“The process of extracting systemic health insights by analyzing ocular data, including retinal images with AI, is referred to as oculomics. We define prescreening as a preliminary assessment of disease or potential disease in asymptomatic individuals. Healthcare From the Eye (Topcon Healthcare Inc) prescreening is utilization of retinal images to identify ocular or systemic disease or potential disease in asymptomatic individuals in a coordinated care system that includes eye care professionals (ECPs), primary care professionals (PCPs), and specialty care professionals using secure and responsible technology. It offers the potential for rapid, cost-effective, and accessible prescreening for a wide range of devastating diseases. Such … Read More
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How the “opinionated” chatbots destroyed AI’s potential, and how we can fix it “Recently, after an update that was supposed to make ChatGPT “better at guiding conversations toward productive outcomes,” according to release notes from OpenAI, the bot couldn’t stop telling users how brilliant their bad ideas were. ChatGPT reportedly told one person that their plan to sell literal “shit on a stick” was “not just smart—it’s genius.” Many more examples cropped up, and OpenAI rolled back the product in response, explaining in a blog post that “the update we removed was overly flattering or agreeable—often described as sycophantic.” The … Read More
Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd speaking to the New York Times’ Lulu Garcia-Navarro about injecting artificial intelligence into dating apps: “[Garcia-Navarro] How are you imagining A.I. functioning in this next iteration of the app? [Herd] Let’s say we could train A.I. on thousands of what we perceive as great profiles, and the A.I. can get so sophisticated at understanding: “Wow, this person has a thoughtful bio. This person has photos that are not blurry. They’re not all group photos. They’re not wearing sunglasses. We can see who they are clearly and we understand that they took time.” The A.I. can … Read More
“[David Wallace-Wells] Were you surprised by the cruelty? [Bill Gates] The reductions to U.S.A.I.D. are stunning. I thought there’d be, like, a 20 percent cut. Instead, right now, it’s like an 80 percent cut. And yes, I did not expect that. I don’t think anybody expected that. Nobody expected the executive branch to cut PEPFAR or polio money without the involvement of Congress. What’s going on with H.I.V. research and trial networks, I didn’t expect that either. We will do our best to get these things changed. I will be an advocate. But those are real headwinds. And what’s Congress … Read More
“The chief risk of developing general AI [artificial intelligence] too rapidly is misalignment—when an AI system’s objectives diverge from human values. The AI research community has identified several considerations that increase misalignment risk, illustrated in the Box using neurology-specific examples. These illustrative cases might seem straightforward to detect and correct. However, if we succeed in developing a general AI that far exceeds human intelligence, the stakes become higher and intervention more difficult. In neurology, superintelligent AI could become essential for tasks like diagnosing conditions, personalizing treatments, managing hospitals, and making critical decisions. If a superintelligent AI conceals misalignment, however, it … Read More
Hearing aids and cochlear implants have been getting better for years, but a new type of device—eyeglasses that display real-time speech transcription on their lenses—are a game-changing breakthrough. Excerpt – free voice-to-text app on his [David Howorth, a person with multiple causes of hearing loss] phone, Google Live Transcribe & Notification. When someone speaks to him, he can read what they’re saying on the screen and respond as if he’d heard it. He belongs to a weekly lunch group with half a dozen men in their seventies and eighties, and when they get together he puts his phone in the … Read More
The Luddites lost the fight to save their livelihoods. As the threat of artificial intelligence looms, can we do any better? Excerpt – The Luddites rejected the moral and political authority of a system that had abandoned long-held principles of fairness, quality, and mutual obligation. Under feudalism and mercantile capitalism, Britain’s rigid class structure placed the gentry at the top, merchants and professionals (such as doctors, parsons, and lawyers) in the middle, and the vast majority in the “lower orders.” Yet this social hierarchy was accompanied by labor-market regulations—both formal and informal—that provided some measure of reciprocity. Skilled trades were … Read More
“Primary care doctors now spend, on average, two hours a day filling out patients’ electronic health records. From 2009 to 2018, EHR length has increased by 60 percent. And yet most of this work is simply documentation, not problem-solving or reasoning. Why take doctors away from their patients or hire other teams of humans, like medical scribes, to transcribe and enter all this data, when AI can now do it instead? [..] they listen in on the conversation between a patient and physician, create a transcript, then organize the information from the transcript into the standard format doctors use, generating … Read More