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A Health App's AI Took On Human Doctors To Triage Patients

A Health App's AI Took On Human Doctors To Triage Patients

by The Daily Eye Team June 9 2016, 9:52 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 33 secs

Two decades on from artificial intelligence
beating chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, AI is proving it can do some conventionally human jobs. One UK-based health app now hopes its AI can take over some tasks that would usually only be trusted to a doctor or nurse.
In a swish new office in London’s Chelsea on Tuesday, health technology firm Babylon pitted its app against a junior doctor and a nurse with 20 years of accident and emergency experience. The machine and the medical professionals were tasked with deciding the priority of treatment for an ailment, a process known in the medical profession as triage.

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