How a Young Woman Can Use Computers to Predict Cervical Smears

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A young woman called laura o sullivan developed a system that could look at cervical smears and predict whether they were abnormal or not. It did so more accurately than a trained human doctor. This was laura's first programming project; she hadn't really programmed before. She said, oh, i think i went to a cod in camp when i was 14. And here she is aged 17, writing her first bit of soft ware, and this is what it can do. A story of one of the drivers of expodentiality in our economy.

We are entering the Exponential Age. Between faster computers, better software and bigger data, ours is the first era in human history in which technology is constantly accelerating. Azeem Azhar - writer, technologist, and creator of the acclaimed Exponential View newsletter - understands this shift better than anyone. Technology, he argues, is developing at an increasing, exponential rate. But human society - from our businesses to our political institutions - can only ever adapt at a slower, incremental pace. The result is an 'exponential gap', between the power of new technology and our ability to keep up. In this week's episode he speaks to Ros Urwin about this new era and what we we should do about it. To buy the book click here: https://amzn.to/3i8YieM

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