Tag: Artificial Intelligence

[ad_1] Amazon, in August, began integrating use of artificial intelligence for its reviews. (Photo: Bloomberg) Spencer Soper Shopping on Amazon.com Inc. has long entailed scrolling through pages and pages of often redundant customer feedback. In an effort to make the task less onerous, the company in August began using artificial intelligence to convert billions of reviews into brief summaries consisting of a few sentences apiece.    As is often true with generative AI, the results aren’t perfect. In some cases, the summaries provide an inaccurate description of a product. In others, they exaggerate negative feedback. This ... Read more

[ad_1] Doctors can be slow to talk about the end of the traditional medical road. When they’ve been trying to manage a life-threatening illness or keep a terminal patient alive, bringing up palliative or hospice care can feel like giving up. But these options can radically improve quality of life, or the end of life, when traditional medicine hasn’t helped enough—if patients and their doctors figure it out in time. Some providers just don’t recognize when the end is near until it’s very near, says Mihir Kamdar, a doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston who heads clinical health at ... Read more