The Siri of the cell – tech podcast
by Leigh Alexander and Iain Chambers from Technology | The Guardian on (#2FCXR)
How Alexa-style language processing is allowing scientists to talk to the cells of our bodies
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How can scientists deal with the huge volume of new research publish on a daily basis? How can computers go further than merely parsing scientific papers, and actually suggest hypotheses themselves? When will we see a computer as another member of the lab team, serving hundreds of scientists simultaneously from its huge data set of extant research?