AI that knows you're sick before you do: IBM's five-year plan to remake healthcare
A mix of artificial intelligence and custom silicon could help people diagnose themselves with a range of conditions before they show symptoms.
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Rebuilding the brain: Using AI, electrodes, and machine learning to bridge gaps in the human nervous system
The Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering is building a bidirectional human computer interface that could be used to help stroke and spinal injury patients.
Open-source AI tool aims to help identify coronavirus infections
One Canadian startup has created a tool to detect coronavirus infections on X-rays.
AI, MD: Five unexpected ways that artificial intelligence will make your healthcare better
In some areas, artificial intelligence can spot disease just as well as human doctors. But it's not the only way AI could really make a difference to healthcare.
Building the brain: The project using supercomputers to unpick the mysteries of the mind
The Human Brain Project is an ambitious initiative that seeks to understand how the brain works by simulating it with technology. Could it help us understand the nature of our own consciouness?
The ghost in the machine: Vicarious and the search for AI that can rival the human brain
Startup Vicarious is aiming to build the first general artificial intelligence system -- just don't expect it any time soon.
AI and the coronavirus fight: How artificial intelligence is taking on COVID-19
From moderating social media to unpicking the very essence of COVID-19, AI is helping tackle the coronavirus in all manner of ingenious ways.
AIs are getting smarter, fast. That's creating tricky questions that we can't answer
AIs don't have human-level abilities yet, and they might never have them. But there are questions of responsibility, rights and moral status that we still need to talk about today.
AI, MD: How artificial intelligence is changing the way illness is diagnosed and treated
While privacy and regulation will slow the pace of adoption, AI will bring some profound changes to healthcare.