[Market Trends] AI That Connects the Digital and Physical Worlds | Anima Anandkumar | TED
๐ Transforming Science and Engineering: The Power of Neural Operators
Anima Anandkumar discusses her journey from a fascination with computerized manufacturing in India to pioneering AI research connecting digital and physical worlds. She stresses the limitations of language models, which lack physical grounding, and introduces neural operators. These operators represent data as continuous functions, allowing infinitely precise simulations. Anandkumar showcases neural operators' application in redesigning medical catheters to prevent infections, creating a high-resolution AI weather model, and simulating plasma in nuclear reactors. She emphasizes the potential of AI to solve complex scientific challenges and envisions a generalist AI with universal physical understanding.