Dr. Lily Peng is one of the many minds working to apply Google Brain to medicine. She is part of a special group of researchers focused solely on medical applications for AI. She says her goal isn’t to replace doctors, but to build a system that will help overworked physicians in the developing world examine many more patients over the course of a day. “We want to increase access to care everywhere,” says Peng, who imagines a future where doctors work alongside AI to examine medical images to detect all sorts of ailments. Prior to Google, Peng cofounded Nano Precision Medical, a startup focused on developing tiny implantable capsules that automatically dispense life-saving medicines to patients.

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