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Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I’d much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor.
Vinod Khosla
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Vinod Khosla
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 28
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National Capital Region of Delhi
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