This is one of my favourite stories about AI.
Yes, as it develops, AI has many times proven its drawbacks, failure and limitations. This story on the other hand shows that clever thinking, using AI straightforwardly to enhance food production can have unexpectedly impactful results on global health.
“BakeryScan’s Legacy
This story on its own is inspirational; a team of software developers with their livelihoods on the line putting all they have into a seemingly impossible task, and coming out successful. Yet, the story doesn’t end here.
In 2017, a Doctor working for Kyoto’s Louis Pasteur Center for Medical Research saw an ad for BakeryScan. After some thinking he came to a quite funny realization. He thought that the bakery items being scanned by the AI had a remarkable similarity to cancer cells that he had been studying. So, he decided to reach out to Brain Co. and see if they would be interested in testing to see if BakeryScan may be able to detect cancerous cells under a microscope…”
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