A new company backed by Lance Armstrong just raised $4 million dollars to track your stool and urine using artificial intelligence.
  • SkavarSharraddas@gehirneimer.de
    561·
    4 days ago

    Poop jokes and big tech’s data hunger aside, this seems to me one of the more useful applications of AI: Checking for early signs of medical problems.

    • phant@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      4 days ago

      I have Crohns. This would help monitor disease activity for sure. And having more data could help understand triggers better.

    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      4 days ago

      During covid, cities were testing the sewage to get an idea how many people had covid. We should have like a lever to tell the toilet who is shitting, and it could route the waste to a personal testing chamber.

      • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        7·
        4 days ago

        We should have like a lever to tell the toilet who is shitting

        Or just an extra upward facing camera.

        Kids in 2050: “Everybody knows the myth that no two buttholes look alike is just an urban legend to convince you to reverse image search your butthole against the TOTO leak of 2034.”

      • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        Covid is still a pandemic and sewage is still being tested to monitor for spikes of cases in countries which have stopped funding rapid antigen tests