Technology Vision 2023 | When Atoms meet Bits #TechVision 30 develop a bacteria-produced bioplastic designed to decompose in the ocean. So far, 昀椀ve oceanographic equipment manufacturing partners have committed to replacing all their traditional plastic with this new degradable bioplastic once it’s ready, with commercialization and other product applications being 31 explored as the collaboration evolves. Or look at the grand challenge of delivering better healthcare. When it comes to using data to improve treatment, hospitals are typically limited to their own datasets for patient privacy reasons. But in a recent study published in Nature Medicine, 20 hospitals from around the world participated in training a federated learning model called EXAM, which predicted future oxygen 32 The model leveraged data, including requirements of COVID-19 patients. patient vital signs, laboratory data, and chest X-rays, from all of the participating hospitals—but each hospital trained their own copy of the AI model and periodically shared updates with a centralized server, which then aggregated them to train the global model. In this case, the hospitals created a shared reality that they couldn’t have before, using federated learning to safely share digital data on physical information to improve AI predictions.