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The world may still be a long way from futuristic, superintelligent sci-fi droids — or even a tough-talking metal maid like The Jetsons‘ Rosey the Robot — but the boundless applications of artificial intelligence are growing by the day.
On Wednesday, AI researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas announced they’ve developed a way to determine the severity of skin cancer with a deep learning AI. The announcement comes less than a day after a Korean firm raised $44 million to roll out human-like chatbots also created with deep learning tech.
Needless to say, reproducing authentic customer service interactions and assessing a cancer prognosis are two wildly different things. Here’s how each unique feat is accomplished with the help of AI:
