Researchers at the Beckman Institute developed an artificial intelligence model that can accurately identify tumors and diseases in medical images. The tool draws a map to explain each diagnosis, helping doctors follow its line of reasoning, check for accuracy, and explain the results to patients.
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Working Towards Toxic-Free AI
Unlike existing work, which relies on training data from social media examples, a new benchmark, named ToxicChat, is based on examples gathered from real-world interactions between users and an AI-powered chatbot. ToxicChat is able to weed out queries that use seemingly harmless language but are actually harmful, which would pass muster with most current models.
AI technique ‘decodes’ microscope images, overcoming fundamental limit
Atomic force microscopy, or AFM, is a widely used technique that can quantitatively map material surfaces in three dimensions, but its accuracy is limited by the size of the microscope’s probe. A new AI technique overcomes this limitation and allows microscopes to resolve material features smaller than the probe’s tip.
UTSW team’s new AI method may lead to ‘automated scientists’
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) method that writes its own algorithms and may one day operate as an “automated scientis” to extract the meaning behind complex datasets.
Digital Science announces Catalyst Grant winners, supporting AI-based innovations to benefit research
Digital Science has awarded two new Catalyst Grants of £25,000 each to innovative AI-based technology ideas aimed at advancing global research.
Dimensions Research GPT – evidence-based research insights for ChatGPT platform users
Digital Science announces two new products – Dimensions Research GPT and Dimensions Research GPT Enterprise – bringing the unmatched, trusted research coverage of Dimensions to the ChatGPT platform.
Smartphone app uses AI to detect depression from facial cues
Dartmouth researchers report they have developed the first smartphone application that uses artificial intelligence paired with facial-image processing software to reliably detect the onset of depression before the user even knows something is wrong.
Five Cutting-edge Advances in Biomedical Engineering and Their Applications in Medicine
Bridging precision engineering and precision medicine to create personalized physiology avatars. Pursuing on-demand tissue and organ engineering for human health. Revolutionizing neuroscience by using AI to engineer advanced brain interface systems. Engineering the immune system for health and wellness. Designing and engineering genomes for organism repurposing and genomic perturbations.
ETRI Develops Revolutionary Light Source Device to Address Data Explosion
ETRI’s researchers have pioneered the development of light source devices that can be utilized in mega/hyper datacenters and 5G/6G mobile communication base stations. The technology innovated by the research team can transmit full HD movies of 5 GB size at a rate of 5.6 per second.
Online digital data and AI for monitoring biodiversity
The random information posted online could be used to generate information about biodiversity and its conservation.
Praedicare Leverages AI, Mathematical Models of Disease Progression and Mapping in World’s First In Silico Clinical Trial of Its Kind
The in silico trial demonstrated 2X the efficacy of the current treatment (>80% vs 39%); 3X shorter treatment time to cure (6 vs 18 months); 1 drug compared to a 3-drug combo for the standard of care; and preclinical results in shorter time than animal models.
A new way to let AI chatbots converse all day without crashing
When a human-AI conversation involves many rounds of continuous dialogue, the powerful large language machine-learning models that drive chatbots like ChatGPT sometimes start to collapse, causing the bots’ performance to rapidly deteriorate.
Road features that predict crash sites identified in new machine-learning model
Issues such as abrupt changes in speed limits and incomplete lane markings are among the most influential factors that can predict road crashes, finds new research by University of Massachusetts Amherst engineers.
Tech Layoffs Signal ‘Feeling Economy’ Shift
UMD Smith expert explains the wave of tech job layoffs as a sign of a broader, labor market shift to where “humans need to recalibrate and capitalize on strengths beyond pure intelligence—like intuition, empathy, creativity, emotion and people skills.”
HSS Research Evaluates Whether AI Chatbots Provide Reliable Medical Information
Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are more accurate than expected when asked to answer medical questions about spine surgery, but patients still need to use extreme caution when turning to these tools for help with medical decision-making.
Artificial intelligence helps predict whether antidepressants will work in patients
In patients with major depression disorder it is, thanks to use of artificial intelligence, now possible to predict within a week whether an antidepressant will work
New AI technology is helping UC Davis physicians quickly identify stroke
UC Davis Health has adopted a new technology platform, Viz.ai, to help quickly identify patients suspected of having a stroke. The hospital is the first in the Sacramento region to use the platform.
RUDN doctors made an AI histopathologist
RUDN University doctors, in collaboration with the Ivannikov Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the National Medical Research Centre for Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Perinatology Named after Academician V.I.Kulakov, built the EndoNet neural network for a more accurate and faster analysis of histological sections of the endometrium.
Experts available to discuss potential harm to patients from AI-based software in doctor’s offices
In a new commentary published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), University of Maryland School of Medicine faculty warn against the use of AI-driven software tools and other large language models to summarize patient medical data without…
The 3rd World Marketing Forum “The New Marketingverse: Meta Mitri Meetang.”
Marketing Association of Thailand, in partnership with Asia Marketing Federation, is delighted to present the prestigious “3rd World Marketing Forum.”
UAlbany Expert Available to Discuss President Biden’s Executive Order on AI
ALBANY, N.Y. (Nov. 1, 2023) — On Monday, President Biden issued a new executive order on “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence,” aimed at ensuring the United States leads the way in leveraging the promise of the technology, while also…
GW Experts Available: Britain Hosts World’s First Global AI Safety Summit
Britain is hosting the world’s first global artificial intelligence (AI) safety summit to examine the risks of AI and start an international dialogue on regulating the fast-moving technology, according to Reuters. World leaders, tech executives, academics and non-profits are meeting for…
GW Experts Available: Biden Administration Unveils Highly-Anticipated Executive Order on AI
The Biden Administration unveiled a highly-anticipated executive order on artificial intelligence (AI) today. According to The Washington Post, it marks the U.S. government’s most significant attempt yet to regulate the fast-moving technology. The order streamlines high-skilled immigration and heralds the use of AI…
The AI Revolution: Surgeons Share Insights on Integrating AI into Surgical Care
A panel of leading surgeons convened recently to discuss the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in modern surgical practices. The surgeons, all pioneers in adopting AI into their work and studying potential applications, illustrated how this technology is revolutionizing patient care before, during, and after surgery.
Scientists build on artificial intelligence to create next-generation gastric acid treatment
Nagoya University researchers used AI to design and synthesize a new, highly effective gastric acid inhibitor, demonstrating the potential of AI in pharmaceutical development.
Will machines soon be conscious?
The rise of the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) systems has led to the view that these systems might soon be conscious. However, we might underestimate the neurobiological mechanisms underlying human consciousness.
AI Insight Forum: Urgency needed to protect data laborers
Low-paid data workers who train AI models sent a letter to lawmakers ahead of a Senate meeting with AI leaders today urging Congress to protect their rights. Aditya Vashistha, assistant professor of information science at Cornell University, studies computing systems with…
SMU lab creating large synthetic datasets to reduce bias, preserve privacy in AI facial recognition systems
The quality of any artificial intelligence (AI) model relies on the data it is given. That is why researchers at SMU are creating large datasets to address bias and fairness issues found in facial recognition (FR) technology.
Responsible AI Initiative seeks to solve societal problems
The University of Utah is launching a new research initiative focused on AI that aims to responsibly use advanced AI technology to tackle societal issues. President Taylor Randall announced a $100 million investment in the newly created Responsible AI Initiative that will advance AI, led by the U’s Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute.
Study finds that AI benefits workers more than bosses
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Researchers Gordon Gao and Ritu Agarwal published a new report on Wednesday, October 11 that explores how knowledge workers (workers whose main capital is knowledge) with different levels and types of experience team with AI for productivity gains. The primary findings…
The 2023 Ameri Prize Recognizes Innovative Use of Artificial Intelligence at the U.S. Embassy in Guinea
The USC Center on Public Diplomacy (CPD) announced the 2023 recipient of the Ameri Prize for Innovation in Public Diplomacy.
What Is the Impact of Predictive AI in the Health Care Setting?
Models built on machine learning in health care can be victims of their own success, according to researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine and the University of Michigan.
Birders & AI Push Bird Conservation to the Next Level
For the first time, big data and artificial intelligence (AI) are being used to model hidden patterns in nature, not just for one bird species, but for entire ecological communities across continents. And the models follow each species’ full annual life cycle, from breeding to fall migration to nonbreeding grounds, and back north again during spring migration.
GW Expert Available: President Biden Teases Highly Anticipated Executive Order on AI
This week, U.S. President Joe Biden teased a highly anticipated executive order on artificial intelligence in the coming weeks. There were no details about the order, which was first announced in July. Biden also reiterated the United States’ commitment to working with international…
UAlbany Expert Available to Discuss The Risks of Existential Terrorism and AI
ALBANY, N.Y. (Sept. 28, 2023) — Gary Ackerman, an associate professor and associate dean at the University at Albany’s College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity (CEHC), has spent decades studying terrorism around the world — from the motivations and capabilities…
Ochsner Health to integrate generative AI into patient messaging
A small group of Ochsner clinicians will participate in testing a new Epic feature that drafts responses to routine patient requests, which will then be reviewed and edited by the clinicians. The feature is meant to speed up app response time to patients and allows doctors to spend more time with patients.
Not too big: Machine learning tames huge data sets
A machine-learning algorithm demonstrated the capability to process data that exceeds a computer’s available memory by identifying a massive data set’s key features and dividing them into manageable batches that don’t choke computer hardware. Developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the algorithm set a world record for factorizing huge data sets during a test run on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Summit, the world’s fifth-fastest supercomputer.
Equally efficient on laptops and supercomputers, the highly scalable algorithm solves hardware bottlenecks that prevent processing information from data-rich applications in cancer research, satellite imagery, social media networks, national security science and earthquake research, to name just a few.
Sasin Researchers Run Research Workshop “Next Leap” to Push Technology Application
The rapid changes in technologies affect the lives of people all over the world in terms of work, daily life, medicine, education, business, etc., leading to a necessity for proper adaptation to such development. Realizing this need, the Research Unit in Finance and Sustainability in the Disruption Era of Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration, Chulalongkorn University, initiated the “Next Leap” research workshop to drive application of technology.
AI can help write a message to a friend – but don’t do it
Using artificial intelligence applications to help craft a message to a friend is not a good idea – at least if your friend finds out about the use of AI, a new study suggests. Researchers found that people in the study perceived that a fictional friend who used AI assistance to write them a message didn’t put forth as much effort as a friend who wrote a message themselves.
FAU Lands $4.2 Million NIH Grant for Air Quality and Alzheimer’s Risks Study
Lake Okeechobee rural residents are subjected to repeated, intermittent exposures to air pollution during agricultural fires.
Artificial Intelligence Beyond the Clinic
Artificial intelligence’s impact goes beyond clinical medicine. It is reshaping science in more profound ways.
Out with the life coach, in with the chatbot
A first systematic review and meta-analysis of its kind, researchers at the University of South Australia show that chatbots are an effective tool to significantly improve physical activity, diet and sleep, in a step to get ready for the warmer months ahead.
How Good Is That AI-Penned Radiology Report?
New study identifies concerning gaps between how human radiologists score the accuracy of AI-generated radiology reports and how automated systems score them.
Convergence of Brain-Inspired AI and AGI: Exploring the Path to Intelligent Synergy
In this study, researchers provide a comprehensive overview of brain-inspired artificial intelligence (AI) from the perspective of artificial general intelligence (AGI). The investigation covers essential characteristics shared by human intelligence and AGI, vital technologies for achieving AGI, the evolution of AGI system from algorithmic and infrastructural perspectives, and AGI’s limitations and future prospects. This illuminating research deepens our understanding of brain-inspired AI and its profound implications for AGI.
Machine learning, blockchain technology could help counter spread of fake news
A proposed machine learning framework and expanded use of blockchain technology could help counter the spread of fake news by allowing content creators to focus on areas where the misinformation is likely to do the most public harm, according to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York.
Digital Science announces exclusive rollout of Dimensions AI Assistant beta version
Digital Science is pleased to announce a limited and exclusive beta launch of Dimensions AI Assistant, a new research tool designed to enhance how users engage with the wealth of knowledge available on Dimensions, among the world’s largest linked research databases.
Using cameras on transit buses to monitor traffic conditions
Researchers have proposed a novel method for counting and tracking vehicles on public roads, a development that could enhance current traffic systems and help travelers get to their destinations faster.
nference and Vanderbilt University Medical Center sign agreement to advance real-world evidence generation in complex disease populations
nference, a science-first software company transforming health care by making biomedical data computable, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, a leading academic medical center, have announced a strategic agreement aimed at advancing research through the deployment of nference’s state-of-the-art federated clinical analytics platform.
Psychology graduate explores human preferences when considering autonomous robots as companions, teammates
With the fierce debate broiling over the promise versus perceived dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and autonomous robots, Nicole Moore of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has had a study published in the American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM) that is especially timely.Titled, Stakeholder Preferences for an Autonomous Robot Teammate, Moore’s research focuses on user-held preferences: specifically, which factors in autonomous robot design are the most preferable to their human counterparts, and whether these criteria vary according to the ways the technology is applied.
‘Devil in the details’ of AI safeguards deal
The White House has announced leading artificial intelligence companies in the U.S. have agreed to voluntary commitments regarding the technology’s development. Frank Pasquale, professor at Cornell University and Cornell Tech, is an expert on the law of artificial intelligence, algorithms…