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tl;dr: this AI sums up research papers in a sentence
Search engine’s tool for summarizing studies promises easier skim-reading.
- Jeffrey M. Perkel
- & Richard Van Noorden
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Outlook |
Artificial intelligence is improving the detection of lung cancer
Machine learning systems for early detection could save lives.
- Elizabeth Svoboda
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News Feature |
The ethical questions that haunt facial-recognition research
Journals and researchers are under fire for controversial studies using this technology. And a Nature survey reveals that many researchers in this field think there is a problem.
- Richard Van Noorden
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Is facial recognition too biased to be let loose?
The technology is improving — but the bigger issue is how it’s used.
- Davide Castelvecchi
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Nature Podcast |
The troubling rise of facial recognition technology
The grave concerns over ethical and societal impacts of inescapable facial-recognition technology.
- Benjamin Thompson
- & Richard Van Noorden
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A reference map of potential determinants for the human serum metabolome
The levels of 1,251 metabolites are measured in 475 phenotyped individuals, and machine-learning algorithms reveal that diet and the microbiome are the determinants with the strongest predictive power for the levels of these metabolites.
- Noam Bar
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- & Eran Segal
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Host variables confound gut microbiota studies of human disease
The authors use a machine-learning approach to uncover confounding variables in studies that seek to establish an association between the gut microbiota and human disease.
- Ivan Vujkovic-Cvijin
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Scailyte: simplifying difficult diagnoses
A firm that combines single-cell analysis and neural networks to identify biomarkers for rare diseases has made it on to the shortlist for The Spinoff Prize.
- Eric Bender
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How coronavirus dashed Ethiopia’s dream of hosting Africa’s first major AI conference
A meeting planned for Addis Ababa in April was meant to diversify artificial-intelligence conferences, but the push for greater participation continues.
- Davide Castelvecchi
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Animal source of the coronavirus continues to elude scientists
Computational models, cell studies and animal experiments are being used to pinpoint the viral host that kicked off the pandemic.
- Smriti Mallapaty
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World View |
Machine learning can help get COVID-19 aid to those who need it most
With pandemic stakes so immediate and consequential, coordinate to share lessons and minimize risks.
- Joshua Blumenstock
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Artificial intelligence decodes the facial expressions of mice
Neuroscientists also uncover neural circuitry whose activity correlates with particular emotions.
- Alison Abbott
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Article |
Microbiome analyses of blood and tissues suggest cancer diagnostic approach
Microbial nucleic acids are detected in samples of tissues and blood from more than 10,000 patients with cancer, and machine learning is used to show that these can be used to discriminate between and among different types of cancer, suggesting a new microbiome-based diagnostic approach.
- Gregory D. Poore
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- & Rob Knight
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Nature Podcast |
Podcast: Improving battery charging, and harnessing energy from the air
Listen to the latest science news, with Nick Howe and Benjamin Thompson.
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Supercomputer scours fossil record for Earth’s hidden extinctions
Palaeontologists have charted 300 million years of Earth’s history in breathtaking detail.
- Ewen Callaway
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Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning
AlphaFold predicts the distances between pairs of residues, is used to construct potentials of mean force that accurately describe the shape of a protein and can be optimized with gradient descent to predict protein structures.
- Andrew W. Senior
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- & Demis Hassabis
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News Q&A |
This AI researcher is trying to ward off a reproducibility crisis
Joelle Pineau is leading an effort to encourage artificial-intelligence researchers to open up their code.
- Elizabeth Gibney
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Nature Video |
DeepMind’s new AI masters the online game StarCraft II
'AlphaStar' beat human opponents to reach the top 200 players in Europe.
- Thom Hoffman
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Article |
Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale
High-resolution spatial maps of the global abundance of soil nematodes and the composition of functional groups show that soil nematodes are found in higher abundances in sub-Arctic regions, than in temperate or tropical regions.
- Johan van den Hoogen
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Letter |
Dermatologist-level classification of skin cancer with deep neural networks
An artificial intelligence trained to classify images of skin lesions as benign lesions or malignant skin cancers achieves the accuracy of board-certified dermatologists.
- Andre Esteva
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Reach and grasp by people with tetraplegia using a neurally controlled robotic arm
Two people with long-standing tetraplegia use neural interface system-based control of a robotic arm to perform three-dimensional reach and grasp movements.
- Leigh R. Hochberg
- , Daniel Bacher
- & John P. Donoghue