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2. Who Will Be Your Next Doctor?

James Hendler and Alice M. Mulvehill2

(1)Albany, New York, USA

(2)Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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As we’ve just explored, a revolution in artificial intelligence has been occurring, powered by factors including massive amounts of data, faster machines with much more storage and processing capability, and web-based information collection. This is leading to new capabilities that are starting to impact information technologies across the board. We see new capabilities in the search engines and social ...

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