mathematical reasoning and reduces… https://t.co/8FDMiWGx5V” / X – https://twitter.com/deepseek_ai/status/1754701472363958581?s=46

Anti-aging pill for senior dogs is now in clinical trials – https://www.freethink.com/health/anti-aging-pill-for-senior-dogs

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AI News #19: Week Ending 02/02/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 18 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.