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In the news | CBS News
Microsoft vice president on the future of AI and medicine
Peter Lee spoke to CBS News chief medical correspondent, Dr. Jon LaPook, about the promise of AI to reducing tasks that are burdening healthcare professionals so they can focus on their patients.
In the news | Nature
AI tools are designing entirely new proteins that could transform medicine
Digital art techniques can now devise custom, working biomolecules on demand. Read about recent advances in protein design, including MSR’s research into protein structure generation via folding diffusion.
In the news | Microsoft News Centre UK
How AI is helping to shrink waiting times for NHS cancer patients
The National Health Service at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge is now able to plan radiotherapy treatments faster than in the past, thanks to AI advances that are cutting wait times. As the NHS approaches its 75th birthday, it continues to…
In the news | BBC Newsnight
AI cuts treatment time for cancer radiotherapy
A new type of artificial-intelligence technology that cuts the time cancer patients must wait before starting radiotherapy is to be offered at cost price to all NHS trusts in England. It helps doctors calculate where to direct the therapeutic radiation…
Accounting for past imaging studies: Enhancing radiology AI and reporting
| Ozan Oktay, Javier Alvarez-Valle, and Matthew Lungren
The use of self-supervision from image-text pairs has been a key enabler in the development of scalable and flexible vision-language AI models in not only general domains but also in biomedical domains such as radiology. The goal in the radiology…
AI and the Future of Health
| Desney Tan
Read about some of our research team’s work to make healthcare more data-driven, predictive, and precise – ultimately, empowering every person on the planet to live a healthier future.
AI Frontiers: AI for health and the future of research with Peter Lee
| Peter Lee and Ashley Llorens
The second episode of AI Frontiers features Peter Lee, head of Microsoft Research. Lee was among a group within Microsoft to have early access to GPT-4 for evaluation and experimentation. Here, he applies his philosophy of tackling research from what…
In the news | New England Journal of Medicine
Benefits, Limits, and Risks of GPT-4 as an AI Chatbot for Medicine
Chatbots are computer programs with which one can have a conversation. In this article, the authors describe how the GPT-4 chatbot, which has been given a general education, could affect the practice of medicine.
In the news | Flagship Pioneering
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Healthcare and Biotech
AI has a massive role to play in the big leaps ahead for biotech and human health from enabling us to explore biology in ways never before possible to speeding up the pace at which we discover and deliver new…