AI actually for good

Microsoft researchers introduce MatterGen, a model that can discover new materials tailored to specific needs—like efficient solar cells or CO2 recycling—advancing progress beyond trial-and-error experiments.

The story of how one organization helped the chronically homeless demonstrates the inherent value of observation, empathy, and perseverance.

GenCast, a probabilistic weather model using artificial intelligence for weather forecasting, has greater skill and speed than the top operational medium-range weather forecast in the world and provides probabilistic, rather than deterministic, forecasts.

Artificial intelligence used to help researchers plan experiments and better predict outcomes

New York design studio Oxman has devised a system called "ecological programming" to optimise green architecture, demonstrated through a conceptual skyscraper with multiple planted platforms.

A year-and-a-half-long study on Chartwatch, an artificial intelligence system in use at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, shows the tool led to a striking 26 per cent drop in the number of unexpected deaths.

Together, two models optimized organic light-harvesting molecules

Here's how our bioacoustic foundation model, Health Acoustic Representations (HeAR), may help improve health outcomes for people across India.

Co-author Gordon Pennycook: "The work overturns a lot of how we thought about conspiracies."

A new system uses generative AI to predict weather faster and more cheaply than ever — while detecting difficult-to-spot extreme weather events — beating the world's major weather agencies.

Latimer, named after African-American inventor Lewis Latimer, is a new platform trying to make generative AI more inclusive.

Stop trying to make AI copyrights happen. It is not going to happen.

As AI systems proliferate, their greenhouse gas emissions are an increasingly important concern for human societies. In this article, we present a comparative a

Introducing Robotic Transformer 2 (RT-2), a novel vision-language-action (VLA) model that learns from both web and robotics data, and translates this knowledge into generalised instructions for robotic control, while retaining web-scale capabilities. This work builds upon Robotic Transformer 1 (RT-1), a model trained on multi-task demonstrations which can learn combinations of tasks and objects seen in the robotic data. RT-2 shows improved generalisation capabilities and semantic and visual understanding, beyond the robotic data it was exposed to. This includes interpreting new commands and responding to user commands by performing rudimentary reasoning, such as reasoning about object categories or high-level descriptions.

This week, generative AI hit a new milestone: The first fully AI-generated drug reached clinical trials in human patients.

In the realm of agriculture, the marriage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and precision farming has ushered in a new era of efficiency and sustainability.

Explore the synergy of AI and renewable energy. Discover how AI is reshaping the global energy landscape for a sustainable future.

Advancements in satellite imagery and machine learning can be used to infer the causal impact of electricity access on livelihoods, providing a low-cost, generalizable approach to evaluating public policy in data-spare environments.

Large Language Models Overview A language model is like a computer program that is trained on a large dataset of text to learn the patterns and relationships between words. This allows the model to generate new sentences or predict the likelihood of a sentence being grammatically correct. A large

When biochemist Matthew Higgins established his research group in 2006, he had malaria firmly in his sights. The mosquito-borne disease is second only to tuberculosis in terms of its devastating...

Khan Academy has come up with a safe and accurate ChatGPT tutor. It’s also the best model we have for how to develop and implement AI for the public good.

The adhesive neck patch is the latest advance by UCLA bioengineers in speech technology for people with disabilities.

Issue 2: GenAI is mostly good for productivity, what does this mean?

Tech can spot fraud and analyse sentiment as further advances are set to transform the sector

An IPL-designed algorithm would help countries match refugees and asylum seekers to the location where they have the best chance at finding employment.

Antibiogo: Diagnosis aid to treat patients with the most appropriate antibiotics