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Organizations, authors and others at the intersection of AI and science. (Updated Summer 2023)

ORGANIZATIONS
Practice Area(s)OrganizationTypeNotes
PhysicsIAIFI: Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental InteractionsAcademia + GovernmentNSF-funded collaborative among MIT, Harvard, Northeastern and Tufts
Physics, BiologyA3D3: Accelerated AI Algorithms for Data-Driven Discovery InstituteAcademia + GovernmentNSF-funded collaborative among Caltech, Duke, MIT, Purdue, UC San Diego, U. Illinois, U. Minnesota, U. Washington, U Wisconsin-Madison
BiologyARNI: Institute for Artificial and Natural IntelligenceAcademia + GovernmentNSF-funded; Columbia-University led with multiple collaborators
Physics, Biology, AGIDeepMindFor-ProfitAlphaFold product simulates protein folding. Their podcast here.
Biology, AGIMeta AIFor-ProfitDeveloped ESMFold model to predict proteins
ChemistryThe Matter LabAcademiaHosted at the University of Toronto; Tech Review coverage
PhysicsCreative Machines LabAcademiaHosted at Columbia U; coverage of their work deriving laws of physics
PhysicsVertaix LabAcademiaHosted at Princeton University
BiologyIsomorphic LabsFor-ProfitSpun out of DeepMind
BiologyInsitroFor-ProfitSeries C funded AI drug discovery and development startup
BiologyPathAIFor-ProfitBoston-based Series C pathology startup
BiologyGoogle CloudFor-ProfitCoverage of their AI-powered drug discovery platform
AGIAnthropicFor-Profit
AGIOpenAINon-Profit
BOOKS
Title & AuthorNotes
Superintelligence, by Nick BostromDetailed investigation into capabilities and risks of powerful general artificial intelligence systems
How to Create a Mind, By Ray Kurzweil Provides overview of the machine-like way the human mind already works (e.g. via pattern recognition) and the implications for designing intelligent systems.
The Case Against Reality, by Donald Hoffman“Fitness beats truth”: compelling research into how the human mind – by design – has treated seeing actual reality for a more convenient visual interface
Life 3.0, by Max TegmarkProposes a framework through which to assess evolutionary progress, Life 3.0 being easily swappable hardware and software.
MEDIA
Coverage Area(s)OrganizationNotes
Physics, Biology, AIQuanta MagazineFunded by the Simons Foundation. YouTube channel here.
Physics, Biology, AINatureFounded in 1869, publishes various journals including on Machine Intelligence
Physics, Biology, AIScienceFounded in 1880, the peer-reviewed journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Physics, Biology, AIarXivOpen-access archive for scholarly articles. Includes sections on physics and quantitative biology.
Physics, Biology, AICloser to Truth22+ season long PBS series cosmos and consciousness
PhysicsPBS Space TimeYouTube series on cosmology, physics
PhysicsMindscape Podcast as hosted by theoretical physicist Sean Carroll
CONFERENCES
Focus Area(s)ConferenceNotes
AIMIT EmTech DigitalAnnual Spring-time event
AIICLR: International Conference on Learning RepresentationsOther notable AI conferences listed here
Quantum ComputingQ2B: Quantum to BusinessMy write-up from attending this conference in 2019 here
PATRONS
Investment Area(s)OrganizationType
Physics, BiologyNational Science FoundationGovernment
Physics, BiologySimons FoundationNon-Profit
Physics, BiologySchmidt FuturesNon-Profit
PhysicsAllen Institute for AINon-Profit
PhysicsFQxI: Foundational Questions InstituteNon-Profit
SUPPLIERS
OrganizationProduct
NvidiaGPUs, e.g. their H100 Tensor Core; also offer an accompanying platform
AMDGPUs, e.g. their MI300X
IntelGPUs, e.g. their Data Center GPUs
CerebrasWafer-Scale Engine, also accessible via Cloud
Google CloudTPUs, e.g. those accessible via Cloud
NOTABLE MENTIONS
Focus Area(s)ResourceNotes
PhysicsWolfram Physics ProjectProject to derive the source of fundamental physics
PhysicsCERN: European Organization for Nuclear ResearchLargest particle physics laboratory in the world
PhysicsFermilabUS-based particle physics and accelerator laboratory
PhysicsSCGP: Simons Center for Geometry and PhysicsLocated at Stony Brook University
AI SAFETY & ALIGNMENT
OrganizationNotes
FHI: Future of Humanity InstituteLed by Nick Bostrom, located at Oxford
FLI: Future of Life InstituteCo-founded by cosmologist Max Tegmark
Center for Humane TechnologyCollaborators on “The Social Dilemma”
MIRI: Machine Intelligence Research InstituteDirectors include Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI alignment advocate