This week, a team of scientists unveiled a deep learning model that can predict risk
A joint laboratory made a predictoravailable online, which allowed clinical staff around the world to calculate the likelihood of patients developing critical illness within 5, 10 and 30 days using ten clinical variables.
While the main focus of the projectfocused on COVID-19, the lab's long-term mission is to "use big data and AI for screening, prevention and control, and warning of outbreaks, respiratory and chest diseases."
Tencent AI Lab is the tech giant's attemptstay afloat in the race to advance technology along with lucrative businesses like video games and social media. Launched in 2016, the research department focuses on computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing and machine learning with a team of 70 scientists and 300 engineers.
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