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Viewpoint: ‘Long-promised AI revolution’ in healthcare delayed by shortcomings, including systems that are easily misled

Gary Marcus, Max Little | 
Today, hundreds of startup companies around the world are trying to apply deep learning to radiology. Yet the number of radiologists who ...
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The frightening thing about military AI: It may be too easily fooled, ‘turned against it owners’

Will Knight | 
Last March, Chinese researchers announced an ingenious and potentially devastating attack against one of America’s most prized technological assets—a Tesla ...
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Artificial intelligence can determine your ‘brain age’ by analyzing MRI scans

Shelly Fan | 
Delaying “brain age” may sound like the latest quick-fix gimmick on a late-night infomercial, but the science underlying the concept ...
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AI has a problem with generalization. Human brains may offer a solution.

Shelly Fan | 
Unconstrained by evolution, AI has the potential to churn through vast amounts of data to surpass our puny, fatty central ...
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Viewpoint: There’s reason for optimism about AI’s ability to diagnose illnesses—but there’s also a lot of hype

Edd Gent | 
Medicine is one of the hottest fields when it comes to applying AI to real-world problems, in particular using deep learning systems to ...
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AI and digital health devices: FDA’s new guidelines seek to ‘strike a delicate balance’ between safety and innovation

Casey Ross | 
The Food and Drug Administration has issued new guidelines on how it will regulate mobile health software and products that ...
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Brain scans, like DNA, can say a lot about who you are. That creates ethical, privacy concerns.

Evan Morris | 
Many people are aware—and properly protective—of the vast stores of information contained in their DNA. When DNA samples were collected ...
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Viewpoint: Before we ‘summon the demon’ of AI, we need a global consensus on ethics

Shelly Fan | 
The potential threats of AI are many, and most people agree that ethical AI that benefits humanity as a whole ...
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Asia is pulling ahead in the AI race – but are ethics being prioritized?

Globally, future outlooks for artificial intelligence (AI) swing between two extremes—excited anticipation about the positive impact AI will have on ...
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Artificial intelligence could revolutionize health care, but there’s no guarantee that will be a good thing

Jeremy Hsu | 
AI-driven medical tools could democratize health care, but some worry they could also worsen inequalities ...
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AI has the power to advance healthcare. Here’s why it hasn’t yet ‘moved the needle’

Shelly Fan | 
The promise of AI to solve our health and wellness woes almost seems inevitable. From DeepMind’s algorithms that match or ...
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3 ways neuroscience and AI can work together to help us understand how we think

Shelly Fan | 
The meteoric success of deep learning showcases how insights from neuroscience—memory, learning, decision-making, vision—can be distilled into algorithms that bestow ...
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Here are 3 problems with DeepMind’s AI breakthrough, including poor accuracy at predicting acute kidney injuries

Julia Powles | 
[Google-affiliated artificial intelligence] DeepMind claimed its biggest healthcare breakthrough to date: that artificial intelligence (A.I.) can predict acute kidney injury ...
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Viewpoint: AI promises to revolutionize personalized medicine. Now we need ‘clinical validation’.

Eric Topol | 
Machines can now be trained to see things humans cannot, and likely never will.  ... From obviating the need to ...
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Podcast: AI-powered nutrition devices could cut exploding obesity rates. Will FDA rules keep them off the market?

Cameron English, Richard Williams | 
Medical devices powered by artificial intelligence could help overweight people customize diets based on their biomarkers ...
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Improving artificial intelligence by teaching our machines to reason

Karen Hao | 
Deep learning, the category of AI algorithms that kick-started the field’s most recent revolution, has made immense strides in giving ...
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Will we ever know if our computers gain consciousness?

Elisabeth Hildt | 
The question of whether machines can have consciousness is not new, with proponents of strong artificial intelligence (strong AI) and ...
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Artificial intelligence doesn’t ‘think’ like we do. How can we ever trust it?

Shohini Kundu | 
Today, digital information technology has redefined how people interact with each other socially, and even how some find their partners ...
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AI promises to improve cancer care through precision medicine. Oncologists are starting to agree.

Bruce Feinberg | 
To get a better handle on the collective “take” on artificial intelligence for cancer care, my colleagues and I at ...
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Artificial intelligence could change the way we detect, treat breast cancer

Heather Couture | 
The same technology that powers Siri and face recognition on your iPhone has also found success in medicine. By automatically ...
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Here’s how artificial intelligence could ‘poison’ healthcare

Casey Ross | 
Artificial intelligence is often hailed as a great catalyst of medical innovation, a way to find cures to diseases that ...
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Uganda set to embrace artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, but biotechnology languishes

Peter Wamboga-Mugirya | 
'Something fundamentally detrimental to the progress of scientific and technological innovations in the agriculture of our nation is happening.' ...
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Startup wants to combine DNA, machine learning for earlier autism diagnosis

Kate Clark | 
Probably Genetic, which recently graduated from the startup accelerator Y Combinator, wants to test the DNA of children with autism ...
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Redefining artificial intelligence: It could work more like a ‘search engine’ than a human brain

Thomas Hornigold | 
With respect to AI, [engineer Eric] Drexler believes our view of an artificial intelligence as a single “agent” that acts ...
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Google’s AI beats human doctors at diagnosing lung cancer in study

Casey Ross | 
One of lung cancer’s most lethal attributes is its ability to trick radiologists. Some nodules appear threatening but turn out ...
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We could try to build a conscious robot. But how would we know if we succeeded?

Hakwan Lau | 
Consciousness seems to stem from the struggle between our brain's beliefs and perceptions. How can we design neural networks to ...
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Can biohacking transform our homes into ‘hospitals of the future’?

Francesco Corea | 
The need of having a higher quality of care and more control and transparency over individual healthcare are affecting the ...
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