Google’s AI Trained to “See” Mutations

Artificial intelligence has a way of inspiring wonder and uneasiness at the same time, particularly when it shows that it can outperform humans while hiding exactly how it goes about its business. The latest group of humans to be mysteriously surpassed by artificial intelligence, or AI, consists of pathologists—specifically, pathologists tasked with inspecting whole-slide images of lung tissue and determining lung cancer type.An AI platform developed by Google can analyze images of patient