Google has declared merging between its company DeepMind and
National Health Service (NHS). In a recent blog post, the search engine giant
has announced its objective to cure blindness with its Artificial Intelligence
technology.
DeepMind is a British artificial intelligence company which
was acquired by Google in 2014. Google DeepMind has developed various and
accurate algorithms to study various aspects and behaviors of humans. With the
help of those processes, machines can comprehend the psychological dimensions
of a person. Google will expand the usage of DeepMind’s algorithms in curing
the eye diseases.
Google has already started utilizing these skills of
DeepMind to analyze over 1 million samples of a human eye collected by NHS.
Patients who are suffering from health related problems like
diabetes are likely to encounter eye degeneration in near future. One of the
officials of DeepMind has said that it is still a challenging task for surgeons
and doctors to analyze the sample quickly and meet the patient and started
medication. He also added that no computers could accurately determine what is
going on the human eye.
The current project which is initiated by Google DeepMind
and NHS is right now limited to the local NHS hospital of United Kingdom.
Professor Sir Peng Tee Khaw has said that since the eye diseases of the world
may be doubled in the next 30 to 40 years, we must find a way to cure the eye
disease through technology.
Not only Google but its parent company Alphabet too is
investing its resources, techniques, and finances towards the welfare of people
in health related issues. They are one of the keen organizations who are
working to cure and diagnosis of the various diseases.
Google is already a giant company in its segment, its
expansion and collaboration of the different segments with its technology seems
a humane approach towards society. They are not limiting their skills towards
the improvisations in IT-sector only.
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