Giving AI penalties to get better diagnoses

Anyone waiting for the results of a medical test knows the anxious question: "Will my life change completely when I know?" And the relief if you test negative. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly deployed to predict life-threatening diseases. But there remains a big challenge in getting the machine learning (ML) algorithms to be precise enough--specifically, in getting the algorithms to correctly diagnose if someone is sick. Machine learning (ML) is the branch of AI where algorithms learn from datasets and get smarter in the process.