Artificial Intelligence news

AlphaMissense’s predictions could help speed up research and diagnosis of rare disordersScientists at Google DeepMind have built an artificial intelligence program that can predict whether millions of genetic mutations are either harmless or likely to cause disease, in an effort to speed up research and the diagnosis of rare disorders.The program makes predictions about so-called missense mutations, where a single letter is misspelt in the DNA code. Such mutations are often harmless, but t

Alison Lomax, London chief of the video platform, says it is committed to embracing artificial intelligence – but ‘responsibly’Alison Lomax’s presence on the video streaming platform she runs is relatively scant compared with the YouTubers with whom she spends much of her time.But what clips exist succinctly chart the marketing tech revolution she’s been navigating: there’s a badly framed 12 minutes from 2014 of Lomax lecturing on the rise of influencers worki

Hampstead theatre, London
Lauren Gunderson’s smart play finds a software engineer creating a digital version of a sister who has disappearedWhile screenwriters strike, partly over the threat from artificial intelligence, playwrights are busy writing about AI. Lauren Gunderson’s Anthropology is the second world premiere in a week featuring pseudo-humanity – after Alan Ayckbourn’s Constant Companions – and the third such London play in six months, following Jordan Har