Introduction
Everything All at Once
Deep Patient doesn’t know that being knocked on the head can make us humans dizzy or that diabetics shouldn’t eat five-pound Toblerone bars in one sitting. It doesn’t even know that the arm bone is connected to the wrist bone. All it knows is what researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York fed it in 2015: the medical records of seven hundred thousand patients as discombobulated data, with no skeleton of understanding to hang it all on. Yet after analyzing the relationships among these blind bits, not only was Deep Patient able to diagnose the likelihood of individual patients developing particular diseases, it was in some instances more accurate than human physicians, including about some diseases ...
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