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DeepMind Starts To Show How AI Can Be Used To Solve Scientific Problems

DeepMind has shown that its artificial intelligence systems can be useful in the real world after it was announced as the winner of a protein folding contest in Cancun on Sunday.

UK Data Watchdog Monitors Google’s Absorption Of DeepMind App Used By NHS

The Information Commissioner’s Office told TechCrunch that it’s watching the situation.

DeepMind Is Handing Over DeepMind Health To Google

DeepMind Health will become part of Google Health in a move that raises fresh questions about the privacy of sensitive patient medical records.

Tencent Aims To Train AI To Spot Parkinson’s In 3 Minutes

Tencent, a Chinese tech giant, has teamed up with London medical firm Medopad on a new AI system that can diagnose Parkinson’s.

DeepMind Losses Grew To $368 Million In 2017

DeepMind has turned out to be an expensive acquisition for Google, which paid a reported £400 million for the company in 2014.

Google DeepMind Given Access To Mammograms Of 30,000 Women By Japanese Hospital

DeepMind Health is teaming up with a Japanese hospital on a machine learning project that could see AI used to detect breast cancer in mammograms. The organisation says it’s important to use mammograms from different countries to reduce the chance of b…

Facebook Aims To Make MRI Scans 10x Faster With NYU

Facebook and New York University want to train an AI to reconstruct MRI images so that patients don’t have to spend as long in MRI scanners.

Google DeepMind’s AI Can Detect 50 Eye Disease Conditions And Save Sight

The London-based AI lab is focusing on applying its algorithms to areas like healthcare, robotics, and climate change research.

Viagra Inventor Raises $10m To Find Medicines For Rare Diseases With AI

Dr David Brown’s latest company is called Healx and it’s using machine learning to see how existing drugs can be used to treat rare diseases.