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The End of Disease

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Re: The End of Disease

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As it relates to biomedicine, the AI community is increasingly toeing the "snake oil" line. Yes, machine learning/AI is powerful, but pie in the sky predictions such as the "end of disease" probably hurt more than help in the long run.

Especially given that the world's deadliest infectious disease (TB) already has a treatment. TB deaths today are caused by wealth inequality, not our insufficient medical knowledge.

It would be nice to see discussion of this in the article, but it focuses instead on the limitations of AI.

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