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[deleted] t1_j7a9yoe wrote

Limited attention on this sub and only 10-20 years... hmm.

I think the impacts of machine learning on medicine while significantly talked about are not really understood to be as rapidly game changing as people realize.

Words human medicine is about to get turbocharged by Machine learning and I guess people kind of like are only so interested in medicine because it's generally like about horrible s*** like cancer and heart disease.

I think that will be both incredibly impactful and it will tend to get underrated because people only like talking about horrible diseases so much.

Like we're going to be surprised when all of a sudden there really is a cure for cancer or heart disease we're going to be like what I just thought that that was the same b******* already every other time that wasn't really going to happen.

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Five_Decades t1_j7dkfr9 wrote

Yup. There are about 60,000 known diseases, each with endless research papers and risk factors tied to them. Machines will be able to navigate the millions of papers and books to find the most likely cause and cure of each disease. Medicine will be in a new golden age by mid century

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