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GPT-3’s Next Mark: Diagnosing Alzheimer’s Through Speech

There’s one deceptively simple early sign of Alzheimer’s not often talked about: a subtle change in speech patterns. Increased hesitation. Grammatical mistakes. Forgetting the meaning of a word, or mispronouncing common words—or favorite phrases and idioms—that used to flow naturally. Scientists have long thought to decode this linguistic degeneration as an early indicator of Alzheimer’s. One idea is to use natural language software as a “guide” of sorts that hunts down unusual use of language. Sounds simple, right? Here’s the problem: everyone talks differently. It seems obvious, but it’s a giant headache for AI. Our speech patterns, cadence, tone, and…

Expanding AI Technology For Unstructured Biomedical Text Beyond English

The health industry is embracing the power of big data, cloud computing, and clinical analytics, harnessing data to deliver insights that can improve care and efficiency. Still, unstructured text remains a challenge—made even more complex by barriers of language. Doctors’ notes and other unstructured text are often left unreferenced, are hard to parse and learn from, and are difficult to extract insights from, which leads to missed opportunities for diagnosis and better care. Microsoft recognizes the need to enable healthcare organizations worldwide to gather insights from this data—for better, faster, and more personalized care, and to improve health equity. With Text…

Artificial Intelligence’s Promise And Peril

AS ALGORITHMS ANALYZE MAMMOGRAMS AND SMARTPHONES CAPTURE LIVED EXPERIENCES, RESEARCHERS ARE DEBATING THE USE OF AI IN PUBLIC HEALTH. John Quackenbush was frustrated with Google. It was January 2020, and a team led by researchers from Google Health had just published a study in Nature about an artificial intelligence (AI) system they had developed to analyze mammograms for signs of breast cancer. The system didn’t just work, according to the study, it worked exceptionally well. When the team fed it two large sets of images to analyze—one from the UK and one from the U.S.—it reduced false positives by 1.2 and 5.7 percent and…

How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming The World In The Current Pandemic Situation?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a wide-ranging tool that allows individuals to reconsider how we can all mix data, examine information, and use the subsequent understandings to conclude. Already it is altering each way of our life. AI’s application in various sectors has been applied drastically. They address problems in the expansions and provide approvals for receiving the most from artificial intelligence while still caring for significant human values. Artificial knowledge (AI) changing lives Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing our way of life, meaning to impersonate human insight by a PC/machine in settling different issues. At first, AI was intended…

How I’m Using AI To Translate ‘Wash Your Hands’ In 500 Languages

By using both human and machine-generated translations, key health phrases can be translated into local languages spoken all over the world. You might not know, but there are currently 7,117 languages spoken in the world. Not dialects, but living languages! However, much of the world’s digital media is available in only a couple dozen languages, and translation platforms like Google Translate only support around 100 languages. This reality means that there are billions of people around the world that are marginalized due to a lack of timely access to information. The current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has made this painfully clear, and…

Using AI To Help Health Experts Address The COVID-19 Pandemic

AI is an important tool to support public health experts around the world in their efforts to keep people safe and informed amid the coronavirus pandemic. Facebook AI is partnering with academic researchers and other experts on a range of initiatives related to COVID-19. We are sharing overviews of several of these now, and we will add updates and more information in the days and weeks to come. More information is available here about Facebook’s broader efforts related to this pandemic. Improved COVID-19 forecasting and tools for resource planning Facebook AI has partnered with New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences…

IBM Releases Novel AI-Powered Technologies To Help Health And Research Community Accelerate The Discovery Of Medical Insights And Treatments For COVID-19

IBM Research has been actively developing new cloud and AI-powered technologies that can help researchers across a variety of scientific disciplines accelerate the process of discovery. As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, we continue to ask how these technologies and our scientific knowledge can help in the global battle against coronavirus. IBM makes available multiple novel, free resources to help healthcare researchers, doctors and scientists around the world accelerate COVID-19 drug discovery: from gathering insights, to applying the latest virus genomic information and identifying potential targets for treatments, to creating new drug molecule candidates. Though some of the resources are still…

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AI Just Discovered A New Antibiotic To Kill The World’s Nastiest Bacteria

Penicillin, one of the greatest discoveries in the history of medicine, was a product of chance. After returning from summer vacation in September 1928, bacteriologist Alexander Fleming found a colony of bacteria he’d left in his London lab had sprouted a fungus. Curiously, wherever the bacteria contacted the fungus, their cell walls broke down and they died. Fleming guessed the fungus was secreting something lethal to the bacteria—and the rest is history. Fleming’s discovery of penicillin and its later isolation, synthesis, and scaling in the 1940s released a flood of antibiotic discoveries in the next few decades. Bacteria and fungi…

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Here Are 3 Ways Artificial Intelligence Will Change Healthcare By 2030

It’s a typically cold day in January 2030 and the peak of flu season. At this time of year a decade ago, clinics and doctor’s offices would be overflowing with sick people waiting to be seen; today, clinicians and patients move easily through the system. So what’s changed? Connected care has become a reality, driven by years of immense pressure on global healthcare systems without enough skilled medical professionals to care for their rapidly growing and ageing populations and breakthroughs in powerful technology enablers, such as data science and artificial intelligence (AI). AI can now reveal patterns across huge amounts of data…

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A.I. Predicts Which Drug Combos Will Best Treat TB

With a shortage of new tuberculosis drugs in the pipeline, a software tool can predict how current drugs—including unlikely candidates—can combine in new ways to create more effective treatments. “This could replace our traditional trial-and-error system for drug development that is comparatively slow and expensive,” says Sriram Chandrasekaran, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan. Dubbed INDIGO, short for INferring Drug Interactions using chemoGenomics and Orthology, the software tool has shown that teaming tuberculosis drugs with antipsychotics or antimalarials may amplify their potency. “This tool can accurately predict the activity of drug combinations, including synergy—where the activity of the combination…

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