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  • 🧪 Research highlights: Size Matters: AI Unlocks the Power of Nanoparticles in Tumor-Fighting Treatments

  • 🚨 Industry news: Google's AI Gets Down to Business

  • ⚖️ Policy and regulation: Stricter Measures to Rein in AI's Brave New World

  • 🌐 AI and society: The Great AI Debate: Are Symbols the Key to Unlocking Intelligence?

  • 🧰 Tool of the day: Effortless Writing, Making Every Day Feel Like Friday

  • 🧠 Let’s get smart with AI: Backpropagation: AI's Time-Traveling Trick for Better Learning

🧫 Size Matters: AI Unlocks the Power of Nanoparticles in Tumor-Fighting Treatments

An article in Nature Nanotechnology reports that artificial intelligence (AI) can help nanoparticles enter solid tumors more effectively.

AI was used to analyze the vascular permeability of different tumor types, which allowed for the rational design of protein nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems.

This study provides insight into nanoparticle accumulation in tumors using AI-assisted methods to analyze vast quantities of microscopic data and characterize the vascular permeability of various tumor tissues.

The study found that modifying ferritin-nanocages with a pH-responsive peptide domain and an albumin-binding domain improved chemotherapy drug delivery to tumors with low permeability.

However, the strategy still relies on obtaining relevant cancer biopsies for tumor vessel characterization, and further studies are needed to bridge the gap between preclinical research and clinical translation.

What does this mean? The research above is necessary because it demonstrates how AI can enhance nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems, potentially improving cancer treatments by enabling more effective targeting of solid tumors.

🤝🏽 Google's AI Gets Down to Business

Google's cloud division is partnering with companies such as Deutsche Bank, Uber, and a unit of Victoria's Secret to test its generative AI technology, which produces human-like prose or content.

Clients use AI for various purposes, including customer service chatbots and handling drive-thru orders at fast-food restaurants.

Google Cloud's recent operating profit and the interest in its AI technology could help it close the gap with larger competitors, Amazon and Microsoft.

The company is also working on AI projects with Deutsche Bank to automate tasks, lower call center costs, and potentially generate research using economic data and market reports.

🌍 Stricter Measures to Rein in AI's Brave New World

After approving a more stringent legislative draft, European lawmakers have moved closer to enacting new rules governing AI tools such as ChatGPT.

The EU's AI Act, the world's first comprehensive legislation governing AI technology, aims to regulate facial recognition, biometric surveillance, and other AI applications.

After two years of negotiations, the bill is set to move to the next stage, with lawmakers finalizing details with the European Commission and member states.

The proposals classify AI tools according to risk levels and impose different obligations on governments and companies.

The bill will be put to a plenary vote of the European Parliament in June before final terms are agreed upon.

🌐 The Great AI Debate: Are Symbols the Key to Unlocking Intelligence?

This article discusses the debate surrounding deep learning (DL) neural networks and their ability to perform symbolic reasoning, a critical aspect of human intelligence.

While critics argue that DL has reached its limit and can't progress without hard-coded symbolic reasoning, many researchers believe that DL is already engaging in symbolic reasoning and will continue improving.

The discussion has significant implications for our understanding of human intelligence and pursuing human-level artificial intelligence.

✍🏻 Effortless Writing, Making Every Day Feel Like Friday

Friday is a writing application designed to make article creation more manageable and efficient. It employs artificial intelligence to assist authors in coming up with ideas, improving the quality of their writing, and increasing output. Users can create blogs, articles, and even brief advertising using Friday.

Learn more about the tool here.

⌛ Backpropagation: AI's Time-Traveling Trick for Better Learning

Backpropagation, short for "backward propagation of errors," is a widely used optimization algorithm in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, specifically in training deep learning neural networks. It is a supervised learning method that minimizes the error between the predicted and actual outputs by adjusting the weights of the connections between neurons in the network.

—Terah Lyons, founding executive director, Partnership on AI

The problem that needs to be addressed is that the government, itself, needs to get a better handle on how technology systems interact with the citizenry. Secondarily, there needs to be more cross-talk between industry, civil society, and the academic organizations working to advance these technologies and the government institutions that will be representing them.

—Tobias Lütke

If you believe something needs to exist, if it's something you want to use yourself, don't let anyone ever stop you from doing it.

r/Futurology, u/StartledWatermelon

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  • ⏳ AI Time Machine™ - has several valuable features, including the ability to upload photos of yourself, travel through different eras, exchange avatars with others, and utilize avatars as profile pictures.

  • 📝 Beb.ai - is an artificial intelligence technology created to offer brands original content.

  • 🙍‍♂️ PictoDream - can quickly and easily realize your ideas, whether you need an image of a person in a particular context or style.

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