Are you for or against artificial intelligence in medicine? With the rise of machine learning in healthcare this is becoming more common question. When confronted with this question, MIT’s Max Tegmark responds, “Are you for or against fire?” Fire of course can keep us warm but can also be mishandled by arsonists and others with nefarious intent. The problem is our ... Continue Reading about Artificial Intelligence in Medicine – Are You For or Against?
Doctors as an Endangered Species | Quick Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Physician
Dr. Clay Johnston, Dean of the UT Dell Medical School recently riffed on artificial intelligence and doctors as an endangered species. It plays on our insecurities over artificial intelligence while recognizing that technology could be the very thing that saves us. A few rapid fire thoughts on some of his points. Artificial intelligence as our asteroid ... Continue Reading about Doctors as an Endangered Species | Quick Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Physician
Carbon Health – 6 Ways it is Reinventing Healthcare and Revolutionizing the Clinical Encounter
We’re excited to have Carbon Health as our featured sponsor this week. The ideas expressed, however, are shaped and written on my own. You don’t have to look far to find doctors and patients at odds with what happens in a clinic. Repeated questions, unfriendly EHRs and poor communication add up to a miserable experience for everyone. It seems way the information ... Continue Reading about Carbon Health – 6 Ways it is Reinventing Healthcare and Revolutionizing the Clinical Encounter
Human Contact as Evidence of a Problem
Clay Shirky’s recent Twitter post about the changing role of the human contact is telling: We are beginning to normalize automated transactions. And encounters with smart machines, be it by voice or web, are emerging as the way we interface with businesses. They are technologically primitive at this point, but they are priming the pump for smarter machine ... Continue Reading about Human Contact as Evidence of a Problem
Life 3.0 – Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Book review | Life 3.0 - Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark, Knopf (2017). If there’s one thing poised to change health care in the near future it’s artificial intelligence (AI). While at a flexion point our understanding of its boundaries and potential remain limited. Among physicians, for example, we can’t seem to get beyond the ... Continue Reading about Life 3.0 – Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence – How to Future Proof Your Job
Note: For a full review of Life 3.0 - Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence click through to the full 33 charts review. MIT’s Max Tegmark in his new book, Life 3.0 - Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, discusses how young workers can future proof for artificial intelligence. Recent forecasts for when various jobs will get taken over by ... Continue Reading about Artificial Intelligence – How to Future Proof Your Job