Nobel physics prize 2024 won by AI pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton

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1. Nobel physics prize 2024 won by AI pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton

U.S. scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discoveries and inventions in machine learning, which paved the way for artificial intelligence. The emerging technology has raised concerns about humankind being outsmarted and outcompeted by its own creation.

Hinton, a godfather of AI and former Google employee, acknowledged the unknown potential and limits of AI and said there was something unnerving about the unknown potential and limits of AI. The award comes with a prize sum of 11 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million).

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2. Meta announces expansion of its AI features to 21 additional countries

Meta has expanded its AI features to 21 countries, including Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Paraguay, Philippines, and the United Kingdom. The AI includes a chatbot for conversations and searches, as well as a Studio for generating images based on text inputs. Meta AI will also be available in the Middle East.

The company claims its AI is on track to become the most used assistant in the world with almost 500 million active users monthly. Meta AI can be accessed independently via web browser or through the company's apps, including Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram.

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3. Zoom's latest feature update focuses heavily on its AI assistant

Zoom's Zoomtopia 2024 feature drop focuses on integrating AI into its platform, particularly for Zoom Workplace and Zoom Business Services. AI Companion 2.0 is a persistent presence in Zoom Workplace, working with external apps like Gmail, Google Calendar, and Microsoft Office.

It helps workers find important points in messages, take notes, create post-call summaries, and compose emails. Zoom AI Studio allows users to customize the companion, and Zoom Workplace for Frontline, Healthcare, Clinicians, and Education offers industry-specific AI functions.

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4. SETI Institute Researchers Engage in World’s First Real-Time AI Search for Fast Radio Bursts

Scientists at the SETI Institute have applied AI to the real-time direct detection of faint radio signals from space, paving the way for accelerated computing and AI applications in radio astronomy. The SETI Institute, which operates the Allen Telescope Array, collaborates with Breakthrough Listen, another SETI research program, to collect and store data from radio telescopes.

The researchers used NVIDIA GPUs to accelerate algorithms that separate signals from background noise, leading to the development of NVIDIA Holoscan, a sensor processing platform for processing real Ntime data from scientific instruments.

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5. Tx-LLM: Supporting therapeutic development with large language models

Therapeutic drugs often fail clinical trials due to numerous steps and criteria. Machine learning can help predict these properties quickly and efficiently. Tx-LLM, a fine-tuned large language model, can predict properties of various entities relevant to therapeutic development.

Tx-LLM is trained on 66 drug discovery datasets, ranging from early-stage target gene identification to late-stage clinical trial approval. It achieved competitive performance with state-of-the-art models on 43 out of 66 tasks and exceeded them on 22. Tx-LLM can combine molecular information with textual information and transfer capabilities between tasks with diverse therapeutics.

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