Science Daily's coverage of artificial intelligence research

University of Michigan researchers unveiled Prima, a vision‑language AI that reads brain MRIs in seconds and flags urgent cases. In a study of over 30,000 scans, Prima achieved 97.5% accuracy across more than 50 neurological diagnoses and could prioritize emergencies such as strokes. The system integrates imaging with patient history, delivering real‑time alerts to the appropriate specialist. Published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the work suggests a scalable path to faster, more accurate neuro‑radiology.

A new review in Frontiers in Science warns that rapid advances in artificial intelligence and neurotechnology are outpacing scientific understanding of consciousness. Researchers argue that defining and detecting consciousness has become an urgent scientific and moral priority, with potential applications...

Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology demonstrated that AI systems equipped with an internal "self‑talk" module and enhanced working memory learn faster and generalize better across tasks. By training models to engage in quiet internal speech while...

A new Nature Communications study finds that the human brain processes spoken language in a stepwise fashion that mirrors the layered architecture of large language models such as GPT‑2 and Llama 2. Using electrocorticography recordings while participants listened to a 30‑minute...

Researchers at Cambridge, UCL and Queen Mary have unveiled CytoDiffusion, a generative‑AI system that scrutinizes blood‑smear images to flag abnormal cells. Trained on more than half a million samples, the model captures subtle morphological variations that often elude human experts....

Johns Hopkins researchers demonstrated that AI systems built with brain‑inspired architectures can exhibit human‑like neural activity without any pre‑training. By comparing untrained transformers, fully connected networks, and convolutional neural networks, they found that only the convolutional designs produced activity patterns matching...

Researchers at Duke University unveiled an AI framework that distills complex, high‑dimensional dynamics into simple, linear‑like equations. Inspired by Koopman’s operator theory, the system combines deep learning with physics‑based constraints to isolate a few hidden variables governing behavior. Tested on...

Researchers at the University of Navarra have launched RNACOREX, an open‑source platform that maps miRNA‑mRNA regulatory networks linked to cancer survival. Tested on thirteen tumor types from TCGA, the tool matches the predictive power of sophisticated AI models while delivering...

Researchers from Columbia, Stanford, Penn and NY‑Presbyterian unveiled BISC, a 3 mm³ silicon brain‑computer interface that streams neural data at 100 Mbps. The chip hosts 65,536 electrodes, 1,024 recording and 16,384 stimulation channels, and communicates wirelessly via a wearable relay. Early human...