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Researchers Are Using AI to Find New Alzheimer’s Risk Factors
Ray Choi
March 07, 2024
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👓️ Researchers Are Using AI to Find New Alzheimer’s Risk Factors
🧠 Nvidia GEAR research group created to develop AI robots
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4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. [John 15:4-5, ESV]
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Brain experts have a pretty good handle on some of the major risk factors that contribute to Alzheimer’s—from a person's genes to their physical activity levels, how much formal education they've received, and how socially engaged they are.
But one promise of AI in medicine is that it can spot less obvious links that humans can't always see. Could AI help uncover conditions linked to Alzheimer's that have so far been overlooked?
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Nvidia has set up an interesting new research group called GEAR. A clue to the research group’s goals is provided by expanding the GEAR acronym - Generalist Embodied Agent Research. GEAR has basically been set up so that Nvidia can further advance and build capable AI-based entities that can operate with skill in both the virtual and physical worlds – we are, therefore, talking about things like intelligent NPCs and robots, respectively.
The GEAR group at Nvidia has been co-founded by Jim Fan and Yuke Zhu, who have collaborated on several projects previously. Introducing the new research group this weekend, Fan sketched out his vision concerning GEAR. “We believe in a future where every machine that moves will be autonomous, and robots and simulated agents will be as ubiquitous as iPhones,” wrote the newly appointed Research Manager and Lead of Embodied AI (GEAR Group) at Nvidia. “We are building the Foundation Agent — a generally capable AI that learns to act skillfully in many worlds, virtual and real.”
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