A tool called Funding the Frontier visualizes all the downstream impacts of funding — and predicts which studies will have the biggest societal impact. Scientific research offers many benefits to society, but how do you trace the impact of specific projects? It’s easy to track which papers result from a grant, but much harder to […]
Artificial Intelligence
The chatbots claiming to be Jesus: spreading gospel or heresy?
Jesus chatbots aren’t the only AI technologies seeping into religious practice. Some worshippers don’t agree with the use of them. The canonization of Carlo Acutis by Pope Leo XIV on 7 September was a sign of how the Catholic Church is increasingly embracing the digital world. Acutis, who died of leukaemia in 2006 at the […]
This Model Beats Docs at Predicting Sudden Cardiac Arrest
An artificial intelligence (AI) model has performed dramatically better than doctors using the latest clinical guidelines to predict the risk for sudden cardiac arrest in people with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Read more in Medscape.
Rage against machine learning driven by profit
Industry research funding is vastly eclipsing academia’s spend, but healthy development demands broad input. The current boom in artificial intelligence (AI) would probably not exist were it not for work that began in academia. Many of the techniques that are now being used on an everyday basis, such as machine learning and natural-language processing, are […]
How Nature readers are using ChatGPT
Eighty percent of respondents have used AI chatbots — and 57% say they use it for ‘creative fun’. Researchers are keen to experiment with using generative AI tools such as the advanced chatbot ChatGPT to help with their work, according to a survey of Nature readers. But they are also concerned about the potential for […]
AI technology could be used to monitor invaders in the Great Lakes
Invasive zebra and quagga mussels are firmly established in the Great Lakes, and efforts to control them have proved mostly fruitless. But environmental managers still want to know where they are, how many there are and what they are up to, so they can predict how the ecosystem will be affected and protect vital infrastructure. […]
Artificial Intelligence Identifies Potential New Antibiotics
Machine learning turbocharges the process of identifying molecules to test for bacteria-attacking properties. Many dangerous bacteria are evolving resistance to our existing antibiotics faster than we can develop new ones. But now researchers have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to dramatically speed up the search for new drugs — and found a promising one […]