New ‘Plug-and-Play’ AI Diagnoses 18 Cancer Types From Just a Few Tissue Slides
A pathology AI system developed at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology can recognize 18 different cancer types...
Year: 2026
AI Sepsis Alert Tool Built at Duke Proves It Works Just as Well at Other Hospitals
An artificial intelligence model developed at Duke Health to flag sepsis risk in emergency department patients has held up when...
Thinking Ahead: DeepMind’s New Way to Teach Models Foresight
DeepMind has published research on a training method it calls prospective credit assignment, designed to teach AI models to anticipate...
Refill by Robot: Utah’s AI Prescription Program Splits Doctors
A quiet pilot in Utah has become the sharpest test yet of how much medicine we are willing to hand...
Abstraction: The Ladder From Instances to Ideas
From many particular things we form a single idea that captures what they share and ignores the rest. This power...
Local Versus Global Minima
A search for the lowest point can end in a valley that is low but not lowest. Trapped in a...
Gradient Descent: Learning by Following the Slope
To find the bottom of a valley in fog, take small steps downhill. This simple rule, applied to the error...
Spurious Correlation: Patterns in Noise
Search enough data and you will find relationships that mean nothing. Two unrelated quantities can move together by chance, and...
The Law of Large Numbers
Toss a fair coin a few times and the results are erratic; toss it many times and the fraction of...
Randomness Versus Determinism
Is the world's apparent chance real, or merely hidden order we cannot trace? The question divides deterministic systems that only...
