Predicting Genetic diseases with AI 🔬

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📰 News: Google upgrades Bard, Predicting Genetic diseases

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Google updates Bard AI chatbot

Google released a major update to improve its AI chatbot, Bard, adding three key features -

• Integration with Google Apps - The chatbot can access your emails, documents and other google services like youtube, Flights and hotels to provide personalized responses

• Fact-Checking AI responses - A “Google it” feature evaluates responses of AI chatbot against information on the web to make sure you have the correct data points.

• Improved user collaboration - You could easily share prompts and build upon shared conversations.

In an interesting product strategy, Google is prioritizing expanding Bard’s capabilities to interact with Google services, instead of improving the native apps like the broken search in gmail!

Predicting Genetic Diseases with AI

Google’s AI-research unit, DeepMind, built a new AI model to predict which DNA variations in our genomes are likely to cause a disease, helping with speedy diagnosis of rare disorders.

DNA mutations can lead to complex diseases and disorders that are hard to diagnose. The new AI model called AlphaMissense can predict the missense DNA varients with 90% accuracy!

Bio technology and Genomics is one of the biggest gainers of the AI revolution by enabling researchers find new ways to diagnose and invent cures. It’s also helping Big-Tech including Google and Microsoft break into the lucrative Bio-tech industry.

Cure, Prevent and Manage all human diseases

Facebook Co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s non-profit foundation made a bold claim to “Cure, Prevent and Manage all diseases” by the end of 21st century.

The non-profit plans to build a "virtual cell modeling system”, powered by AI-models running on one of the most powerful computing systems in the world.

The AI models would be capable of simulating human cells and its interactions with bio-chemicals. For instance, the AI models could predict how an immune cell responds to an infection or to a new medication.

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 Today in Tech 

• Managing Wildfires: How a startup is helping Canada fight record wildfires with a combination of AI and intuition (link)

• Labeling AI-Content: TikTok debuts new tools and technology to label AI content (link)

• AI in Education: Universities are embracing ChatGPT in classrooms (link)

• Financial AI: Morgan Stanley releases a new financial advisor chatbot powered by generative AI(link)

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