New Google app uses AI to help find answers to common skin conditions

Notice a spot on your skin that wasn't there before? There's an app for that.

Or - there's about to be.

Engineers at Google have developed a tool the company says can identify 288 skin, hair and nail conditions.

Here's how it works: take three photos from different angles of your problem area. Then answer a few questions the tool will ask, and an artificial intelligence algorithm will provide a likely diagnosis.

Google claims the AI uses similar techniques to what technology currently uses to detect eye diseases and lung cancer in c-t scans.

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