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Researchers Develop Autonomous Electrochemistry Robot

Researchers have developed an automated laboratory robot to run complex electrochemical experiments and analyze data, reducing the effort and time needed for electrochemical studies.
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Collective Intelligence Can Help Reduce Medical Misdiagnoses

Knowledge engineering methods could reduce the number of misdiagnoses by combining the diagnoses of multiple clinicians, reports new research.
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Viruses Can Latch Onto One Another

"MiniFlayer" is the first known instance of a satellite virus that does not possess a gene enabling it to access its host's DNA. To do this, it requires help from "MindFlayer", which it attaches to.
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"Nonsense" Prompts Trick AIs Into Producing NSFW Images

A new test of popular AI image generators shows that while they're supposed to make only G-rated pictures, they can be hacked to create content that's not suitable for work.
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How Can We Teach AI To Forget?

With the AI summit well underway, researchers are keen to raise the very real problem associated with the technology – teaching it how to forget.
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Genome Assembly Accelerated by Hardware Designed for AI

A hardware accelerator designed for AI has also been shown to speed up the alignment of protein and DNA for genome assembly, making the process 10 times faster than current methods.
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Nanowire Neural Network Learns Just Like the Human Brain

Artificial neural networks could provide a solution to many modern problems including medical diagnosis, face identification systems and data mining. However, typical physical neural networks require a large amount of data to be stored in memory.
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AI Helps To Create Candidate Gastric Acid Inhibitor

Researchers have created and improved AI systems to help synthesize a gastric acid inhibitor with a better binding affinity than existing drugs.
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AI Models Show Similar Activity Patterns as the Mammalian Brain

Two studies find “self-supervised” models, which learn about their environment from unlabeled data, can show activity patterns similar to those of the mammalian brain.
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We All Move Like Electric Fish

Johns Hopkins scientists are the first to demonstrate that a wide range of organisms, even microbes, perform the same pattern of movements in order to sense their surroundings.
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