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The boss of one of the UK\u2019s biggest chip companies has claimed AI will be able to find a cure for cancer \u201cin our lifetime\u201d.<\/p>\n
Rene Haas, chief executive of the chip designer Arm Holdings, said that, while modelling how a DNA marker is affected by cancer was currently \u201ctoo complex\u201d a problem for either humans or technology, computers were \u201cgoing to solve it\u201d in the future.<\/p>\n
Haas, who stepped down from the board of British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca in April, told the BBC: \u201cAI is going to \u2026 find a cure for cancer that today you and I, other humans [could] not in our lifetimes. I believe in our lifetime, AI will help cure cancer.<\/p>\n
\u201cModelling how a DNA marker is impacted by cancer \u2013 it\u2019s too complex a problem, not only for humans today, but the computers that run AI.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, going forward, as we feed more and more of the models into these computers, and the computers get more sophisticated to run the models, they\u2019re going to solve it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scientists are already using AI-driven tools in cancer research and testing. Earlier this year, the NHS said more than 4 million patients received faster lung diagnosis thanks to funding in AI-powered X-ray tools.<\/p>\n
Haas added that AI would also pave the way for widespread humanoid robots within the next five years, but that chip shortages were stunting growth in the area.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith artificial intelligence, these robots can see, learn, and essentially be reprogrammed for new tasks,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, in the service industry, the robot that was programmed to make a bed can also learn how to arrange the towels in a room, or clean the dustbins, or whatever you want to go off and do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Arm, which is listed in New York but retains its global headquarters in Cambridge, has about 500 users of its chip designs worldwide, including Apple, Samsung, Qualcomm and Nvidia. The company employs more than 7,000 staff, including about 3,000 in the UK. It is the biggest technology company headquartered in Britain \u2013 valued at $269bn (\u00a3199bn).<\/p>\n
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Sign up to Business Today<\/span><\/p>\n Get set for the working day \u2013 we’ll point you to all the business news and analysis you need every morning<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Haas, who joined Arm in 2013 and became chief executive in 2022, was also recently named chief executive of SoftBank\u2019s international business. The Japanese bank is one of the biggest tech investors in the world, with a stake in ChatGPT maker OpenAI.<\/p>\n Earlier this year Arm also proposed a pay scheme for Haas that could make him a billionaire if he hits targets to turn the chip designer into a trillion-dollar company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The boss of one of the UK\u2019s biggest chip companies has claimed AI will be able to find a cure for cancer \u201cin our lifetime\u201d. Rene Haas, chief executive of the chip designer Arm Holdings, said that, while modelling how a DNA marker is affected by cancer was currently \u201ctoo complex\u201d a problem for either<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1454,654,689,6597,659,20887,25283],"class_list":{"0":"post-52163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-arm","9":"tag-cancer","10":"tag-chief","11":"tag-cure","12":"tag-find","13":"tag-holdings","14":"tag-lifetimes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}