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Five Minutes of AI — Issue #119

Why is Probability Important for Machine Learning and using AI to spot breast cancer?

Louis-François Bouchard
2 min readDec 12, 2022

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🎓 Why is Probability Important for Machine Learning?

Among many fields of mathematics, probability theory is often considered the bedrock of Machine Learning. But why not just rely on classical software engineering methods? This is a great article going in-depth into the question: “Why Probabilities?”.

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🆕 Using artificial intelligence to spot breast cancer

A real-world application of AI! As screening programs for early detection are rare, a company in India has developed a cheaper, non-invasive test that uses thermal imaging and AI.

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Louis-François Bouchard
Louis-François Bouchard

Written by Louis-François Bouchard

I try to make Artificial Intelligence accessible to everyone. Ex-PhD student, AI Research Scientist, and YouTube (What’s AI). https://www.louisbouchard.ai/

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