15 Stunning Advances in Artificial Intelligence

“Ghost Population” discovery

In February of 2019, a report released by Nature Communications revealed that machine learning technology had found evidence in the human genome of unknown human ancestors, or a “ghost population.”

Somewhere down the line of human evolutionary history, a previously undiscovered group of hominins bred with homo sapiens leaving behind traces of DNA.

The study is one of the first to directly illuminate how AI can actually help humans understand our own origins.