Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Prof. Ami Moyal, President of Afeka College of Engineering – Interview Series
Prof. Ami Moyal is the President of Afeka College of Engineering and the newly elected Chairman of the Israeli Council for Higher Education’s Planning & Budgeting Committee. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Ben-Gurion University and is an expert in automatic speech recognition. Before becoming Afeka’s President in 2014, he founded…
A glimpse of the next generation of AlphaFold
Research Published 31 October 2023 Authors Google DeepMind AlphaFold team and Isomorphic Labs team Progress update: Our latest AlphaFold model shows significantly improved accuracy and expands coverage beyond proteins to other biological molecules, including ligands Since its release in 2020, AlphaFold has revolutionized how proteins and their interactions are understood. Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs…
At the core of problem-solving
As director of the MIT BioMicro Center (BMC), Stuart Levine ’97 wholeheartedly embraces the variety of challenges he tackles each day. One of over 50 core facilities providing shared resources across the Institute, the BMC supplies integrated high-throughput genomics, single-cell and spatial transcriptomic analysis, bioinformatics support, and data management to researchers across MIT. The BioMicro…
TxAgent: An AI Agent that Delivers Evidence-Grounded Treatment Recommendations by Combining Multi-Step Reasoning with Real-Time Biomedical Tool Integration
Precision therapy has emerged as a critical approach in healthcare, tailoring treatments to individual patient profiles to optimise outcomes while reducing risks. However, determining the appropriate medication involves a complex analysis of numerous factors: patient characteristics, comorbidities, potential drug interactions, contraindications, current clinical guidelines, drug mechanisms, and disease biology. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have…
Botpress Review: This AI Chatbot Builder Is Seriously Smart
Have you ever felt like you’re drowning in customer inquiries and repetitive tasks, or just wish you had an assistant to handle conversations for you? Imagine having a chatbot that doesn’t just respond but actually understands, learns, and improves over time, without you needing to be a coding expert. That’s where Botpress comes in. Botpress…
GraphCast: AI model for faster and more accurate global weather forecasting
Research Published 14 November 2023 Authors Remi Lam on behalf of the GraphCast team Our state-of-the-art model delivers 10-day weather predictions at unprecedented accuracy in under one minute The weather affects us all, in ways big and small. It can dictate how we dress in the morning, provide us with green energy and, in the…
AI tool generates high-quality images faster than state-of-the-art approaches
The ability to generate high-quality images quickly is crucial for producing realistic simulated environments that can be used to train self-driving cars to avoid unpredictable hazards, making them safer on real streets. But the generative artificial intelligence techniques increasingly being used to produce such images have drawbacks. One popular type of model, called a diffusion…
A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Semantic Search Engine with Sentence Transformers, FAISS, and all-MiniLM-L6-v2
Semantic search goes beyond traditional keyword matching by understanding the contextual meaning of search queries. Instead of simply matching exact words, semantic search systems capture the intent and contextual definition of the query and return relevant results even when they don’t contain the same keywords. In this tutorial, we’ll implement a semantic search system using…
Joseph Mossel, Co-Founder & CEO of Ibex Medical Analytics – Interview Series
Joseph Mossel is the CEO of Ibex Medical Analytics. His career in the tech industry spans more than 20 years, starting off in software development and product management followed with leadership positions in startups, large multinational corporations and non-profits. Joseph has led products from inception all the way to maturity as multi-million-dollar businesses. He holds…
Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning
Research Published 29 November 2023 Authors Amil Merchant and Ekin Dogus Cubuk AI tool GNoME finds 2.2 million new crystals, including 380,000 stable materials that could power future technologies Modern technologies from computer chips and batteries to solar panels rely on inorganic crystals. To enable new technologies, crystals must be stable otherwise they can decompose,…