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Health and AI
A new prescription
Technology Quarterly -
AIs will make health care safer and better, reports Natasha Loder. It may even get cheaper too
- Self-programming panaceas: AIs will make health care safer and better
- Picture this: Artificial intelligence has long been improving diagnoses
- Talking things through: Medical AIs with human faces are on their way
- Intelligent design: Artificial intelligence is taking over drug development
- The AIs have it: Can artificial intelligence make health care more efficient?
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Self-programming panaceas
AIs will make health care safer and better
It may even get cheaper, too, says Natasha Loder
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Picture this
Artificial intelligence has long been improving diagnoses
But recently the field has exploded
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Intelligent design
Artificial intelligence is taking over drug development
Regulators need to up their game to keep up
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The AIs have it
Can artificial intelligence make health care more efficient?
Technology has rarely been able to do so
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The physical internet
Where the internet lives
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Users of the internet can ignore its physical underpinnings. But for technologies like artificial intelligence and the metaverse to work, others need to pay attention, argues Abby Bertics
- The foundations of the cloud: Users of the internet need not think about its physical underpinnings
- Towers of glass and steel: Advances in physical storage and retrieval made the cloud possible
- The edge of tomorrow: The internet got better and faster by moving data closer to users
- The internet and climate change: Data centres improved greatly in energy efficiency as they grew massively larger
- Politics: The physical borders of the digital world
- Starlink: Satellites offer an important alternative to the wired internet
- Securing the cloud’s future: The internet is integrated into virtually every aspect of life
- The physical internet: Sources and acknowledgments