Good AI in the wild

[burtabraham]

Thought I’d provide the Yin to the AI doomerites’ Yang, with a thread for positive uses of the tech. I’ll start with this:

Lung Conditions: New AI test set to transform diagnosis​

A rapid test harnessing the power of AI is set to transform the diagnosis of a lung condition that affects 3 million people in the UK. […]

…the handheld device called N-Tidal Diagnose will enable a patient to walk into their doctor's surgery and find out in as little as five minutes if their symptoms like breathlessness and a persistent cough are caused by COPD.

 

[burtabraham]

Exact Solution of the Frustrated Potts Model with Next-Nearest-Neighbor Interactions in One Dimension: An AI-Aided Discovery

I’ve no idea what this means, but apparently “The work is anticipated to fuel the research in one-dimensional frustrated magnets”, and if that’s not good news for one-dimensional frustrated magnets, then I don’t know what is.

 

[Cloo]

A friend who is an amazingly clever tech guy (and also hugely dyslexic interestingly) has been on cancer detection with AI for years and it does sound brilliant. Sadly he is very motivated as he lost his first wife to cancer when she was only 39.

 

[Superdupastupor]

In the last 40 years biochemists have eluicidadted the exact manner in which 150,000 proteins form, fold, and function


In the last 18 months a project using machine-learning led research has done the same for 250 000 000 different proteins

Without the human training set, furrowed brows, sweat, and striving for understanding how the main biological function, it couldn't do that

But through the years of research reams and reams of 'rules' gleaned by the human researchers give a machine learning task all the info it needs

 

[frogwoman]

I've been using ChatGPT for work and it's doing a better job of summarising and making sense of my own notes than I could ever do.