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Theresa May: Use AI to Reduce Deaths From Cancer

posted by janrinok on Monday May 21 2018, @05:19PM   
from the dying-to-see-how-it-turns-out dept.

takyon writes:

UK Prime Minister Theresa May is urging the use of artificial intelligence to help diagnose cancer:

The diagnosis of cancer and other diseases in the UK can be transformed by using artificial intelligence, Theresa May is to say. The NHS and technology companies should use AI as a "new weapon" in research, the PM will urge in a speech later.

Experts say it can be used to help prevent 22,000 cancer deaths a year by 2033 while aiding the fight against heart disease, diabetes and dementia.

High-skilled science jobs will also be created, Mrs May is to pledge. Speaking in Macclesfield, Mrs May will say: "Late diagnosis of otherwise treatable illnesses is one of the biggest causes of avoidable deaths. "And the development of smart technologies to analyse great quantities of data quickly and with a higher degree of accuracy than is possible by human beings opens up a whole new field of medical research."

Also at The Financial Times and The Guardian.

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• Re:AI Can Solve All Of Your Problems! Re:AI Can Solve All Of Your Problems! (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 21 2018, @06:14PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 21 2018, @06:14PM (#682301)

  Needs more blockchain! And maybe some Burma shave. Nice summary tho. ++

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• Re:AI Can Solve All Of Your Problems! (Score: 2) by FakeBeldin on Tuesday May 22 2018, @12:05PM

  by FakeBeldin (3360) on Tuesday May 22 2018, @12:05PM (#682606) Journal

  Needs more blockchain!

  Came here to say that next, a politician will utter the above phrase.

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