The Rundown AI: Alzheimers – Bill Gates – AI


AI & MEDICAL RESEARCH🔬 Bill Gates backs Alzheimer’s AI challengeImage source: Midjourney / The Rundown

The Rundown: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is funding the Alzheimer’s Insights AI Prize, a $1M competition to develop AI agents that can autonomously analyze decades of Alzheimer’s research data and accelerate discoveries.

The details:The competition is seeking AI agents that autonomously plan, reason, and act to “accelerate breakthrough discoveries” from decades of global patient data.

Gates Ventures is funding the prize through the Alzheimer’s Disease Data Initiative, with the winning tool to be made freely available to scientists.The competition is open to a range of contestants, including both individual AI engineers and big tech labs, with applications opening this week.

Why it matters: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has said he envisions “curing all disease” with AI in the next decade, and Gates is betting that AI agents can help accelerate Alzheimer’s research right now. The free release requirement also ensures that discoveries benefit global research instead of being locked behind corporate walls
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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