In December, Climate Change AI would host a packed gathering at NeurIPS, the yearly AI research conference, a day after another group held a different well-attended workshop down the hall in a room the size of a football field about machine learning for health care research. The talks and the posters lining the walls showcased a plethora of applications, including the use of computer vision to detect the early, near-imperceptible stages of diseases like Alzheimer’s in medical image scans, and the use of speech recognition to help patients with vocal impediments to communicate more easily. The
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