Many health symptoms can be caused by multiple illnesses – if AI can’t tell the difference between them, it won’t be able to operate accurately without human oversight.

But common sense and the precautionary principle suggest that it is too early for AI to prescribe drugs without human oversight. And the fact that mistakes may be baked into the technology could mean ...

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For more than a century, scientists have argued over what really drives cancer, yet the pieces of the puzzle have rarely fit together cleanly. I now see artificial intelligence not as a magical answer ...

For decades, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have been diagnosed from the outside in, through behavior, mood, and memory ...

Automation in healthcare means using smart technology, like computers and robots, to do tasks that people used to do. This ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get ...

Studying one of the simplest animals, Stanford's Prakash Lab uncovered how it folds itself into complex shapes—revealing new ...

As Neanderthals had dominated Europe for hundreds of thousands of years, the arrival of Homo sapiens 45,000 years ago marked the beginning of their sudden disappearance. The causes of this extinction ...

One such solution is Clado, a startup founded by young entrepreneurs Eric Mao, Tom Zheng, Rohin Arya, and David Shan.