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X Prize Foundation Wants AI Physician On Every Smartphone
kkleiner writes "One of the exciting ideas being tossed around recently at the X Prize Foundation is the creation of an Artificial Intelligence physician that you could access from your smartphone. Want to know if that rash on your leg is poison ivy or smallpox? Take a photo of it with your phone and ask the AI. The possibilities are enormous, especially for the billion plus people around the world who live more than a few hours' walk or drive from the nearest doctor."
This is one of four X Prizes in planning for the future. The other three are for an AI automobile driver, organ generation through stem cell use, and a deep sea submersible capable of exploring the sea floor.
Not smallpox. C4n I plz haz the prize?
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His cellphone said it wasn't cancer.
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Tell me more about X Prize foundation Wants AI Physician On Every Smartphone. /emacs
Six posts in and no comments about your phone saying "please state the nature of your medical emergency".
Incredible.
Perfect. All you'll need is one of those phones with a built in projector.
"Please state the nature of the medical emergency."
"Please state the nature of the medical emergency."
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I've seen evidence that they can do a gyno exam though...
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My first thought was "Please state the nature of the medical emergency."
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> inanimate objects.
Except for the iPhone, which doesn't run Flash, most smart phones can do animation these days.
Actually, this would be perfect for all that hypochondriac that lives more than a few hours walk from a doctor in a third world country, but has a smartphone.
I think you could spend much less money just getting more meat doctors into the bush.
But how gynecologists do you need?
No, but now I'm worried I might have Hypochondria.
has herpes.
Can I borrow your phone? I need to do a colonoscopy.
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Now that you mention it, I think I've got a headache, too...
Brain surgery - it's not rocket science!
It's brain cancer.
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