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AI, predictive analytics deploy to spot, prevent employee burnout
By Vasily Malyshev | Sep 22, 2023
AI obsoleting human jobs prompts much handwringing but overwork and employee burnout are even more urgent problems. If AI eases the load for overburdened workers, this will thus be a welcome development, states Vasily Malyshev, attorney and founder of HR software maker Intelogos.







AI is changing the game and leading to more biotech breakthroughsEver since the integration of AI into biotech began in earnest, many advances have taken place at a pace that would have seemed impossible even just a few years ago. This promises to speed up drug development, lower costs, and raise efficiency, among other benefits.


AI deployment is changing how business works in every industryMost people interact with various forms of AI every day, though often in unnoticed ways. While there is much talk about AI’s potential, many less glamorous forms of the technology are already making their impact felt and have become indispensable for nearly all businesses.







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AI adjudication, legislation around the corner as ‘legal singularity’ looms
The ‘legal singularity’ refers to the law becoming a solved problem, with machines able to predict the outcome of any potential lawsuit such that no cases ever reach court. Best-selling AI author Calum Chace cites law professor Ben Alarie to describe the implications of all this.
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Implementing Text2SQL is crucial for powering data-driven organizations
As data-driven organizations look for the best ways to power their businesses and remain competitive in an increasingly digital world, this article seeks to help them do so by providing a guide to implementing conversational access to enterprise data using Text2SQL.
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AI's role in protecting patient privacy makes it an unanticipated ally
AI can identify people - potentially compromising their privacy - but it can also de-identify them to help protect it instead. Radiologist Felipe Kitamura demonstrates how ethically conscious AI can be an ally in the fight to protect privacy and individual rights.
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Turning predictive models into prescriptive ones is a meticulous process
This article is part five of the ongoing series: AI Prediction, AI Prescription and Causation in Medicine. When transforming predictive models into prescriptive ones, three important considerations must be considered, explains CUNY Data Science Prof Scott Burk.
New era
ChatGPT comes into its own as used in physical therapy applications
ChatGPT’s strengths and flaws have drawn all eyes, but physical therapy is oft ignored despite being one of its more successful applications, says Vanessa Klotzman, a Software Engineering PhD candidate at the University of California specializing in ML and healthcare informatics.
New era
Chatbot chatter with Google’s Bard yields interesting findings
Intrigued by all the recent chatter about chatbots, I decided to conduct my own investigation, and the outcome was most illuminating. Here is the transcript of my first - and as yet only - exchange with Bard, Google’s ‘creative and helpful collaborator.’ I am R, Bard is B.
New era
Digital payment systems could truly revolutionize healthcare
The smartphone has already transformed life by simplifying social networking and enabling digital payments and receipts of mobile money, ride-hailing, and the delivery of goods, to cite but a few ways. The now-ubiquitous device may well do the same for healthcare in coming years.
New era
AI risk should not be conflated with AGI risk, though both are dangerous
Superintelligence may or may not be imminent, but great cause for concern exists either way, and one should first understand the differences between AI risk and AGI risk, explains AI expert Prof Gary Marcus, co-host of the podcast Humans versus Machines.
Metaverse
Has the concept of the metaverse failed, or is it still too early to tell?
This, the fourth in an article series titled Life and Crime in the Metaverse, examines the metaverse today and the question of whether it will ever reach its potential. Some already view it as a failure, but it could just be a steppingstone to something bigger and better.
Metaverse
The Yuan raises the red flag, wards off incursions by GAI chatbots
As GAIs such as ChatGPT find ever-wider use, this exciting development also risks obsoleting many human functions. ‘Singularitarians’ may hail this step, but The Yuan is committed to keeping humans in the loop, and so offers this cautionary tale for our contributors’ edification.
Metaverse
Life and crime in the metaverse: Trust, trustless, and zero trust
This, the third in an article series titled Life and Crime in the Metaverse, examines the idea of trust, how to engage in online transactions and other interactions in its absence, and what this signifies in the metaverse context.
Metaverse
Metaverse healthcare system applications are based on the discovery layer
In the second part of his series of articles on the Metaverse, AI engineer Douglas Amante takes a look at what the discovery layer of the Metaverse is and how healthcare-related applications fit in as they become an increasingly integral part of people’s lives.
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AI supercharges biomarker-driven clinical trials, raises accuracy, success
Clinical trials are key in testing new treatments and their suitability for widespread use. AI is already making drug discovery cheaper and more efficient, and is now boosting clinical trials’ success. Pharma analyst and BiopharmaTrend.com co-founder Andrii Buvailo reports.
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Generative AI helps data engineering processes, productivity, innovation
Many people are concerned about the potential threat that generative AI poses to their livelihoods, but for data engineering it has already proven to be a boon by raising levels of productivity and innovation and helping data engineers do their jobs better.
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AI-aided diagnosis, treatment bring a ray of hope to ADHD sufferers
ADHD is reluctantly acknowledged in children, but is still stigmatized in adults. Rising numbers of victims now find themselves battling this disorder in today’s digital world, but AI may now offer new glimmers of encouragement, reports AI and Big Data journalist Disha Ganguli.
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Novel biomarker discovery opens a window into learning from DL models
Deep learning models have made great strides since the time when all data samples had to be labeled with ground truths and input manually for such models to execute tasks. They now offer ever greater capabilities and reliability of prognoses and thus much instruction for experts.
Governance
Brazil’s burgeoning inland cities offer rich digital health pickings
The hardships of providing healthcare services in a socioeconomically limited area can be key to unlocking the value of innovative solutions, and Northeast Brazil’s Pernambuco is an informative case study in this regard, says radiologist and healthcare exec Dr Gustavo Meirelles.
Governance
Data handling is a key but often overlooked part of governance
This first in a three-part series on topics of data governance discusses handling - which gains in importance as the reams of data generated, gathered, and analyzed rise. Prof Todd Kelsey of Benedictine University researches applied AI and its emerging business/governance models.
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New blueprint guides Argentina’s first steps toward ethical, responsible AI
AI and Argentina rarely appear in the same headline, but the Inter-American Development Bank and country are crafting a national strategy to safely exploit the tech, reports Gonzalo Benetti Hernández, former project lead at APOSTEAR, an initiative to close the low-income digital divide.
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India’s AI governance trajectory to influence the whole world
India’s AI governance is ever more influential worldwide in step with its status as the fastest-growing major economy. The most populous nation must now decide how much regulation is too much, or it risks stifling innovation, explains ex-Harvard Medical fellow Dr Rohitashva Agrawal.
Pandemic
How different countries leveraged the power of AI to navigate COVID-19
This first part of a series explores how AI helped the world weather COVID-19 and at least partially cushion its impact. While the pandemic exposed many shortcomings, it also shed light on future improvements. Biomedical engineer and med-tech innovator Anjali Rajan presents a glimpse into popular AI applications in pandemic management deployed by five countries.
Pandemic
The COVID-19 Calculator
With the evolving nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, along with seemingly ever-changing recommendations, restrictions, and government guidance, trying to assess one’s own personal level of risk at any given time or location can be confusing. Now, with the development of the COVID-19 calculator, people finally have a tool to cut through all the uncertainty and determine their own risk of infection accurately and flexibly.
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Experts Claim CT Scans For COVID-19 Diagnosis is Flawed
As the novel coronavirus evolved from epidemic to pandemic, early research suggested CT scans provided the best diagnosis for COVID-19. It turns out that the information was flawed. Data scientist and Google Scholar Dan Elton takes a closer look at the studies published.
AI, ML, Big Data supercharge drug discovery, development - Part 2
AI and associated technologies are taking the drug discovery sector by storm by shifting it into warp drive. Technology writer Priya Dialani, host of The Yuan’s Delta Dialog podcast, showcases inspiring examples of intrepid pioneers applying AI and supercharging drug development.
AI will never outwit humans because it is no ‘smarter’ than an abacus is
Ancient Greeks used a marked table - abax - to calculate, but the true ‘abacus’ is a 5,000-year-old Babylonian invention diffused to the rest of the world. On day 13 of our intelligent discovery quest, writing from the East-West trade hub of Mumbai, The Yuan columnist Satyen K. Bordoloi likens seeing smartness in AI to ascribing sentience to an abacus.
Assumptions underlying AI outsmarting humans are flawed
Day six of The Yuan’s voyage of intelligent discovery makes landfall at Massachusetts Bay. Boston was founded in 1630 by Puritan settlers fleeing religious persecution in England and named for a town in the east of the mother country from which many hailed. The Pilgrim Fathers hoped to create a ‘city on a hill’ - a radiant model of a godly society for the world. They saw their flight as a fight between good and evil. ‘Good AI’ may one day ally with humanity to combat ‘evil AI,’ in the view of David H. Freedman, an award-winning science journalist covering health and technology, contributor to Scientific American and Forbes, and author of a book on AI, who calls into question the very assumptions underpinning a time when AI outwits humans.
‘AI ethics’ are doomed to failure - Part 1
As efforts to improve AI governance and devise rules governing its use gain momentum, ‘ethics’ is a buzzword that often pops up in talks of how to make AI more benign. The problem, however, is that the concept of AI ethics lacks substance and thus risks becoming meaningless. How to resolve this seeming paradox? Emmanuel R. Goffi, co-founder and co-director of the Paris-based Global AI Ethics Institute, weighs in.
The next trillion-dollar business: personal AI assistants - part 1
Seldom in the swiftly evolving tech world does one get to say: ‘I told you so.’ With Dall-E, LaMDA, ChatGPT-type AI systems in 2022, The Yuan contributor Satyen K. Bordoloi says just that as - in a three-part series - he outlines how AI personal assistants will storm and transform the world, leading to the next trillion-dollar business.
The Yuan AI 2023: A year when health innovation is set to mature and consolidate
As 2023 gets underway, AI-related innovation in health tech companies is likely to be as affected by war, inflation, energy shortages, and available funding as by tech advances. Consolidation is likely, which may reduce competition, though even if trendy startups and eye-catching but risky ventures struggle, ‘boring’ innovation that often flies under the radar will continue to rack up successes. Harvard fellow Dr Rohitashva Agrawal explains.
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