An automated machine learning COVID-19 pipeline
Researcher Parisa Naraei details how AI chatbots glean better data and attain fuller analyses, faster insights, and precision answers in the war against COVID-19 and relates the nuts and bolts of crafting these conversational AI apps.
Technology: a public health tool and sword
AI and technology in general have long been a double-edged sword, both praised for their benefits to society and vilified for their shortcomings and any harm they may cause. Public health expert Jennifer Dunphy takes a look at strategies to maximize technology’s benefits while limiting its harmful effects like excessive screen time.
How will medicine deal with AI’s mistakes?
When it comes to AI in the fields of medicine and healthcare, the focus is often on the advancements and improvements that it has enabled, but just as crucial are the mistakes that occur due to flawed or limited AI. Rectifying such errors could help save the lives of millions, thus rendering it a crucially important task.
How the myth of control is shaping the ethics of AI
AI is not a means to control nature, which cannot be mastered, any more than AI itself can. Thus, the only control humans have is over us, to protect us from our own hubris, asserts Emmanuel R. Goffi, co-founder and co-director of the Global AI Ethics Institute.
AI restores ‘right to speech’
Google CEO Sundar Pichai argues in this thought-provoking article that the ‘right to speech’ is effectively denied to those who suffer from speech impediments. Early diagnosis is key to helping kids overcome such disabilities, and this is where AI can come into its own, he notes.
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Sundar Pichai is CEO of Google and Alphabet.
Emmanuel R. Goffi is the co-founder and co-director of the Global AI Ethics Institute in Paris. He is a philosopher of technology focusing on ethics applied to AI as addressed through cultural perspectives.
Gary Marcus is a scientist, best-selling author, and serial entrepreneur. He is the founder of Robust.AI and Geometric.AI, acquired by Uber. He is well-known for his challenges to contemporary AI, anticipating many of the current problems decades in advance, and for his research in human language development.
An Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at NYU, he is the author of five books, Rebooting AI (with Ernest Davis), The Algebraic Mind, Kluge, The Birth of the Mind, and Guitar Zero, and has often contributed to The New Yorker, Wired, and The New York Times.His most recent book, co-authored with Ernest Davis, Rebooting AI, is one of Forbes’s 7 Must Read Books in AI.
Parisa Naraei is an expert in cognitive science and its applications in healthcare. As an active member of the Canadian Institute for Health Information’s management team, she has been instrumental in driving forward emerging digital, AI & cloud tech in the healthcare industry.
Nigel Morris-Cotterill is a lawyer turned financial crime risk and compliance specialist with a special interest in fighting money laundering and the funding of future crime including terrorism. He is also a prolific writer and blogger.
Rohitashva Agrawal is a physician who holds a Fellowship in Digital Health Innovations from Harvard Medical School. He is passionate about access to quality healthcare and expressing opinions on impactful technologies. Besides clinical medicine, he has worked in consulting, non-profit, academia and government across the US, India and Africa at different levels.
David H. Freedman is an award-winning science journalist covering health and technology. He is a regular contributor to Scientific America, Forbes, and Technology Review. He founded and edits a website covering the global healthcare industry and is the author of a book on AI.
Jennifer Dunphy is senior vice president for one of Southern California’s largest independent physician associations. She helps solve the major public health problems that affect her organization’s diverse membership. These include challenges such as housing stability, food insecurity and behavioral health issues.