A Robot Just Passed the Medical Licensing Exam
January 2, 2018 | Terry Sharrer
Let’s start off the year with a bang. Engineers in Hefei City, China-based Iflyteck have built an artificial intelligence robot that passed the medical licensing exam with a high score and in short time. “According to Chinese news reports, more than half of the exam questions are derived from patient cases, so the robot could not rely solely on memorization and searches. Instead, Xiaoyi had to be able to develop the capacity to reason. The researchers used the clinical and diagnostic knowledge of medical professionals to tweak the robot’s algorithms.” That’s some tweak!! The robot’s name, Xiaoyi, means “little doctor.” MORE
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