Linda in Cairo
When cancer
finally is conquered and a memorial to that milestone erected on the Mall it
should contain tributes to two kinds of mice – the traditional furry kind that
have died in the billions to provide us with all sorts of useful data, and the
kind we use to manipulate our computers.
As this article shows
computer
algorithms might prove to be an important weapon. The idea is simple. Just assemble a truly massive data set
containing information about people with cancer and those without, then turn
loose machine learning – AI – to identify statistically significant
correlations, to point cancer researchers in the right direction. Sounds simple, eh? Well, promising, maybe, but don’t hold your
breath. Many more of the furry kind of
mouse must die before we can build that memorial on the Mall. But I retain hope.
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