Fast Company April 16, 2021
The company has developed an open-source framework for predicting how different treatments will affect individual cells.
Facebook’s AI Research lab (FAIR) is trying to teach machines how to think like humans. That means being able to pick up a skill or information and use it to create something entirely new. Consider the act of cooking.
“When we learn how to cook, we first learn a few simple recipes, and then we can recombine them into more sophisticated dishes,” says David Lopez-Paz, a research scientist at Facebook’s AI Research lab in Paris. You may not know how to make gravy, but if you know how to make a roux, you can probably figure it out. “Machines are not there yet.”
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