AI will help find cure for cancer ‘within our lifetimes’, says Arm Holdings chief
The boss of one of the UK’s biggest chip companies has claimed AI will be able to find a cure for cancer “in our lifetime”. Rene Haas, chief executive of the chip designer Arm Holdings, said that, while modelling how a DNA marker is affected by cancer was currently “too complex” a problem for either humans or technology, computers were “going to solve it” in the future. Haas told the BBC: “AI is going to … find a cure for cancer that today you and I, other humans [could] not in our lifetimes. I believe in our li…
AI-powered X-ray tools funded in the NHS enabled faster lung diagnosis for more than 4 million patients.
Current AI and computers cannot yet model how a DNA marker is impacted by cancer due to complexity.
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