Thanks to the Undiagnosed Diseases Network, hundreds of patients with previously undiagnosed diseases have been given hope for a cure. One child, Elizabeth Nagorniak, had been far behind on her developmental milestones for reasons doctors couldn’t explain. With the help of UDN, however, her family now knows the root of her problems; she had a variant of Smith-Kingsmore Syndrome. After receiving treatment, she’s now learning new skills weekly ー a huge improvement over only learning one skill yearly.
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Societal Issues
AI Predicts Crime A Week In Advance With 90 Per Cent Accuracy
An artificial intelligence model built by Ishanu Chattopadhyay and his colleagues analysed crime data in Chicago from 2014 to 2016 and managed to predict future levels of crime down to the nearest 300 metres, a week before they actually happened. While extremely useful, this artificial intelligence has been shown to expose racial prejudice in law enforcement. Hopefully, as the study’s data and methodology have been made available for others to evaluate, these prejudices can be avoided in the next iteration. Read full article here
Merv
August 15, 2022
