AI already can predict the structure of proteins, which defines their function. To do that, bots were trained on two key data sets: the structure of the DNA that underlies the genes that make proteins and the 3D structures of known proteins.
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
They want your money. Your life on a meter. And they want to comprehensively know and control you, and profit by your data, including anything you produce.
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AI TAKES A FOOTHOLD IN HOLLYWOOD
It’s not just movie and television actors and writers who are worried about losing their jobs to AI.
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MICROBES BREAK DOWN “FOREVER” PFAS CHEMICALS
In our most recent issue, we reported on a new process that uses catalysts and mild heat to break apart perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFAS), also called “forever” chemicals because their molecular bonds between carbon and fluorine atoms are fiendishly difficult to shatter.
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CELEBRITY WINDFALL: PAID MILLIONS SO AI CAN USE THEIR VOICES
Meta Platforms Inc. is reportedly negotiating seven-figure deals with British movie icon Dame Judi Dench, rapper and comedian Awkwafina, and actor-writer Keegan-Michael Key for the use of their voices in a new suite of AI tools that the company wants to show off at Meta Connect 2024, its annual gathering next month.
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KEY OPENAI FOUNDERS LEAVE THE COMPANY
OpenAI co-founder John Schulman announced on X last week that he’s leaving the company to join Anthropic, a younger and fast-rising competitor.
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NEW COMPOUND REGENERATES CARTILAGE IN LARGE MAMMALS’ JOINTS
Athletes, older adults, and active people in general know the problem: sooner or later, the cartilage in your knee wears out, bone rubs painfully on bone, and you think about trading it in for a plastic one.
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STUDY: YES, REMOTE WORK DOES HAMPER INNOVATION
CEOs have been right all along, according to a new study by economists at the University of Chicago and the University of Essex: working from home stifles innovation.
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THERE IS SOMETHING ROTTEN IN WASHINGTON
One thing you can say about the Administration of President Joe Biden is that nearly every week there is something new and exciting to discuss.
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SOFTBANK FOUNDER: SUPER AI WILL ARRIVE BY 2035
Artificial superintelligence, an AI with abilities beyond human understanding, will be here within 10 years, Masayoshi Son, founder and CEO of Softbank, an influential, multi-billion-dollar Japanese private equity venture fund, said in June.