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Google DeepMind leaders share Nobel Prize in chemistry for protein prediction AI  

Hassabis and Jumper created AlphaFold, which in 2020 solved a problem scientists have been wrestling with for decades: predicting the three-dimensional structure of a protein from a sequence of amino acids. The... Read more »

The Download: another Nobel Prize for AI, and Adobe’s anti-scraping tool

Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis has won a joint Nobel Prize for Chemistry for using artificial intelligence to predict the structures of proteins. Hassabis shares half the prize with John M. Jumper,... Read more »

Google DeepMind wins joint Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein prediction AI  

Hassabis and Jumper created AlphaFold, an AI tool that in 2020 solved a problem scientists have been wrestling with for decades: predicting the three-dimensional structure of a protein from a sequence of... Read more »

Adobe wants to make it easier for artists to blacklist their work from AI scraping

Content credentials are based on C2PA, an internet protocol that uses cryptography to securely label images, video, and audio with information clarifying where they came from—the 21st-century equivalent of an artist’s signature. ... Read more »

Geoffrey Hinton, AI pioneer and figurehead of doomerism, wins Nobel Prize

Hinton shares the award with fellow computer scientist John Hopfield, who invented a type of pattern-matching neural network that could store and reconstruct data. Hinton built on this technology, known as a... Read more »

The Download: Geoffrey Hinton’s Nobel Prize, and multimodal AI

Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist whose pioneering work on deep learning in the 1980s and 90s underpins all of the most powerful AI models in the world today, has been awarded the... Read more »

Geoffrey Hinton just won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on machine learning

Hinton shares the award with fellow computer scientist John Hopfield, who invented a type of pattern-matching neural network that could store and reconstruct data. Hinton built on this technology, known as Hopfield... Read more »

Why artificial intelligence and clean energy need each other

AI’s power density requirements similarly necessitate a new set of electricity infrastructure enhancements—like advanced conductors for transmission lines that can move up to 10 times as much power through much smaller areas,... Read more »

Forget chat. AI that can hear, see and click is already here

Exhibit A: Google’s NotebookLM. NotebookLM is a research tool the company launched with little fanfare a year ago. A few weeks ago, Google added an AI podcasting tool called Audio Overview to... Read more »

The Download: how to find new music online, and climate friendly food

Since the heyday of radio, records, cassette tapes, and MP3 players, the branding of sound has evolved from broad genres like rock and hip-hop to “paranormal dark cabaret afternoon” and “synth space,”... Read more »