SoftBank to launch AI-driven medical services in bid to tackle cancer

But! One size does not fit all. There are too many variances in cancer patients to rely on AI alone.

One things for sure, who will own the gene code, and more importantly, what will they do with it? Sell it to insurance companies? Will all the people using genetic tests for fun and interest as part of knowing where they came from be swept up in all this? Companies aren’t always there to do the moral thing. There is awesome potential for this tech. But just as insurance companies discriminated against people’s life styles in the 80s, 90s they could (if not legislated against) use our genetic to either deny coverage or refuse a claim.

on top of that there is the risk of them identifying a cure for certain disease based on your genetics, we as individuals are supposed to give up things for the greater good of society “freely” but The same cannot be said about a company. The cells donated by Henrietta Lacks are still used to this day 90 years later in medical research all over the world and commercially sold. She never received a cent for her part in the research.So yes it’s great but we need legislation to protect people.

I don't know how successful this will be but I hope in my heart that is. Cancer sucks.

Maybe some automated recognition tasks can be given to 'AI', scanning x-ray photos or gene sequences and such. But in general it is destined to fail. First, all results have to be checked by humans again, which will, when regarding shrinking resources in workforce , decrease the planned potential significantly. And second, the algorithms are intrinsically not reliable, which means there are regularly also lots of false positive and false negative outputs and some completely useless and irrational hallucination outputs to be expected. At best I would give it, if ever really applied, the role of a third opinion.