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Generative AI design for building structures

GenAI has emerged as a powerful tool for learning and creatively using existing data to generate new design ideas. Learning from past experiences, this technique can analyze complex structural drawings, combine requirement texts, integrate mechanical and empirical knowledge, and create fresh designs.

January 20, 2025
Generative AI design for building structures
Paralysed man flies virtual drone using brain implant

Device that links neural signals to fine movements provides unprecedented control over speed and direction in a video-game obstacle course.

January 20, 2025
Paralysed man flies virtual drone using brain implant
MatterGen: A new paradigm of materials design with generative AI

MatterGen, a generative AI tool that tackles materials discovery from a different angle. Instead of screening the candidates…It can generate materials with desired chemistry, mechanical, electronic, or magnetic properties, as well as combinations of different constraints.

January 16, 2025
MatterGen: A new paradigm of materials design with generative AI
AI-designed proteins tackle century-old problem — making snake antivenoms

Machine learning has supercharged the field of computational protein design.

January 15, 2025
AI-designed proteins tackle century-old problem — making snake antivenoms
AI-designed antivenoms could help treat lethal snakebites

Proteins made using machine learning successfully bind snake toxins — plus, Earth’s temperature breaks a significant climate threshold for the first time.

January 15, 2025
AI-designed antivenoms could help treat lethal snakebites
NVIDIA Introduces BioNeMo Blueprint to Revolutionize Protein Binder Design

The BioNeMo Blueprint...leverages generative AI to intelligently navigate the immense search space, guiding researchers towards stable and structurally constrained protein binders. This significantly reduces the number of iterations and ...speeds up the design-to-discovery cycle but also reduces the need for costly and labor-intensive laboratory work.

January 14, 2025
NVIDIA Introduces BioNeMo Blueprint to Revolutionize Protein Binder Design
How should we test AI for human-level intelligence? OpenAI’s o3 electrifies quest

As AI systems improve, it is becoming harder and harder to develop tests that highlight a difference between human and AI capabilities...“You’ll know AGI is here when the exercise of creating tasks that are easy for regular humans but hard for AI becomes simply impossible.”

January 14, 2025
How should we test AI for human-level intelligence? OpenAI’s o3 electrifies quest
From chalkboards to chatbots: Transforming learning in Nigeria, one prompt at a time

The learning improvements were striking—about 0.3 standard deviations. To put this into perspective, this is equivalent to nearly two years of typical learning in just six weeks.

January 9, 2025
From chalkboards to chatbots: Transforming learning in Nigeria, one prompt at a time
Scientists trained AI to predict gene activity, a potentially powerful tool

While ChatGPT learned the grammar of language, GET has learned underlying rules governing genes: how they are turned on or off like a light switch, or dialed up or down like a volume control. This complex process, known as gene expression, determines which proteins we make and whether we make them in the correct amounts

January 9, 2025
Scientists trained AI to predict gene activity, a potentially powerful tool
Omi is another AI companion wearable — but this one’s trying to read your mind

The device reads.. brain waves and answered … question without any prompting or switching.

January 9, 2025
Omi is another AI companion wearable — but this one’s trying to read your mind