Doctor Hazel, an AI aimed at skin cancer detection, is latest in a long line

Engineers participating in a hackathon last weekend demonstrated an artificial intelligence that they say could someday detect cancerous moles, TechCrunch reports. Although the program is currently in its infancy, the team hopes that enough user submissions could allow Doctor Hazel to predict skin cancer with at least 90 percent accuracy. After one day and thousands of image downloads, the AI is identifying cancer at an 85 percent success rate, the team said during a presentation at TechCrunch Disrupt's San Francisco 2017 hackathon. However, the team has launched a beta and is inviting users to submit their own photos to improve Doctor Hazel's performance. "There's a huge problem in getting AI data for medicine … no one wants to share," Mike Borozdin, developer of Doctor Hazel, told TechCrunch.