Bunuel wrote:
There are new concerns being raised about the use of supercomputers in health care, where artificial intelligence is used to establish which skin lesions are cancerous, to identify early-stage cancer in blood,
predict heart disease, determine what compounds could help extend healthy life spans, and more.
(A) predict heart disease, determine what compounds could help extend healthy life spans, and more
(B) to predict heart disease, determining what compounds could help extend healthy life spans
(C) to predict heart disease, and to determine what compounds could help extend healthy life spans, and more
(D) to predict heart disease, to determine what compounds could help extend healthy life spans, and more
(E) predict heart disease, determine what compounds could help extend healthy life spans
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/opinion/artificial-intelligence-black-box.htmlThere’s particular concern about this in health care, where A.I. is used to classify which skin lesions are cancerous,
to identify very early-stage cancer from blood, to predict heart disease, to determine what compounds in people and animals could extend healthy life spans and more. But these fears about the implications of black box are misplaced. A.I. is no less transparent than the way in which doctors have always worked — and in many cases it represents an improvement, augmenting what hospitals can do for patients and the entire health care system. After all, the black box in A.I. isn’t a new problem due to new tech: Human intelligence itself is — and always has been — a black box.
VERITAS PREP OFFICIAL SOLUTION:
When you see a series of elements linked together with commas (and decision points for how those elements are linked), you typically need to focus on parallelism. A few obvious decision points in this problem are between “predict” and “to predict” and between “determine” and “to determine” or “determining” so start there. The series in this sentence is established before the underlined portion with “artificial intelligence is used to establish…., to identify….,” so the elements that follow must also be in the infinitive form. This allows you to immediately eliminate (A) and (E) as “predict” is incorrect.
Similarly, (B) can be removed as the participial phrase “determining…” does not logically link to what precedes it and even if it were logical, there would have to be an “and” before “to predict” to show that it was the last element in the series.
For choosing between (C) and (D), you have to figure out where the series ends. With the “and more” at the end of this series, that is the final element and having another “and” as you see in (C) is incorrect. For instance, the following would be correct: The versatile wood tool is used to create joints, to bore holes, to carve artistic elements, and more. It would be clearly incorrect to say: The versatile wood tool is used to create joints, to bore holes, AND to carve artistic elements, AND more. The word “and” should only be used once at the end of the series.
The correct answer is (D).
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