Accelerating UK Science in the Age of AI

Contributors: Bridget Boakye (TBI), Rory Byrne (University of Cambridge), Ruairidh McLennan Battleday (Harvard University), James Whittington (University of Oxford; Stanford University) Foreword Artificial intelligence promises to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery and revolutionise how we uncover and use new knowledge. The potential is already clear: DeepMind’s AlphaFold, for example, cracked a 50-year challenge in…

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Demystifying Artificial Intelligence: Understanding the Mechanism Behind the Magic

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly touching nearly every aspect of our modern life, from simple predictive models for text completion when composing messages and emails to highly sophisticated content creation, such as prompt-based realistic video generation. Yet despite AI’s widespread prevalence, there remains unawareness or misunderstanding about what AI truly is and how it operates….

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