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Remember what happened they tried to predict the flu. https://www.wired.com/2015/10/can-learn-epic-failure-google-...

In https://www.kaggle.com/c/diabetic-retinopathy-detection actually ML algo did better than humans. Yet it will take time for apply these widely.

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Those are two entirely unrelated methods. One worked, one failed. One is a sort of "wisdom of the crowd" algorithm (as in human crowds) and it failed after initially showing promise (essentially it worked until someone told the crowd), one is machine learning from images.

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