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Google’s AI attempts to predict how yeast cell genes will express themselves

In a recent study conducted in collaboration with Calico Life Sciences, Google researchers built a “genome-wide” machine learning model for the regulation of gene expression — the process by which information from a gene is used to create functional protein or RNA — in a species of yeast. While the work focused on yeast, it could be applicable to humans because it reveals how genes work…
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Salesforce’s AI Economist taps reinforcement learning to generate optimal tax policies

Salesforce today announced the AI Economist, a research environment designed to elucidate how economic design might be improved with techniques from the field of AI and machine learning. The goal is to help economists, governments, and others design tax policies that optimize not only productivity and conservation, but that promote widespread, whole-country social equality. Studies have shown that…
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MIT researchers release Clevrer to advance visual reasoning and neurosymbolic AI

Researchers from Harvard University and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab have released Clevrer, a data set for evaluating AI models’ ability to recognize causal relationships and carry out reasoning. A paper sharing initial findings about the CoLlision Events for Video REpresentation and Reasoning (Clevrer) data set was published this week at the entirely digital International Conference of Representation…
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Companies equip cameras with AI to track social distancing and mask-wearing

(Reuters) — Stores and workplaces eager to avoid spreading the novel coronavirus are equipping existing security cameras with artificial intelligence software that can track compliance with health guidelines including social distancing and mask-wearing. Several companies told Reuters the software will be crucial to staying open as concerns about COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the…
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