#2323 Acinetobacter baumannii / Heart failure prediction / Barkour / Tessa
Episode description
Researchers at MIT and McMaster University have used an artificial intelligence algorithm to identify a new antibiotic that can kill Acinetobacter baumannii, a type of bacteria that is responsible for many drug-resistant infections.
https://news.mit.edu/2023/using-ai-scientists-combat-drug-resistant-infections-0525
Researchers at University College London have identified five subtypes of heart failure that could be used to predict future risk for individual patients.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-05-heart-failure-ai-tools.html
Google's DeepMind has issued a research paper outlining a benchmarking system to quantify the performance of quadruped robots.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/30/google-deepmind-introduces-barkour-a-benchmark-for-quadrupedal-robots/
The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) has fired its hotline staff and replaced them with a chatbot called Tessa, just four days after the workers unionized.
https://futurism.com/eating-disorder-hotline-staff-chatbot