Moral TechnologyMarch 21, 2019 |
Self-driving cars don’t drink and medical AIs are never overtired. Given our obvious flaws, what can humans still do best?
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How Algorithms Could Bring Empathy Back to MedicineMarch 12, 2019 |
Thomas R. Insel lauds a call for artificial intelligence to give doctors back the freedom to focus on their patients
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Artificial intelligence systems are powerful tools for businesses and governments to process data and respond to changing situations, whether on the stock market or on a battlefield. But there are still some things AI isn’t ready for
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Discovering and designing a new drug is one of the most challenging tasks in the biological sciences. It takes over 10 years and about US$2.6 billion to bring an average drug to market
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AI Can Diagnose Some Childhood Illnesses Better than Some DoctorsFebruary 13, 2019 |
Diagnosing an illness requires taking in a lot of information and connecting the dots. Artificial intelligence may be well-suited to such a task and in recent tests one system could diagnose children’s illnesses better than some doctors
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A.I. Could Worsen Health DisparitiesJanuary 31, 2019 |
Dhruv Khullar writes that in a health system riddled with inequity, we risk making dangerous biases automated and invisible.
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Why Do All These Robots Have Cartoon Eyes?January 23, 2019 |
There’s just something about craft store cuteness that doesn’t suggest the coming war against AI
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Researchers hope that by probing the immune system, they can determine why children are developing a polio-like disease
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