DeepMind made a name for itself by building a computer thatbeat the universe champion at Go(andfreaked everyone out ) but now it ’s moving on to a undertaking more likely to assist the unwashed man : diagnose blindness .
DeepMind has teamed up to work with the National Health Service , England ’s publically funded healthcare system , to evolve an algorithm that can better predict eye disease — admit eventual blindness — from just front at a scan of the eye . The NHS will share a million anonymous heart scans with DeepMind , who will take the machine to detect insidious sign that something is unseasonable . An ophthalmologist get through DeepMind after reading about how ittaught itself to be good at Atari games , and realized that it might also be unspoilt at other types of effigy recognition .
This is the 2nd NHS partnership , after an earlier one where DeepMind technology is used to supervise kidney health . DeepMind ’s NHS partnershiphas been criticized by concealment campaigners in the past , and is being review by a panel of health care expert and government agents .
But it ’s not the only company trying to apply car learning to healthcare . Among a host of other startups , IBM is training its Jeopardy!-champ Watsonto make personalized treatment for cancer . possibly AI will make us all healthier right beforethey take us all out .
[ The Guardian , Business Insider ]
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