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Karius raises $165 million to identify infectious diseases with AI

February 24, 2020
Approximately 9% of the U.S. population has been diagnosed with an infectious disease. Worldwide, these diseases are the second-leading cause of death after heart disease, and they’re responsible for more deaths annually than cancer. Mickey Kertesz and Tim Blauwkamp — who worked together at Moleculo, a startup spun out of Stanford that focused on commercializing technology for generating long…
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AI is not just another technology project

February 23, 2020
AI, unlike any other initiative is a business transformation enabler and not another technology system implementation that business users need to be trained on. Traditionally, businesses choose either the classic waterfall approach of linear tasks, or the agile approach…
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AI discovers antibiotic that kills even highly resistant bacteria

February 23, 2020
The use of AI to discover medicine appears to be paying off. MIT scientists have revealed that their AI discovered an antibiotic compound, halicin (named after 2001‘s HAL 9000), that can not only kill many forms of resistant bacteria but do so in a novel way. Where many antibiotics are slight spins on existing medicine, halicin wipes out bacteria by wrecking their ability to maintain…
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Spin Master's new NinjaBots are cute little killers

February 22, 2020
Do you remember the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon from the ’80s? Shredder’s minions were all featureless humanoid robots, which our heroes could could slice and dice without guilt. At this year’s Toy Fair, Spin Master’s new product answers…
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AI Weekly: Why a slow movement for machine learning could be a good thing

February 21, 2020
In 2019, the number of published papers related to AI and machine learning was nearly 25,000 in the U.S. alone, up from roughly 10,000 in 2015. And NeurIPS 2019, one of the world’s largest machine learning and computational neuroscience conferences, featured close to 2,000 accepted papers from thousands of attendees. There’s no question that the momentum reflects an uptick in publicity and…
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Finnish city Espoo pioneers civic AI with education and explainability

February 20, 2020
While civic leaders believe AI could help reinvent government services, they are also aware of citizens’ profound privacy concerns. To navigate this challenge, the Finnish city of Espoo is conducting experiments that mix consultations, transparency, and limited use cases to demonstrate the potential of civic AI. Espoo has already conducted AI trials that initially required overcoming technical…
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