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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 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.
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.
What do doctors really need to know about ethical considerations of AI?
AI use poses an battery of ethical questions, although trying to address them is daunting even for professionals who work with the tech every day. AI and ML engineer Sahika Betul Yayli lays out practical guidelines for reference in this first in a two-part series.
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.
Projections for digital health investments in 2023 show interesting trends
Digital health technology, which includes wearables like the Apple Watch, has taken off in recent years, making it an attractive option for investors. Moh Noori, founder and CEO of ScriptChain Health, takes a look at current trends and where things might be headed next.
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.
Inclusion, accessibility are indispensable for healthtech’s success
Healthtech is now more than a fad. Apps and wearables are just the start: Healthtech can potentially improve health for a huge range of people, but equal access is key, says Marketing and Commercialization Prof Marzena Nieroda of the UCL Global Business School for Health, London.
Scientists wield single-cell sequencing, ML data reduction to combat cancer
Single-cell RNA sequencing is a mighty weapon in cancer research that maps cell types and states, both individually and in clusters. ML then pares down the ensuing reams of data for ease of analysis. ML genetic and healthcare data specialist Dr Sara Moein explains their workings.
To see or not to see, that is the question of AI in radiology
AI should not make key decisions unsupervised. It does subtly prompt human decisions and this often goes unnoticed in radiology, notes Neuroradiology Prof Felipe Kitamura, Stanford AIMI scholar, Mayo Clinic visiting professor, and RSNA Machine Learning Steering Committee member.
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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.
Optimization
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.
Optimization
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.
Optimization
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.
Optimization
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.
Governance
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.
Governance
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.
Pandemic
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.
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Community
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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Sep 21, 2023
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.
|
Sep 11, 2023
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.
|
Sep 06, 2023
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.
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Sep 01, 2023
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.
|
Jun 08, 2023
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.
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May 16, 2023
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.
|
May 12, 2023
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.
|
May 10, 2023
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.
|
Aug 07, 2023
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.
|
Jun 09, 2023
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.
|
Jun 02, 2023
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.
|
May 30, 2023
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.
|
Sep 20, 2023
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.
|
Sep 05, 2023
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.
|
Aug 24, 2023
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.
|
Aug 01, 2023
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.
|
Aug 31, 2023
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.
|
Aug 23, 2023
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.
|
Aug 02, 2023
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.
|
May 29, 2023
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.
|
Sep 18, 2023
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.
|
May 16, 2022
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.
|
Jan 10, 2022
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