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The Brave New World Of AI, From Shoe Design To Colonoscopies


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Hardly a day passes without a report of some new, startling application of artificial intelligence. Two recent articles in the journal Nature described its application to weather forecasting which, currently, is difficult and time-consuming, because meteorologists analyze individually weather variables such as temperature, precipitation, pressure, wind, humidity, and cloudiness. However, new AI applications can significantly speed up the process. 

The first article describes how a new AI model, Pangu-Weather, can predict worldwide weekly weather patterns much more rapidly than traditional forecasting methods, but with comparable accuracy. The second demonstrates how a deep-learning algorithm was able to predict extreme rainfall more accurately and more quickly than other methods.

A July 5 article in Technology Review magazine offered some examples of how AI is advancing various scientific disciplines:

Scientists at McMaster and MIT, for example, used an AI model to identify an antibiotic to combat a pathogen that the World Health Organization labeled one of the world’s most dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria for hospital patients. A Google DeepMind model can control plasma in nuclear fusion reactions, bringing us closer to a clean-energy revolution. Within health care, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has already cleared 523 devices that use AI — 75% of them for use in radiology.

Less momentous, but fascinating, was a recent article by Ethan Mollick, a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, which described the ability of the newest, “multimodal” version of chatbot GPT-4 to “see,” “hear,” and “understand” what is being presented to it. In an experiment in which the chatbot is asked to design a new, trendy women’s shoe, it offers several possible alternatives and then, when prompted, serially and skillfully refines the design. :snip:

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Technology s neither Good nor Bad. It Simple IS. I have to laugh when read/see politicians talk about Regulating this. Remember when The Printing Press came out? Rome wanted to Regulate/Control What was printed, Who could Read What, lest The Wrong Ideas Got Out. Index Librorum Prohibitorum. hung around till 1966. That worked out Real Well. 

XXI century is going to be a bumpy  ride! We have only Begun to see how that little Silicon Chip is going to change EVERYTHING! For better & worse.

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4 hours ago, Valin said:

 Remember when The Printing Press came out?

Wow! You really have been around a long time :P

  • Haha 1
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