🧁 Lots of Applied AI

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• “Will AI replace me” among top google searches

• Humans strike back at “Go”

• AI outperforms grandmasters

• AI improves breast cancer outcomes

1/ Society is scared of AI

The launch of ChatGPT was the first time broader society got to see what AI is capable of. Most people are scared to get replaced by AI. Google searches for “AI will replace jobs” was an often googled search term over the past weeks

2/ Human beats AI in Go

Humans 1 - AI 1. In a surprise reversal, an amateur human player has beaten a top-ranked AI system at the board game Go. Kellin Pelrine exploited a previously unknown weakness in the system, that had been identified by another computer.

The weakness discovered in some of the most advanced Go-playing machines points to a fundamental flaw in the deep learning systems that underpin today's most advanced AI. The systems can only understand specific situations they have been exposed to in the past, and are unable to generalize in a way that humans find easy.

3/ AI better than grandmasters

4/ Engangered species & AI

A UK nonprofit uses artificial intelligence to detect threats to endangered species. With over 70 cameras worldwide, the system analyses footage in just four seconds, identifying species and alerting conservationists via email.

The long-term goal is to create a toolkit that supports conservationists with wildlife monitoring using satellite imagery and deep learning models that analyze audio.

5/ AI improves cancer survival chances

Big news! Scientists from the University of Waterloo in Ontario use AI-powered imaging tech to decide what treatment to prescribe. The tech looks at MRI scans to see if breast cancer patients could benefit from chemotherapy before surgery. The AI system checks the MRI data and predicts if a patient could benefit from neoadjuvant chemotherapy before surgery.

They tested the AI on about 253 patients who got chemotherapy before surgery. It was right over 87% of the time about which patients would benefit from chemo, compared to what the doctors said.