Another AI Advancement

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MyLot Exclusive #189 A lot of people are still uneasy about our turning just about everything over to AI (Artificial Intelligence) and I can understand that concern a little bit. To the extent that we don't want huge corporations under our present system of government to have untold amounts of additional power. But I firmly believe that we will repair our defective politics (Impeach 45!) before it becomes too big of an issue (Feel The Bern! Go AOC!). But let's forget all that for now and take a look at one of the most recent AI advances, cancer prediction (Link At The Bottom). Google has tested its' lung cancer predicting AI against six board-certified radiologists in examining 45,856 chest CT screens and the AI found 5% more cancer cases than the radiologists. And it produced 11% fewer false positive results. Five percent doesn't sound like much and it's really not. Unless you have lung cancer and would rather have it found very early when it's easy to treat and the survivability rate is magnitudes higher. In that case, five percent is a huge number. And it's just the beginning. Someday soon, it will be right 90% and then 100% of the time. But it doesn't stop with cancer screening. Someday, all medical care will be done by AI and it will do it far better than people can. Even very good doctors make mistakes, machines don't (OK, I can hear a million of you screaming things like, "My computer crashed fives just today! What do you mean machines don't make mistakes???----And sorry, but your computer doesn't have AI and unless you're at work, it's probably not maintained by professionals and if you are at work, it's not maintained by AI and pro's who know that the machines are involved in life and death work). I wish the whole thing were moving faster but AI does seem to be going at a pretty good pace. Google trained its AI to predict lung cancer