Google AI software can predict when patients will die

Google's new artificial intelligence algorithm can predict the probability of a patient dying more accurately than a doctor can, Bloomberg reported. The conclusion was arrived at after woman with late-stage breast cancer checked into a hospital with fluid in her lungs and got a radiology scan done. The hospital computer analysed her vitals and predicted a 9.3 percent chance of her passing away during her stay there.

The same set of vitals was then run through Google's new algorithm, which processed a total of 175,639 data points and predicted a 19.9 percent chance of the patient dying. Sure enough, the woman passed away after a few days.

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