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AI tidies up Wikipedia’s references — and boosts reliability
A neural network can identify references that are unlikely to support an article’s claims, and scour the web for better sources.
- Chris Stokel-Walker
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Living guidelines for generative AI — why scientists must oversee its use
Establish an independent scientific body to test and certify generative artificial intelligence, before the technology damages science and public trust.
- Claudi L. Bockting
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- & Johan Bollen
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Career Feature |
How ChatGPT is transforming the postdoc experience
Around one in three respondents to Nature’s global postdoc survey are using AI chatbots to help to refine text, generate or edit code, wrangle the literature in their field and more.
- Linda Nordling
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How AlphaFold and other AI tools could help us prepare for the next pandemic
Researchers are using machine-learning programs to predict the evolution of viruses and design vaccines.
- Ewen Callaway
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Editorial |
AI’s potential to accelerate drug discovery needs a reality check
Companies say the technology will contribute to faster drug development. Independent verification and clinical trials will determine whether this claim holds up.
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How ChatGPT and other AI tools could disrupt scientific publishing
A world of AI-assisted writing and reviewing might transform the nature of the scientific paper.
- Gemma Conroy
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Career Guide |
How to spice up your bioinformatics skill set with AI
Incorporating machine-learning tools into data analysis can accelerate discovery and free up valuable time.
- Rachael Pells
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Research Briefing |
Deep learning shows how global warming affects daily rainfall
An artificial-intelligence method called deep learning has been used to detect signals of human-induced climate change in daily precipitation data. The results indicate that global warming has increased day-to-day rainfall variability in tropical and mid-latitude regions over the past 40 years.
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AI predicts how many earthquake aftershocks will strike — and their strength
Models trained on large data sets of seismic events can estimate the number of aftershocks better than conventional models do.
- Alexandra Witze
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Can AI predict who will win a Nobel Prize?
With a few modifications, ChatGPT-like models could enhance the art of identifying future laureates.
- Gemma Conroy
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Editorial |
AI will transform science — now researchers must tame it
A new Nature series will explore the many ways in which artificial intelligence is changing science — for better and for worse.
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Career Column |
What’s the best chatbot for me? Researchers put LLMs through their paces
When it comes to large language models, there’s one for every occasion. Find the most appropriate match for you in our AI speed-dating feature.
- Elizabeth M. Humphries
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- & Jeffrey T. Leek
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AI tools as science policy advisers? The potential and the pitfalls
Large language models and other artificial-intelligence systems could be excellent at synthesizing scientific evidence for policymakers — but only with appropriate safeguards and humans in the loop.
- Chris Tyler
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- & William J. Sutherland
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AI and science: what 1,600 researchers think
A Nature survey finds that scientists are concerned, as well as excited, by the increasing use of artificial-intelligence tools in research.
- Richard Van Noorden
- & Jeffrey M. Perkel
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Science and the new age of AI
A Nature special on how AI is transforming the scientific enterprise.
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How to stop AI deepfakes from sinking society — and science
Deceptive videos and images created using generative AI could sway elections, crash stock markets and ruin reputations. Researchers are developing methods to limit their harm.
- Nicola Jones
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AlphaFold touted as next big thing for drug discovery — but is it?
Questions remain about whether the AI tool for predicting protein structures can really shake up the pharmaceutical industry.
- Carrie Arnold
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‘They went to the bar at noon’: what this virtual AI village is teaching researchers
Researcher Joon Park talks about making a small town of AI-powered agents open-source.
- Matthew Hutson
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Comment |
AI can help to speed up drug discovery — but only if we give it the right data
Artificial-intelligence tools that enable companies to share data about drug candidates while keeping sensitive information safe can unleash the potential of machine learning and cutting-edge lab techniques, for the common good.
- Marissa Mock
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- & Alan Russell
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AlphaFold tool pinpoints protein mutations that cause disease
Researchers have adapted the AI network to search for genetic changes linked to ill health.
- Ewen Callaway
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Outlook |
A test of artificial intelligence
As debate rages over the abilities of modern AI systems, scientists are still struggling to effectively assess machine intelligence.
- Michael Eisenstein
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Why Japan is building its own version of ChatGPT
Some Japanese researchers feel that AI systems trained on foreign languages cannot grasp the intricacies of Japanese language and culture.
- Tim Hornyak
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AI detects eye disease and risk of Parkinson’s from retinal images
Researchers have developed a model trained similarly to ChatGPT that can be adapted to evaluate multiple health conditions.
- Mariana Lenharo
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| Open AccessUncovering new families and folds in the natural protein universe
The extent to which the AlphaFold database has structurally illuminated proteins that are challenging to annotate for function or putative biological role using standard homology-based approaches at high predicted accuracy is investigated.
- Janani Durairaj
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AI predicts chemicals’ smells from their structures
Neural network can provide descriptions, such as ‘grassy’, for a wide variety of molecules, including some that don’t exist in nature.
- Sara Reardon
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AI finally beats humans at a real-life sport — drone racing
The new system combines simulation with onboard sensing and computation.
- Dan Fox
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News & Views |
Drone-racing champions outpaced by AI
An autonomous drone has competed against human drone-racing champions — and won. The victory can be attributed to savvy engineering and a type of artificial intelligence that learns mostly through trial and error.
- Guido C. H. E. de Croon
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News & Views |
Analog chip paves the way for sustainable AI
As the resources required by artificial intelligence increase unsustainably, an analog design provides an energy-efficient alternative to digital computer chips — and one that is ideally suited to neural-network computations.
- Hechen Wang
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Brain-reading devices allow paralysed people to talk using their thoughts
Two studies report considerable improvements in technologies designed to help people with facial paralysis to communicate.
- Miryam Naddaf
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Technology Feature |
Artificial-intelligence search engines wrangle academic literature
Developers want to free scientists to focus on discovery and innovation by helping them to draw connections from a massive body of literature.
- Amanda Heidt
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ChatGPT-like AIs are coming to major science search engines
The Scopus, Dimensions and Web of Science databases are introducing conversational AI search.
- Richard Van Noorden
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Review Article |
Scientific discovery in the age of artificial intelligence
The advances in artificial intelligence over the past decade are examined, with a discussion on how artificial intelligence systems can aid the scientific process and the central issues that remain despite advances.
- Hanchen Wang
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AI search of Neanderthal proteins resurrects ‘extinct’ antibiotics
Scientists identify protein snippets made by extinct hominins.
- Saima Sidik
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AI helps scientists to eavesdrop on endangered pink dolphins
Acoustic tracking technology could feed into conservation projects in the Amazon and beyond.
- Lilly Tozer
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Heat-assisted imaging enables day-like visibility at night
An imaging technique that uses a neural-network model to obtain physical information from infrared radiation improves on existing techniques in low-visibility situations, and could be deployed immediately in autonomous vehicles.
- Manish Bhattarai
- & Sophia Thompson
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Nature Podcast |
AI-enhanced night-vision lets users see in the dark
Night-vision technology gets a boost from machine learning, and the mysterious link between COVID-19 and type-1 diabetes.
- Nick Petrić Howe
- & Shamini Bundell
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Editorial |
ChatGPT is a black box: how AI research can break it open
Despite their wide use, large language models are still mysterious. Revealing their true nature is urgent and important.
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ChatGPT gives an extra productivity boost to weaker writers
The AI program allows people with limited writing skills to create higher-quality texts — but makes little difference to proficient writers’ work quality.
- Mariana Lenharo
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AI tools are designing entirely new proteins that could transform medicine
Digital art techniques can now devise custom, working biomolecules on demand.
- Ewen Callaway
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Article
| Open AccessDe novo design of protein structure and function with RFdiffusion
Fine-tuning the RoseTTAFold structure prediction network on protein structure denoising tasks yields a generative model for protein design that achieves outstanding performance on a wide range of protein structure and function design challenges.
- Joseph L. Watson
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Career Column |
Computer algorithms infer gender, race and ethnicity. Here’s how to avoid their pitfalls
Demographic-prediction algorithms have various challenges, following best practices can minimize the harms.
- Jeffrey W. Lockhart
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The outlook for AI weather prediction
Two models demonstrate the enormous potential that artificial intelligence holds for weather prediction. But the risks involved demand that meteorologists learn to design, evaluate and interpret such systems.
- Imme Ebert-Uphoff
- & Kyle Hilburn
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Nature Video |
A robotic raspberry teaches machines how to pick fruit
This fake raspberry allows researchers to train fruit-picking robots in the lab before field tests.
- Shamini Bundell
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Stop talking about tomorrow’s AI doomsday when AI poses risks today
Talk of artificial intelligence destroying humanity plays into the tech companies’ agenda, and hinders effective regulation of the societal harms AI is causing right now.
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