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AI can teach doctors to spot signs of cancer-causing viruses

10 July 2019

AI can spot previously unknown signs of cancer-related viruses in tissue samples, and can teach doctors to look for these patterns themselves


A child gets their chest examined

AI can diagnose childhood illnesses better than some doctors

11 February 2019

Artificial intelligence has now been used to sort through medical history, lab tests, and symptoms and find a diagnosis for common and life-threatening paediatric diseases


AI created images of food just by reading the recipes

AI created images of food just by reading the recipes

10 January 2019

AI can read a recipe and guess what the food will look like. Some of the results look like food you might cook at home, others look like inedible mush


Face analysis software on computer

AI can identify rare genetic disorders by the shape of someone’s face

7 January 2019

Doctors use facial features to diagnose common genetic disorders, but that’s tricky to do with some rare ones – artificial intelligence can help


An simulated robots runs through an obstacle course

AIs invent weird new limbs to beat virtual obstacle courses

11 October 2018

Simulated robots can learn to control their bodies in many creative ways, and now they can also build the best limbs for crossing through an obstacle course


Regina Barzilay

How an AI expert’s cancer diagnosis may lead to a treatment revolution

18 July 2018

When Regina Barzilay was diagnosed with breast cancer, she was shocked at how haphazard the process was – and vowed to use her expertise to change things


DeepMind’s AI can ‘imagine’ a world based on a single picture

DeepMind’s AI can ‘imagine’ a world based on a single picture

14 June 2018

A neural network has taught itself to ‘imagine’ a scene from different viewpoints, including how shadows move and textures vary, based on just a single image


Robot with four legs

8 hilarious ways AI has outsmarted us to get the job done

15 March 2018

Artificial intelligence does the funniest things. A new crowd-sourced list tells the times when AI did the unexpected


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