Iggle, you may find this interesting regarding neanderthals.
AI is going to help immensely with genetic research. Pretty interesting stuff.
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Oh, Neanderthals didn't go extinct. So, that's how they got that guy for the Geico commercial.
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That is interesting, thanks.
My understanding of ML is that you need a huge volume of data to succeed. While each individual genome contains 25,000 genes, the actual stack of decoded Neanderthal genomes is pretty small. So, the data seems to have a large surface area but is shallow. I wonder if the former allows them to get around the latter in ML?
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That's kinda my take as well.
I think where they are using it here is in the pattern analysis capabilities where ML/AI is much better than humans. Like where we've used it to find archeological sites to explore.
Link: https://www.captechu.edu/blog/how-ai-and-technology-is-revolutionizing-archeology
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