Deep Science: Using machine learning to study anatomy, weather and earthquakes – TechCrunch

Research papers come out far too rapidly for anyone to read them all, especially in the field of machine learning, which now affects (and produces papers in) practically every industry and company. This column aims to collect the most relevant recent discoveries and papers -- particularly in but not limited to artificial intelligence -- and explain why they matter. This week has a bit more "basic research" than consumer applications. Machine learning can be applied to advantage in many ways users benefit from, but it's also transformative in areas like seismology and biology, where enormous backlogs of data can be leveraged to train AI models or as raw material to be mined for insights. We're surrounded by natural phenomena that we don't really understand -- obviously we know where earthquakes and storms come from, but how exactly do they propagate?