Scientific discovery
AI enabled a finding about the world, not just about AI.
2 milestones.
UMass Amherst researchers demonstrate protein-nanowire memristors for neuromorphic computing
In June 2021, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst published findings in Nature Communications showing that protein nanowires harvested from the bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens can function as memristors, enabling brain-inspired computation at ultralow power without a conventional battery.
Reinforcement learning framework proposed to model T-cell adaptive immune response
In 2021, researchers published in Physical Review Research a theoretical framework proposing that T-cell receptor signalling during adaptive immunity can be formally described as a reinforcement learning process, connecting immunological learning to established machine-learning theory.