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#13 Pedro Domingos: The Rise of The Machines

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Machine Learning Is Very Desirable in Medicine

machines are remarkably better than human doctors at doing all types of medical diagnosis, not just from extrays, but from mono symptoms. And part of the reason is that algitms are very consistent, whereas human beings are very inconsistent. So i think for things like this, machine learning is very desir thing to use. In the particular case of medicine, it's not used more already because, of course, the doctors are also the gate keepers of the system and they're not very interesting in replacing themselves of their job that they like best by machines. But, you know, eventually it is going to happen.

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