An AI-Powered Chatbot Is Helping Doctors Diagnose Patients

Chatbots powered by AI are all the rage nowadays. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, all are developing chatbots that can not only decipher speech, but also understand the meaning behind those words. Chinese search giant Baidu wants to take that all one step further. The company just unveiled Melody, an AI-powered chatbot tailored for the medical field. The bot is able to chat with patients, getting them to reveal symptoms, and then transmits that data to doctors, along with a partial analysis.