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Artificial intelligence in healthcare is often a story of percentages. One 2017 study predicted AI could broadly improve patient outcomes [open, DOI: 10.7717/peerj.7702] [DX] by 30 to 40 percent. Which makes a manifold improvement in results particularly noteworthy.
In this case, according to one Israeli machine learning startup, AI has the potential to boost the success rate of in vitro fertilization (IVF) by as much as 3x compared to traditional methods. In other words, at least according to these results, couples struggling to conceive that use the right AI system could be multiple times more likely to get pregnant.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines assisted reproductive technology (ART) as the process of removing eggs from a woman's ovaries, fertilizing it with sperm and then implanting it back in the body.
The overall success rate of traditional ART is less than 30%, according to a recent study [open, DOI: 10.5455/aim.2019.27.205-211] [DX] in the journal Acta Informatica Medica.
But, says Daniella Gilboa, CEO of Tel Aviv, Israel-based AiVF—which provides an automated framework for fertility and IVF treatment—help may be on the way. (However, she also cautions against simply multiplying 3x with the 30% traditional ART success rate quoted above. "Since pregnancy is very much dependent on age and other factors, simple multiplication is not the way to compare the two methods," Gilboa says.)
Journal Reference:
Abhimanyu S. Ahuja. The impact of artificial intelligence in medicine on the future role of the physician, PeerJ (DOI: 10.7717/peerj.7702)
(Score: 4, Insightful) by acid andy on Friday January 01 2021, @07:03PM (13 children)
This is not what the planet needs. I lack the will to even spell out why anymore.
khallow will probably be pleased, though.
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday January 01 2021, @07:16PM (7 children)
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Friday January 01 2021, @07:25PM (5 children)
Our species would almost certainly survive such an onslaught.
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday January 01 2021, @08:26PM (4 children)
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 5, Insightful) by acid andy on Friday January 01 2021, @08:47PM (3 children)
Let's demonstrate we can treat the current world population with some basic shred of dignity before we continue implementing strategies to grow it.
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Tork on Saturday January 02 2021, @12:23AM (2 children)
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Saturday January 02 2021, @02:38PM (1 child)
Yeah I didn't mean we should stop trying to fight COVID and other diseases, though I can see how the post looked like that.
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday January 02 2021, @05:41PM
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 01 2021, @07:53PM
You're thinking of the vaccine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 01 2021, @08:21PM (1 child)
"The planet" doesn't need anything from humans.
Maybe you meant *other people*, as in, *I* want what *I* want?
Or maybe you meant animals and plants? They don't really care because they are not aware. This would still be about what you want. So just come out and say it, *I* want less people to be born.
(Score: 3, Touché) by acid andy on Friday January 01 2021, @08:38PM
Some evidence for your claim would be good otherwise it's your word (and a whole lot of traditionalists) against mine and a whole lot of other people.
Evidence against your claim is that we are animals and we're self-aware. There are plenty of studies (the mirror test for example) that suggest self-awareness is present in other animals.
I'd also argue you can care on some level about your fate (Hungry--food now! That hurts--stop!) without having self-awareness in the sense of introspection or a mental model of yourself.
I want fewer people to be born.
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 01 2021, @08:39PM
He would. Product of AIVF, our khallow is! In a lab.
(Score: 2) by Hartree on Saturday January 02 2021, @05:34AM
Given that IVF currently accounts for %0.4 of yearly births worldwide, I think I'll give more of my attention to the proven ways of reducing the birth rate, like: increasing the rate of education of women worldwide, raising standard of living above poverty, providing birth control and the sex education to use it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 02 2021, @07:14PM
The easiest way to bring world population down is to guarantee everybody enough food to survive, clothes on their back and a roof over their head. Most of the population growth is from areas where parents need children to provide for them in old age. It's not enough for them to have the 2 children average that would lead to a controlled decrease in population, they need to ensure that they've got at least one or two that survive to adulthood.