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AI toilets will scan your shit to diagnose your ailments


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2018 Nov 13, 11:24am   2,258 views  6 comments

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https://www.cnet.com/news/ai-toilets-scan-your-poop-to-diagnose-medical-ailments/

Get ready for smart toilets that'll scan your shit using artificial intelligence to save you a trip to the doctor.

That's what Sanjay Mehrotra, chief executive of memory chipmaker Micron Technology, expects as AI spreads to yet another corner of our lives.

"Medicine is going toward precision medicine and precision health," Mehrotra said at the Techonomy 2018 conference in Half Moon Bay on the Pacific coastline south of San Francisco. "Imagine smart toilets in the future that will be analyzing human shit in real time every day. You don't need to be going to visit a physician every six months. If any sign of disease starts showing up, you'll be able to catch it much faster because of urine analysis and shit analysis."

Medicine already is being changed by AI, technology that uses human-inspired technology called neural networks to spot various types of patterns. AI systems, once trained on large quantities of carefully labeled real-world data, can do things like spot evidence of diabetes in retina imagery and process X-ray scans.

Mehrotra has a big interest in AI. It drives demand for his company's products in everything from handheld smartphones to massive data centers.

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1   Ceffer   2018 Nov 13, 11:28am  

I don't like the skeevy way it keeps staring at my asshole.
2   RWSGFY   2018 Nov 13, 12:03pm  

I heard Elisabeth Holmes is about to join that company in a very important executive role.
3   HeadSet   2018 Nov 13, 1:07pm  

The toilet doc could also detect illegal drug use.
4   Ceffer   2018 Nov 13, 1:34pm  

Don't they need a warrant for spying on your shit?
5   Evan F.   2018 Nov 13, 4:02pm  

zzyzzx says
Imagine smart toilets in the future that will be analyzing human shit in real time every day.


Aw man, I was totally bummed when the actual article quotes him as saying 'human waste.'
6   Ceffer   2018 Nov 13, 5:07pm  

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says
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I thought that under Obama it would just ram a pitchfork up your ass.

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