In an effort to rein in illicit fishing, researchers have unveiled a new open-source AI model that can accurately identify what virtually all of the world’s seafaring vessels are doing, including whether a boat is potentially fishing illegally. Seattle-based Ai2 (the Allen Institute for AI) recently released a lightweight model named Atlantes to analyze more than five billion GPS signals a…
]]>Researchers studying cancer unveiled a new AI model that provides cellular-level mapping and visualizations of cancer cells, which scientists hope can shed light on how—and why—certain inter-cellular relationships triggers cancers to grow. BioTuring, a San Diego-based startup, announced an AI model that can quickly create detailed visualizations of cancerous tumors—at single-cell resolution.
]]>With as many as 800,000 forgotten oil and gas wells scattered across the US, researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), have developed an AI model capable of accurately locating, at scale, wells that may be leaking toxic chemicals and greenhouse gases, like methane, into the environment. The model is designed to identify many of the roughly 3.7M oil and gas wells dug in…
]]>Each year, the world recycles only around 13% of its two billion-plus tons of municipal waste. By 2050, the world’s annual municipal waste will reach 3.88B tons. But the global recycling industry is far from efficient. Annually, as much as $120B of potentially recoverable plastic—let alone paper or metals—ends up in landfills rather than within new products made with recycled materials.
]]>A robot commonly used and manually manipulated by surgeons for routine operations can now autonomously perform key surgical tasks as precisely as humans. Researchers at Johns Hopkins and Stanford Universities, revealed they have integrated a vision-language model (VLM)—trained on hours of surgical videos—with the widely-used da Vinci robotic surgical system. Once connected with the VLM…
]]>Prostate cancer researchers unveiled a new AI-powered model that can quickly analyze MRIs to accurately predict how prostate cancer tumors may develop and potentially metastasize over time. The technology uses a segmentation algorithm to quickly analyze MRIs of prostates and outline—in detail—the contours of any cancerous tumors. The model can then calculate the volume of the tumors it…
]]>A new cell-phone-sized device—which can be deployed in vast, remote areas—is using AI to identify and geolocate wildlife to help conservationists track endangered species, including wolves around Yellowstone National Park. The battery-powered devices—dubbed GrizCams—are designed by a small Montana startup, Grizzly Systems. Together with biologists, they’re deploying a constellation of the…
]]>Researchers at UCLA have developed a new AI model that can expertly analyze 3D medical images of diseases in a fraction of the time it would otherwise take a human clinical specialist. The deep-learning framework, named SLIViT (SLice Integration by Vision Transformer), analyzes images from different imagery modalities, including retinal scans, ultrasound videos, CTs, MRIs, and others…
]]>Some of Africa’s most resource-constrained farmers are gaining access to on-demand, AI-powered advice through a multimodal chatbot that gives detailed recommendations about how to increase yields or fight common pests and crop diseases. Since February, farmers in the East African nation of Malawi have had access to the chatbot, named UlangiziAI, through WhatsApp on mobile phones.
]]>Researchers at Washington State University (WSU) unveiled a new AI-guided 3D printing technique that can help physicians print intricate replicas of human organs. Surgeons can then use these organ models to practice before performing the actual surgery, which gives doctors more tools to improve surgical results. The AI algorithm was trained on images and key attributes of human kidneys and…
]]>Machine Learning algorithms are beginning to revolutionize modern agriculture. Enabling farmers to combat pests and diseases in real time, the technology is improving crop production and profits, while reducing waste, greenhouse gas emissions, and pesticide use. Around 6% of the world’s CO2 emissions come from farming. And every year, up to 40% of crops are lost due to pests and disease.
]]>Researchers using AI are mining the DNA of long-extinct species like woolly mammoths and giant sloths, looking for ancient genomic secrets to help fight today’s most infectious pathogens. Every year, more than 1.25M people worldwide die from infections immune to drugs like antibiotics, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). By 2050, that number could rise to 10M people. And…
]]>Maritime startup Orca AI is pioneering safety at sea with its AI-powered navigation system, which provides real-time video processing to help crews make data-driven decisions in congested waters and low-visibility conditions. Every year, thousands of massive 100-million-pound vessels, ferrying $14T worth of goods, cross the world’s oceans and waterways, fighting to keep to tight deadlines.
]]>Scientists have enabled a stroke survivor, who is unable to speak, to communicate in both Spanish and English by training a neuroprosthesis implant to decode his bilingual brain activity. The research, published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, comes from the lab of University of California, San Francisco professor Dr. Edward Chang. It builds on his groundbreaking work from 2021 with the…
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