Google’s Effort to Prevent Blindness Shows AI Challenges
Company’s AI can detect a condition that causes blindness in diabetes patients, but in rural India it doesn’t always work
MADURAI, India—Alphabet Inc.’s Google has developed artificial intelligence that can detect a condition that causes blindness in diabetic patients, though tests in India demonstrate the challenges of transferring such technology from the lab to the doctor’s office.
The technology giant’s Automated Retinal Disease Assessment tool is trained...