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Steeper than expected

Artificial intelligence and its limits

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After years of hype, many people feel AI has failed to deliver, says Tim Cross

Artificial intelligence and its limits

An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in

After years of hype, many people feel AI has failed to deliver, says Tim Cross

Data

For AI, data are harder to come by than you think

When in doubt, roll your own

The business world

Businesses are finding AI hard to adopt

Not every company is an internet giant

Brain scan

The potential and the pitfalls of medical AI

A pioneering ophthalmologist highlights plenty of both

Computing hardware

The cost of training machines is becoming a problem

Increased complexity and competition are part of it

Automobiles

Driverless cars show the limits of today’s AI

They, and many other such systems, still struggle to handle the unexpected

The future

Humans will add to AI’s limitations

It will slow progress even more, but another AI winter is unlikely

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Medicine gets personal

Personalised medicine

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Treatments can increasingly be tailored to the genes, environments and activities that make every patient different, says Natasha Loder