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72. What’s Stopping Us From Curing Rare Diseases?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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The Role of Computers and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Artificial intelligence is being used in medicine, credit card companies and Spotify. GOREV's Andrew Keen says computers are good at pattern matching and doing things very quickly. In the emergency room, for example, a computer algorithm can detect strokes faster than a radiologist ever could.

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