Artificial Intelligence to scan organs, predict death

So you think that robots are best suited for menial jobs? You couldn't be far from wrong. The research in artificial intelligence (AI) has moved to an all-new level with scientists at the University of Adelaide in Australia announcing that robots can predict mortality. By analysing CT scans from 48 patients, the deep learning algorithms could predict whether they would die within five years with 69% accuracy, which is broadly similar to the scores from human diagnosticians, the paper says. It will open up new avenues for the application of AI in medical image analysis, offering hope for early detection of serious illness that requires specific medical interventions.