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This is part of a series of stories examining how artificial intelligence is disrupting industries. Can artificial intelligence (AI) make health care smarter? The technology sector is investing heavily in new applications for AI in medicine, in the hope that algorithms can bring new capabilities to medical diagnoses and patient care. One of the areas where artificial intelligence is emerging as a valuable tool is radiology, which offers an early study in the benefits of AI in medicine, and its potential impact on the healthcare workforce. Anytime a patient breaks a bone, sprains an ankle or hits their head, the radiology industry goes to work, using x-rays, CT scanners, MRI machines and other tools and techniques to take a closer look inside the human body without the need for surgery.

When 38-year-old Li Bencai, owner of a wool-processing factory in China's Hebei Province, traveled to the pastures of Xinjiang Autonomous Region this summer to buy wool, he borrowed money from online lender MyBank, an offshoot of Alibaba Group Holding. Li borrowed 250,000 yuan ($35,000) of the 1 million yuan he needed to buy 50 tons of wool at an annual interest rate of 12%. Though not cheap, Li says he can still make a profit after he receives payments from apparel and textile companies after shipping the wool this month. The mobile banking units of e-commerce giant Alibaba and internet conglomerate Tencent Holdings are changing the landscape of financial services in China, lending to more than 100 million people so far, including those in rural areas and microbusiness owners. Farmers and microbusinesses -- which employ no more than nine people -- that previously had trouble securing loans from conventional banks are reaching out to Alibaba and Tencent for help.

In Padang, West Sumatra, San Francisco-based non-profit organisation Rainforest Connection is mounting used cellphones on trees to detect sounds that originate from chainsaws or trucks belonging to illegal loggers. Rangers, villagers and law enforcement agencies are then alerted to the illegal activities and can take action. In Singapore, DBS Bank is predicting when employees will quit, so management can intervene and retain staff. In Taipei, Taiwan's performing arts centre National Theatre and Concert Hall is using technology to provide automatic sub-titling so that people with hearing disabilities can also enjoy performances. What unites the three cities in their cutting-edge exploits is a new frontier technology known as artificial intelligence (AI).

Researchers have developed a machine-learning method that can pinpoint a dangerous heart condition, new research shows. With 90 percent accuracy, researchers were able to detect atrial fibrillation using artificial intelligence-guided EKG, according to a study published Friday in The Lancet. The method even worked when no symptoms were present in patients. "When people come in with a stroke, we really want to know if they had atrial fibrillation in the days before the stroke, because it guides the treatment," Paul Friedman, chair of the at Mayo Clinic's Department of Cardiovascular Medicine and study senior author, said in a news release. "Blood thinners are very effective for preventing another stroke in people with atrial fibrillation. But for those without atrial fibrillation, using blood thinners increases the risk of bleeding without substantial benefit."

Have you ever been worried about a pet that went missing in a big city? The chances of finding that pet are daunting, to say the least. Now, think of a society where uploading a single photo could help identify your dog. Recently, a private Chinese company launched a so-called "dog-face recognition" platform offering those possibilities, CGTN.com reported. As every human has distinct fingerprints, every dog has unique identifiable features on their noses.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced £250 million in funding to establish an NHS artificial intelligence lab – marking his third funding pledge to the health service in as many days. NHS England will receive the multi-million-pound funding, which Johnson says could help revolutionise patient care and medical research. Health Secretary Matt Hancock praised the potential of deploying AI in the NHS, saying it had "enormous power" to enhance care, save lives and to allow doctors to spend more time with patients. Due to the NHS' less than stellar record with technology, health experts have warned that any new system will require "robust evaluation" to avoid it having a negative impact on the healthcare system. If implemented without high safety standards and training, they say it could cause more harm than good.

A residency program that allows fourth-generation Japanese descendants living overseas to work in the country has been rarely used due to strict requirements such as language proficiency and age. Under the program introduced in July last year, only 43 people qualified as of June 17, compared with the annual cap of 4,000 set by the Immigration Services Agency. The agency has started discussions to ease the requirements in a bid to increase the number of qualified people. Before the program's introduction, fourth-generation Japanese descendants overseas permitted to stay in Japan were limited to unmarried and underage children of third-generation Japanese with permanent residency status. In addition, they needed to be living with their parents.

You won't find violent video game displays at Walmart anymore. Late last week the company announced it is removing them from stores. This came after President Donald Trump, commenting on the Dayton and El Paso shootings, complained from the White House about "gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace" and surround troubled youth with a culture that celebrates violence. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, meanwhile, told Fox News he has always felt violent games present "a problem for future generations and others." Would someone please point out to our leaders -- neither of whom cited actual evidence -- that they are more than a decade behind the scientific consensus?

The field of AI (artificial intelligence), to those on the outside, must appear to be an orderly gathering of intellectuals collaborating at the cutting edge of technology. The reality is a bit different. Last year, Elon Musk made headlines by describing AI as a "fundamental risk to the existence of civilization." More recently, Google CEO Eric Schmidt suggested that the answer to fears about AI was to police it and offered the example of finding a way to police the misuse of the telephone because of its possible misuse by some individuals with bad intentions rather than not inventing the phone at all. One of the biggest misconceptions surrounding AI is that most individuals think that humanity is close to it, although in fact the reality is quite different. Although a great deal has been learned about how to engineer certain narrow problems like speech recognition in ways which could not have been imagined five or ten years ago, the idea of having machines that can reason about the world in the ways that human-beings can is still implausible.