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While Yelp might be seen as the de facto platform when it comes to restaurant reviews, Google has also implemented something similar into Google Maps where users can leave behind reviews and photos of the places that they have visited. Now it looks like Google is stepping things up by making its reviews a bit more comprehensive.

According to a report from Ausdroid, it appears that Google Maps is now displaying additional prompts for users who are uploading photos of food at the cafes that they visit. Like we said, prior to this users could already upload photos of their food and experience, but now these additional prompts are basically asking users to rate their orders and to name them, just in case other users might want to order them in the future.

Alternatively it can also be used so that users can avoid a particular dish, for example due to it not tasting as good, or pointing out that certain foods might come with ingredients that might be allergic to some, such as containing nuts of any kind. Google is also attempting to use its photo recognition feature as based on the photo you’ve uploaded, Google will then offer some autocomplete suggestions, which according to the folks at Ausdroid did a pretty decent job at identifying for some food items.

Following the naming of the dish, users are then asked to give it a thumbs up or thumbs down. It sounds like it could be a potentially useful feature so if you do contribute to Google Maps on occasion, it could be worth checking out.

Image credit – Ausdroid

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Sometimes with medical diagnosis, it can come too late where upon detection, it might already be too late for the patient to be cured. However in recent times we’ve started to see how AI can be used to help improve on diagnosis, where some researchers have developed AI that can detect things like bowel cancer in minutes.

Now over in the UK, it seems that AI for use in the medical industry is getting a boost by the government, where Prime Minister Theresa May will pledge millions of pounds of government funding to help develop AI that is capable of diagnosing brain cancer and other chronic diseases at an early stage, hoping that by detecting them early, it will result in avoidable deaths.

In a speech made by the Prime Minister, she was quoted as saying, “Late diagnosis of otherwise treatable illnesses is one of the biggest causes of avoidable deaths. The development of smart technologies to analyse great quantities of data quickly and with a higher degree of accuracy than is possible by human beings, opens up a whole new field of medical research and gives us a new weapon in our armoury in the fight against disease.”

It is thought that with the use of AI, it could in theory prevent 22,000 deaths from cancer each year by 2033. However it seems that there are some concerns raised by this funding, as it would allow commercial firms to access NHS data for profit, leading some to question the ethics surrounding data sharing, privacy, and so on.

UK Government To Pledge Millions To Develop AI That Can Diagnose Brain Cancer , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

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