AI Health Frontier - Issue 2

Picture a bulky, wired-up ultrasound machine, condensed to the size of an electric razor that can plug in to your phone, and fit into your pocket. And better yet, it costs only $2,000.

A team of scientists has successfully trained a new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to make accurate predictions regarding cognitive decline leading to Alzheimer’s disease.

Purdue University researchers have developed a unique approach that allows experienced surgeons and physicians around the world to help less-experienced doctors in war zones, natural disasters and in rural areas perform complicated procedures.

Artificial intelligence could be a useful tool for predicting how well people at high risk of psychosis or with recent onset depression will function socially in the future, an international research study has found.

While Africa has improved its consumption of digital content its production of digital items has not kept pace.

If you keep hearing about artificial intelligence but aren’t quite sure what it means or how it works, you’re not alone. What’s the difference between AI and machine learning?

This is the weekend roundup of The WorldPost, of which Nathan Gardels is the editor in chief.