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Teenage genius creates AI program that diagnoses breast cancer

07-31-2012 • Terrence Aym

The newest teenage genius made her mark by winning the coveted Google Science Fair's grand prize in Palo Alto, California. Brittany Wenger from Sarasota, Florida took the top honors by creating a remarkably effective breast cancer diagnosing app incorporating a sophisticated neural networking program that mimics the way a human brain thinks. In essence, it's an artificial intelligence program that learns and adapts to new data, teaching itself to improve the diagnoses it makes. What she created gets smarter and smarter.

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Reported By Terrence Aym

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