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A new prescription

Health and AI

A new prescription

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AIs will make health care safer and better, reports Natasha Loder. It may even get cheaper too

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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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Talking things through

Medical AIs with human faces are on their way

The bot will see you now

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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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Where the internet lives

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

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