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AI and Machine Learning

Chinese scientists make ‘impossible’ AI breakthrough in drug research (3 minute read)Chinese scientists say they have achieved “the impossible”: developing an AI that can predict the structural changes of proteins, a task so complex it is thought by many biologists – including China’s “goddess scientist” Yan Ning – to be beyond the capabilities of machine learning. The breakthrough could speed up the preclinical drug development process, according to the researchers, led by Professor Li Ziqing with Westlake University’s school of engineering.

This Copyright Lawsuit Could Shape the Future of Generative AI (4 minute read)The tech industry might be reeling from a wave of layoffs, a dramatic crypto-crash, and ongoing turmoil at Twitter, but despite those clouds some investors and entrepreneurs are already eyeing a new boom—built on artificial intelligence that can generate coherent text, captivating images, and functional computer code. But that new frontier has a looming cloud of its own.

Artificial intelligence helps Brazilian breeders select desired traits of native fish (3 minute read)If you look at a net full of Pacus, you cannot distinguish with the naked eye which individuals will have descendants with higher filet yield or faster weight gain. Their growth can be monitored with a tape measure, and they can be weighed on a scale. The data can be tabulated and compared. But to breed an entire population with the right characteristics, some 2,000 fish per generation must be measured and weighed, and the task can take days. In Brazil, researchers have solved this problem by developing software that uses artificial intelligence to make accurate measurements in real time.

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Business

Implementing AI during a worldwide talent shortage (9 minute read)C-suite demands for the proliferation of AI throughout the enterprise are often complicated by the lack of available talent and the requisite skills to endeavor on such deployments. Budget is rarely the limiting factor — especially for larger organizations. What’s missing is the people with the knowledge and hands-on skills to test and institute AI throughout an organization.

6 investors discuss why AI is more than just a buzzword in biotech (8 minute read)As ChatGPT has so aptly demonstrated, AI is now truly entering the mainstream consciousness. That’s why we weren’t very surprised when a slew of investors told us they rarely see a biotech startup that doesn’t incorporate AI in some form or other these days. “Most of the companies we have seen have an AI component to support the discovery or development processes,” Francisco Dopazo, a general partner at Humboldt Fund told TechCrunch recently.

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Misc

Awesome ChatGPT Prompts (4 minute read)The ChatGPT model is a large language model trained by OpenAI that is capable of generating human-like text. By providing it with a prompt, it can generate responses that continue the conversation or expand on the given prompt. In this repository, you will find a variety of prompts that can be used with ChatGPT.

Google vs. ChatGPT: Here’s what happened when I swapped services for a day (8 minute read)You may have heard the recent buzz around ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot that was released to the public at the end of November. I’ve read about people using the service to write their school essays and I was curious as to how it could help me in my daily life. This got me wondering -- is ChatGPT smart enough to change how we find information online? Could it someday replace Google and other search engines? Some Google employees are certainly worried about the possibility, At a company all-hands last week, CNBC’s Jen Elias reported, employees recently asked execs if an AI-chatbot like ChatGPT was a “missed opportunity” for the company.

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