November AI — Breakthrough in Biology after 50 years

AI updates from November + books, datasets, research papers that are worth your time

So, November is over and I’ve come across a good list of blogs, research papers, books, and datasets that are worth deep-diving into.

This is the second part of the AI Monthly webcast, you can find the first one here.

Here’s what we are going to cover in the November AI updates:

Firstly, we’ll look at 2 interesting pieces of news that you’d have heard:

1. The first one comes from DeepMind. The latest version of their AI system AlphaFold has been recognized as a solution to figuring out the shape of protein structure in 3D.
2. The second is for TensorFlow users of Intel Macs or Macs powered by Apple’s new M1 chip can now take advantage of accelerated training using Apple’s Mac-optimized version of TensorFlow 2.4 and the new ML Compute framework.

Next, we are going to go over two interesting datasets :

1. The first one is the Objectron Dataset by Google Research — It is a collection of short, object-centric video clips capturing a larger set of common objects from different angles.
2. MedMNIST dataset which is a collection of 10…