A concerning yet exciting day in AI

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Jack Shields
June 30, 2023

Welcome back to The Daily Update! Today’s news is both concerning and exciting — here’s everything on deck:

🗞️ The Latest in AI: Chinese government eyes AI global supremacy

🤖 AI Tool of the Day: Find leads faster with Double

📸 Business Spotlight: New AI can detect early signs of lung cancer that doctors can’t see

🗞️ The Latest in AI: Chinese government eyes AI global supremacy

China is fully embracing the power of generative AI and is determined to emerge from the ongoing AI race as the world’s leading power. On Wednesday the Chinese government said that Beijing will aggressively ramp up the push for AI global supremacy.

The People’s Daily, the mouthpiece newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, published an article on Monday listing daily office work, pharmaceuticals and meteorology as areas where China could benefit from AI.

In a new report by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, the U.S. was found to be the current global leader in industrial might and national security technology. The report warns that the AI revolution could provide China with an opportunity to stake a claim as a leader in techno-security (innovations that can be applied to national security). It urges the U.S. to take action to secure its stronger position or risk China catching up in the near future.

The Biden administration has reportedly reached out to China about collaborating on international norms for AI in weapons systems — a potential area of cooperation and competition.

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Original spreadsheet

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📸 Business Spotlight: New AI can detect early signs of lung cancer that doctors can’t see

Sybil is a new AI tool developed by researchers in Boston that can detect early signs of lung cancer years before doctors would find it on a CT scan. One study shows that Sybil accurately predicts whether a person will develop lung cancer in the next year 86% to 94% of the time.

Experts say the tool could be a huge leap forward in the early detection of lung cancer, the third most common cancer in the U.S. and the leading cause of cancer death.

These CT scans from the same patient were taken two years apart. The scan on the left shows what Sybil detected in the area highlighted in red. The scan on the right shows what radiologists saw two years later. (MIT & Mass General)

Sybil looks for signs of where cancer is most likely to appear, so doctors know where to look and can spot it as early on as possible. It relies on a single CT scan, analyzing the image for signs of abnormal growth and other patterns or nuisances that scientists don’t fully understand yet.

One of the researchers working on Sybil, Dr. Florian Fintelmann, sees a future in which AI tools and radiologists collaborate to make important treatment decisions.

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Jack

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