I've believed for at least 25 years - and that's provable in court - and probably longer that the most important aspect of AI is Natural Language Understanding (NLU), the bigger-brother of NLP (Natural Language Processing). NLU is what AIs in movies do. And what Siri and Alexa try to do. NLU AIs should ultimately …
Author: Paul Pallaghy
I'm a PhD physicist & technologist with track records in computational physicist, AI, bioinformatics, structural biology, marine biology, outbreak epidemiology and multiple tech, biotech & agtech startups.
Which biotechs are making Coronavirus vaccines?
With China, South Korea and Italy in full on pandemics, and most of the rest of the world preparing for it, which companies are making Coronavirus vaccines? These timely biotechs include: Novavax (NVAX)Gilead (GILD)Moderna (MRNA)Invio (INO) and have seen hikes of up to 50% in their stock prices. The question is whether they can make …
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Biggest new thing in Biotech? Maybe Fragment-Based Drug Design.
In between my stint in particle physics and career in AI, I enjoyed 12 years in drug design at CSIRO (Australia's Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization) and I remember a fascinating piece of work which came out at that time and got talked around the lab coffee room for a few weeks. It was …
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Why will Tesla end up with a multi-trillion $ market cap?
Anyone following Tesla would be aware of the controversy in valuing this company (currently around $150B), putting aside the coronavirus fears for a moment which we all hope will be temporary of course. With bulls like Catherine Wood's Ark Invest quoting an incredible $2.7T within four years and the bears and shorts predicting bankruptcy only …
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Can technology save the world?
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.Buckminster Fuller Sometimes I feel that the world has gone mad. When technologists and futurists and investors like you and me can see the solutions starring us in the face . . and nobody …
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