Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld spoke to Dr. John Danaher, President, Clinical Solutions, Elsevier, to know what role artificial intelligence plays in healthcare and how Elsevier plans to improve diagnostic outcomes by way of AI and machine learning. Clinical errors and role of AI and health analytics There are three examples. The first one is making an initial diagnosis. What can be achieved with artificial intelligence, machine learning and actual language processing is the ability to assist doctors to make more accurate initial diagnosis. Second is the work being done in the area of image recognition with radiology and pathology.

Despite the come-hitherness of the title Robot Sex, a couple of these'I-need-a-gift-for-a-geek' books are the sort where you may want to be out of town when the recipient calls you, depressed, with their feedback. The most fun of the lot is Thomas S Mullaney's The Chinese Typewriter: A History. It's easy to forget that the ubiquitous single-shift typewriter keyboard, designed specifically for our relatively simple 26-letter alphabet and limited use of capital letters (2.5 percent to five percent of text), had competitors when it was originally designed. A typewriter for the Chinese language, which has some 47,000 characters but no alphabet or syllabic structure, seemed so absurd in 1900 that people published cartoons lampooning the idea (which Mullaney reprints). Reading Mullaney sends you looking for more details of those typewriter designs not taken.

You may have heard the terms before but do you know what they mean? In fact, they are becoming a new form of governance that will affect all of our lives. We're joined by past guest and friend John Danaher, who has been working in this space for a while, to talk about the Algocracy and Transhumanism Project. The Project now includes a podcast, so we also talk a bit of podcasting with John. Algorithms are even now defining the kind of life that is available to each and every one of us.

You may have heard the terms before but do you know what they mean? In fact, they are becoming a new form of governance that will affect all of our lives. We're joined by past guest and friend John Danaher, who has been working in this space for a while, to talk about the Algocracy and Transhumanism Project. The Project now includes a podcast, so we also talk a bit of podcasting with John. Algorithms are even now defining the kind of life that is available to each and every one of us.