AI will help find cure for cancer ‘within our lifetimes’, says Arm Holdings chief | Arm | The Guardian
AI will help find cure for cancer ‘within our lifetimes’, says Arm Holdings chief | Arm | The Guardian
摘要: As computers that run AI get more sophisticated they will eventually find a cancer cure, said Arm’s Rene Haas.
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As computers that run AI get more sophisticated they will eventually find a cancer cure, said Arm’s Rene Haas.
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As computers that run AI get more sophisticated they will eventually find a cancer cure, said Arm’s Rene Haas.
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AI will help find cure for cancer ‘within our lifetimes’, says Arm Holdings chief
Rene Haas also claims artificial intelligence could pave way for widespread use of humanoid robots within five years
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The boss of one of the UK’s biggest chip companies has claimed AI will be able to find a cure for cancer “in our lifetime”.
Rene Haas, chief executive of the chip designer
Holdings, said that, while modelling how a DNA marker is affected by cancer was currently “too complex” a problem for either humans or technology, computers were “going to solve it” in the future.
Haas, who stepped down from the board of British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca in April, told the BBC: “AI is going to … find a cure for cancer that today you and I, other humans [could] not in our lifetimes. I believe in our lifetime, AI will help cure cancer.
“Modelling how a DNA marker is impacted by cancer – it’s too complex a problem, not only for humans today, but the computers that run AI.
“However, going forward, as we feed more and more of the models into these computers, and the computers get more sophisticated to run the models, they’re going to solve it.”
Scientists are already using
AI-driven tools in cancer research
and testing. Earlier this year, the NHS said more than 4 million patients received faster lung diagnosis thanks to funding in AI-powered X-ray tools.
Haas added that AI would also pave the way for widespread
humanoid robots
within the next five years, but that chip shortages were stunting growth in the area.
“With artificial intelligence, these robots can see, learn, and essentially be reprogrammed for new tasks,” he said.