How a robot passed China's medical exam

[The Caspian Hare]

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2120724/how-robot-passed-chinas-medical-licensing-exam

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The first time round in a practice run, Xiaoyi barely scored 100 out of a possible 600 points in China’s medical licensing exam.

It was a disappointing result – the pass mark is 360 – but Xiaoyi then knuckled down, absorbing the contents of dozens of medical textbooks, 2 million medical records, and 400,000 articles to develop the kind of reasoning needed to be a doctor, The Beijing News reported on the weekend.

Xiaoyi took the real test in August and, according to the results released earlier this month, romped it in with a score of 456.

In doing so, Xiaoyi, meaning “Little Doctor”, became the first artificial intelligence robot to pass the exam, taking a fraction of the allowed time to complete the test, according to iFlyTek which developed the machine with Tsinghua University.

 

 

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That is scary.