A team of researchers in the UK say their AI-powered stethoscope can detect three different heart conditions in just 15 seconds.

It's also, they readily admit, horrendously inaccurate.

Placed over the chest, the "smart" gizmo analyzes the rhythms of the heartbeat and blood flow that're undetectable to the human ear, while also performing a quick electrocardiogram, or ECG, which is a test that gauges your heart's electrical activity.

Then, all that info is packaged and sent "securely" to the cloud, where it gets analyzed by AI algorithms. However many heartbeats later, a test result is sent to your doctor's smartphone.

Its creators, a team of researchers at Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, say that this could save lives by detecting heart conditions ear

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