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iphone photo. a futuristic laboratory filled with high-tech equipment and screens displaying complex data and molecular structures. In the center, a focused scientist is interacting with a transparent, touch-sensitive, holographic display that illustrates a human brain connected to neural interface devices. The lab is bathed in warm, inviting light, hinting at the promise of AI-enhanced medical breakthroughs. Various other technologies, such as a digital twin of Earth showing weather patterns and a robotic arm demonstrating precision tasks, surround the area, emphasizing AI's diverse impact on science and medicine. The scene conveys a sense of hope, innovation, and the pivotal role of AI in pushing the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare and environmental management. --ar 16:9

AI Science and Medicine News: Week Ending 03/22/2024

March 22, 2024

“At NVIDIA GTC, the company announced Earth-2. It’s a cloud platform that uses AI and digital twin tech to forecast climate change and weather with high resolution and speed. AI use cases like this will be massive for predicting extreme weather. https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1770294655579525551

Neuralink live stream demo:
https://twitter.com/neuralink/status/1770563939413496146?s=20

“BREAKING: Elon Musk just announced that Blindsight is the next Neuralink product after Telepathy. Its aim will be to work on restoring the vision of someone who was born blind. https://twitter.com/cb_doge/status/1770581009576165720?s=20

“Yesterday @nvidia CEO Jensen Huang highlighted the power of open-source science in drug discovery via DiffDock’s inclusion in BioNeMo. DiffDock was introduced in 2022 by #JameelClinic researchers @GabriCorso, @HannesStaerk, Bowen Jing, @BarzilayRegina, Tommi Jaakkola #GTC24 https://twitter.com/AIHealthMIT/status/1770479101117096061

“Researchers at Stability AI and Princeton just introduced MindEye2, a leap in reconstructing images from brain activity. The model connects the brain data to an image gen model to produce photorealistic reconstructions. AI mind reading is getting GOOD. https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1770294519897940153

“The first human Neuralink patient, who is paralysed, is able to control a computer and play chess just by thinking. https://twitter.com/cb_doge/status/1770569664923303959

“Neuralink was kind enough to open their doors for me to tour their headquarters a few weeks back. It was an amazing experience and a day I’ll never forget. This was at a company wide meeting at the end of the day. Thank you to everyone who made this possible. Hope y’all enjoy!… https://twitter.com/ModdedQuad/status/1771298116719002100

“I’m excited to share our latest fMRI-to-image paper 🥳 MindEye2: Shared-Subject Models Enable fMRI-To-Image With 1 Hour of Data! 🧠👁️ arXiv: https://twitter.com/iScienceLuvr/status/1769909429435294058

Watch Neuralink’s First Human Subject Demonstrate His Brain-Computer Interface | WIRED – https://archive.md/Zy0Nr

‘A landmark moment’: scientists use AI to design antibodies from scratch – https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00846-7

“@SmokeAwayyy Optimus limbs, replacing lost human limbs, could ultimately be controlled with superhuman dexterity by an implanted Neuralink. Deus Ex / Cyberpunk irl.” / X – https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1770705794117574692

“GPT-4 knows how to land me on the moon (P63 is indeed the correct program to run on the Apollo Guidance Computer, and I think the steps are correct, as far as any documentation I can find, which is scattered). Claude 3 refuses to help, Gemini points me towards YouTube. https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1769545362451185947

“This paper examined whether you could get LLMs to produce high-quality medical misinformation. Almost all LLMs were willing to do so under many conditions. The guardrail problem in a nutshell – should AIs refuse to produce harmful information? Will labs be held liable otherwise?” / X – https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1770621188785480097 

“Houston, we have a [health misinformation] problem. New @bmj_latest report assessing 4 LLMs https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1770581517838029168 

“Peer review is already being automated, for better or worse. “Our results suggest that between 6.5% and 16.9% of text submitted as peer reviews to these conferences could have been substantially modified by LLMs, i.e. beyond spell-checking or minor writing updates.”” / X – https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1769435764469669896

“🆕@NatMachIntell The WHO highest priority for a new antibiotic is for treatment of Acinetobacter baumanni. Then came this generative #AI: 13,500 compounds –> 6 novel, potent small molecules, easily synthesized https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1771264972149883376

Hippocratic AI Raises $53 Million Series A at a $500 – https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/03/18/2848237/0/en/Hippocratic-AI-Raises-53-Million-Series-A-at-a-500-Million-Valuation.html

Fitbit is about to get some major AI upgrades, powered by Google’s ‘Personal Health’ LLM | ZDNET – https://www.zdnet.com/article/fitbit-is-about-to-get-some-major-ai-upgrades-powered-by-googles-personal-health-llm/

Here’s a video of the first human Neuralink patient controlling a computer with his thoughts – https://www.engadget.com/heres-a-video-of-the-first-human-neuralink-patient-controlling-a-computer-with-his-thoughts-235659486.html

IBM and NASA build language models to make scientific knowledge more accessible | IBM Research Blog – https://research.ibm.com/blog/science-expert-LLM

Convergent Research Announces Major New Funding Commitment to Forest Neurotech | Business Wire – https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240311581698/en/Convergent-Research-Announces-Major-New-Funding-Commitment-to-Forest-Neurotech

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