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Good morning, human brains. Welcome back to your daily munch of AI news.

Here’s what’s on the menu today:

• AI architects CPU faster than humans 🖥️

  Achieving early 90’s CPU performance in just five hours.

• Google's AI chatbot in hospitals 🏥

  Tentative results from trials at the Mayo Clinic.

• AI aid for brain tumor treatment 🧠

  Less time on the operating table for brain tumor patients.

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APPETIZER

An AI tool designs a CPU in 5 hours 🖥️

Chinese researchers created an AI that designs a working CPU in under five hours, 1,000 times faster than humans.

This breakthrough proves machines can create computer chips like humans, a step towards self-evolving machines.

The freaky part? It arrived von Neumann architecture on its own, without prior knowledge.

The CPU's performance is modest compared to modern computers, akin to a 1991 Intel 80486SX CPU.

Nonetheless, developing this AI approach could revolutionize the computer chip industry by drastically reducing the design cycle.

Our View: So… a robot designed the brain of another robot and it worked?

Oh my Skynet.

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MAIN COURSE

Google’s medical AI in hospitals 🏥

Google's new AI, Med-PaLM 2, has been trialed at the Mayo Clinic since April of this year.

Is there a doctor in the house?

Med-PaLM 2 is the medical upgrade of PaLM 2, and Google hopes it'll close the gap in places where doctors are scarce.

So, how’s it going?

Well, the real doctors found accuracy issues — just like all the other LLM’s. But it nailed reasoning and consensus answers.

Another forte: bedside manner. Since it was trained on specific medical demos, it should outperform other chatbots like ChatGPT when it comes to conversations about healthcare.

In the very near future, medical AI could offer care in countries with limited access to human doctors, resulting in better patient outcomes.

Literal life-saver.

But Med-PaLM 2 won’t be out of diapers, at least for a little while. Google's senior research director, Greg Corrado, admitted he wouldn’t trust it with his own family's health just yet.

Our take: a perfect example of how AI scales humans instead of replacing them. Doctors aren’t going anywhere, but more patients will get care that would have been impossible otherwise.

A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA

Harvard study unveils AI aid for faster brain tumor treatment 🧠 

Harvard Medical School has created an AI tool that decodes brain cancer's genome during surgery.

Gliomas, an umbrella term for common brain tumors, are a nightmare to operate on. For each glioma-type surgery, a pathologist analyzes the affected brain tissue — since each type of glioma needs a specific procedure.

But the only way to analyze the glioma? Gotta open that skull first.

A 10-15 minute analysis window is typical — all while the patient is open on the table.

Basically, an extreme version of ‘winging it’.

Enter CHARM; an AI tool glioma classification tool developed using 2,334 brain tumor samples.

No hard numbers yet, but the improvement in glioma analysis with the AI is already notable. That means less operating room time and better accuracy.

Dr. Dan Cahill of Massachusetts General Hospital offered praise, emphasizing its impressive accuracy, surpassing traditional methods for analyzing glioma molecular makeup.

Our take: anything that reduces skull-wide-open times must be the meta, right?

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YOUR DAILY MUNCH

Think Pieces

Don’t ban AI in schools, embrace it — an open letter from a 13-year-old student.

If AI can predict the weather, will it understand climate change? How forecasting with AI might work with our changing climate.

Startup News

Vellum raises $5M — taking prompt engineering into production.

Dashworks expands seed round to $5M — an internal knowledge tool to centralize company knowledge with a single API.

AI on the blockchain — Giza raises $3M to bring machine learning to smart contracts.

Research

Quantexa pledges over $250m in AI research funding — the UK AI company commits to funding until 2027.

Scientists at MIT develop AI for biology research — a super speedy AI system, named BioAutoMATED.

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