Black Box: episode 4 – Bing and I - podcast

This week we are revisiting the Black Box series. This episode was first broadcast on 14 March 2024.Two stories about the way artificial intelligence could make the world better – and is already doing so. In Montana, when Lee Johnson discovered his wife, Yokie, had cancer, he turned to AI – and was surprised by the answers he got. Meanwhile, in Massachusetts, Prof Regina Barzilay’s experience with cancer has led her to build an AI system that can detect the disease years before a human can

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