Steve Herne is a distinguished professional with over 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical research and development industry. Throughout his career, he has held leadership roles at notable companies such as WCG, Bioclinica, ERT, Icon Development Solutions, Covance, MDS Pharma Services, and Inveresk Research. In these positions, Herne excelled in driving long-term growth, providing…
Before the tractor was invented, farmers worked their land tirelessly alongside beasts of burden such as horses and mules that required six acres of land for feed, per animal, each year. Fearing change, job replacement, or cost, farm owners didn’t exactly rejoice and were generally skeptical of the tractor. Still, its use eventually became standard…
Generative AI has made impressive strides in recent years. It can write essays, create art, and even compose music. But when it comes to getting facts right, it often falls short. It might confidently tell you that zebras live underwater or that the Eiffel Tower is in Rome. While these mistakes might seem harmless, they…
At an early age, Katie Spivakovsky learned to study the world from different angles. Dinner-table conversations at her family’s home in Menlo Park, California, often leaned toward topics like the Maillard reaction — the chemistry behind food browning — or the fascinating mysteries of prime numbers. Spivakovsky’s parents, one of whom studied physical chemistry and…
MIT scientists have released a powerful, open-source AI model, called Boltz-1, that could significantly accelerate biomedical research and drug development. Developed by a team of researchers in the MIT Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health, Boltz-1 is the first fully open-source model that achieves state-of-the-art performance at the level of AlphaFold3, the model from Google…
Why it matters: Explore the concept of Fourier Analysis Networks (FANs), their applications, and impact on AI advancements.
Why it matters: Understanding A.I. thought processes, reasoning methods, and decision-making impact on industries and daily life.
A compelling new study from Germany critiques the EU AI Act’s definition of the term ‘deepfake’ as overly vague, particularly in the context of digital image manipulation. The authors argue that the Act’s emphasis on content resembling real people or events – yet potentially appearing fake – lacks clarity. They also highlight that the Act’s…
When researchers first discovered that large language models (LLMs) could “think” step by step through chain-of-thought prompting, it was a breakthrough moment – finally, we could peek into the reasoning process of these black boxes. But what if I told you that making AI models think in natural language might be holding them back? That…
The breathless publicity surrounding Gen-AI often makes it difficult for CFOs to avoid the conventional approach of obsessing about the costs of Gen-AI adoption or its likely scale of impact in the near-term. However, I believe the time has come for CFOs to break with convention and become advocates for the technology within their organizations,…