Ethan B. Holland

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A futuristic laboratory with advanced AI analyzing DNA strands, featuring a digital screen displaying genetic data and a robotic arm manipulating a DNA model, illuminated by natural light, symbolizing AI's role in genetics and drug development.

AI Science and Medicine News: Week Ending 03/01/2024

“Introducing Evo: a long-context biological model based on StripedHyena that generalizes across DNA, RNA, and proteins. It is capable of prediction tasks and generative design, from molecular to whole genome scale (over 650k tokens in length). https://t.co/60lVyE3N7g https://t.co/GpxpSig0n9” / X – https://twitter.com/togethercompute/status/1762510554600804439 

“Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he believes humans will no longer need to know how to code in the future. He also argues that kids should stop learning how to code. Don’t fully agree with this. But Jensen’s a good marketer (and this is going super viral). https://t.co/BlTWfPFLW1” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1762345788116459671

Expect AI-made prescription drugs to be ready for clinical trials in a couple of years, predicts Google DeepMind CEO – https://www.yahoo.com/news/expect-ai-made-prescription-drugs-211142860.html

Evo: Long-context modeling from molecular to genome scale – https://www.together.ai/blog/evo 

Artificial intelligence reveals prostate cancer is not just one disease – Cancer Research UK – Cancer News https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2024/02/29/artificial-intelligence-reveals-prostate-cancer-is-not-just-one-disease/

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AI News #22: Week Ending 03/01/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 25 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.

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Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile. 

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