Innovation

Artificial sepsis. It knows.

From sepsis care to heart attacks to shock and disease – artificial intelligence and machine learning are helping to save human life.

04 April 2019

AI can go bad. This is a fact. One proven by researchers at MIT who named their AI Norman after the psychopathic owner of the Bates Motel. Lovely. It’s also the first ever psychopathic AI, made as such by extended exposure to the darkest corners of the internet. And Reddit. It’s enough to make most people put down their keyboards and book a flight to the nearest moon. But before all ye who enter here abandon hope, there’s AI doing the precise opposite, thanks to the human mind. It’s AI that’s effectively changing the way we save lives.

The first, also with MIT – not suspicious at all – and Massachusetts General Hospital is a predictive model designed to help reduce the risk of sepsis. This innocent sounding word is responsible for an estimated six million deaths every year, worldwide, and is risky because it’s hard to diagnose and manage.

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