Finland’s grand AI experiment
HELSINKI — Jaana Partanen is not your typical AI programming geek. Until a year ago, the 59-year-old dentist from the Finnish town of Mikkeli had no idea what to make of terms like "machine learning" or "neural networks." Now, Partanen spends her evenings learning the basics of coding and she is thinking about how to apply artificial intelligence to her job, either to help write up medical summaries or perform orthodontics. "I can see it [artificial intelligence] is already here, and it serves us — very much actually," she said, adding that following the latest developments in the field has become a hobby.
^ADJ: This is very innovative, I hope we pickup some learning from this in NZ
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