AI that connects the digital and physical worlds | Anima Anandkumar

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🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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“While language models may help generate new ideas, they cannot attack the hard part of science, which is simulating the necessary physics,” says AI professor Anima Anandkumar. She explains how her team developed neural operators — AI trained on the finest details of the real world — to bridge this gap, sharing recent projects ranging from improved weather forecasting to cutting-edge medical device design that demonstrate the power of AI with universal physical understanding.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	You're listening to Ted Talks daily,
0:11.0	where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
0:15.0	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:17.0	Today, how AI is transforming scientific research, whether it's weather forecasting or drug discovery.
0:23.0	Professor and AI innovator Anima Anand Kumar sheds light on the way scientists can use AI to
0:29.9	capture a whole range of physical phenomena and why this could be crucial in the fight
0:35.2	against climate change after a short break.
0:40.5	And now our TED Talk of the day.
0:44.0	I grew up with parents for engineers.
0:47.0	They were among the first to bring computerized manufacturing to my hometown in India.
0:53.0	Growing up as a young girl,
0:55.0	I remember being fascinated
0:57.0	how these computer programs didn't just reside
1:00.0	within a computer,
1:01.0	but touch the physical world and produce these beautiful
1:05.8	and precise metal parts. Over the last two decades as I pursued AI research
1:12.2	this memory continued to inspire me,
1:15.0	to connect the physical and digital worlds together.
1:20.0	I am working on AI that transforms the way we do science and engineering.
1:26.1	Scientific research and engineering design
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