What machine learning and AI can do for human health

The machines are here, and they're smarter than ever. Scientists have proven that machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) can perform some tasks better than humans. Where health and neuroscience are concerned, one doctor says this is "a good thing." By using advanced scanners and AI, a team of scientists from research labs all across the United States created the Human Connectome Project (HCP), the most detailed map of the human brain's circuitry. The AI programs were able to learn 100 new regions of the brain, while monitoring data from 210 adult test subjects.