Using new technology and old books to combat disease

Additionally, the collaboration between Google Brain and Google Books has uncovered an enormous source of unexamined datasets for further study. “This project has opened up opportunities to extract more data of this nature for machine learning analysis — not just chemical, but environmental, astronomical, geological…the list goes on,” Ben says. “There’s so much information in Google Books just waiting to be found, and so many more books yet to be scanned – this project is just the first page of a very long story.” The team’s hope is that, by using Google Books to discover what lies beneath, we could unlock answers to some of the challenges facing people every day.

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