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The Middle East and North Africa present unique opportunities for AI startups
By Ahmed Zahlan | Dec 07, 2024
Much of the attention surrounding artificial intelligence is focused on China and America, and so the Middle East and North Africa are sometimes overlooked. However, the region holds many unique opportunities that merit further investigation, stresses Fulbright Scholar Ahmed Zahlan.
A guide for professors to integrate generative AI in teaching
Few industries have felt the disruption of GenAI more than education - and this is true for both teaching and learning. Teachers and professors must therefore learn to take advantage of its positive aspects while mitigating negative ones, argues Fulbright Scholar Ahmed Zahlan.
Quantum tech in healthcare is pushing boundaries and improving lives
Most people have only a limited understanding of quantum tech, and even those with more expertise usually do not associate it with healthcare applications. This field is deserving of more attention, however, as it becomes more impactful, argues Fulbright Scholar Ahmed Zahlan.
AI threatens academic integrity, so it must be used in teaching
The rise of GenAI threatens academic integrity, but shunning it entirely would be misguided. Instead, it should be used in teaching to encourage responsible use, argues Alessia Paccagnini, Associate Professor at the University College Dublin’s Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School.
AI may be default ‘kingmaker’ this year in biggest-ever worldwide elections
While AI’s presence in elections has some benefits, such as connecting with voters, these are vastly outweighed by drawbacks such as widespread disinformation. Governments and AI companies are also not doing enough to combat the problem, argues The Yuan’s contributor Ben Armour.
AI offers a lasting solution to children with milk allergies
Milk allergies have caused great inconvenience and discomfort for many people over the years, and this is often an ailment that they must put up with for their entire lives. Now, however, AI is changing what is possible and offering hope that a cure is within reach at last.
The Yuan is proud to announce a partnership with Fast Company ChinaAs The Yuan continues its global expansion and seeks to reach new audiences, its partnership with Fast Company China represents a big step forward in terms of publishing Chinese language content and appealing to more readers in China as well as other Chinese speakers.
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.
Stay tuned for The Yuan’s brain science themed webinar this July!
The Yuan recently ran a three-week series of articles from April 1 to April 19, with topics examining the intersection of neuroscience and AI. The series was a great success and will be followed up in July by a webinar featuring some of the series’ outstanding contributors.
Neurosymbolic AI injects symbolic reasoning to give DL ‘the human touch’
Neurosymbolic AI is a novel method that empowers DL to reason symbolically, while also bolstering its already renowned ability to ingest and digest reams of data. SEO content creator Ava Addams maps a new route toward more intuitive AI, and forecasts a sea change in the offing.
Advantis Medical Imaging fuels innovation to redefine healthcare with AI
The Yuan recently spoke with Zoi Giavri, co-founder, president and chief product officer of leading medical software developer Advantis Medical Imaging to talk advances in healthcare. Eleni Natsi, a journalist focused on the transformative impact of AI, lets us in on their tête-à-tête.
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Optimization
Are AI solutions in healthcare cost-effective and financially viable?
A common complaint about AI in healthcare is that the tech is inefficient and too costly for widespread implementation. Radiologist and medical executive Gustavo Meirelles takes a closer look at how AI is already transforming the industry, as well as its promise going forward.
Optimization
Genome of Greece is a paradigm for large-scale genomic medicine projects
The integration of genomics is crucial for healthcare to become more personalized, and the Genome of Greece initiative is helping do just that, writes Pharmacogenomics and Pharmaceutical Biotech Prof George P. Patrinos, of the University of Patras, Greece.
Optimization
Data, infrastructure barriers hamper AI's cure of Africa's healthcare woes
Africa will gain the most from AI’s activation in healthcare, but the road to fulfilling this vision is a rocky one. Fulbright Scholar Ahmed Zahlan, who is pursuing his PhD in AI healthcare startups, charts the path the second most populous continent must take to reach this goal.
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AI’s impact on the music business is great, but greatly underappreciated
Many people are au courant with the transformative effect AI is having on the healthcare, banking, and robotics industries, but far fewer are aware of its splash in the realm of music. AI expert Snigdha Bose probes this stealth phenomenon and signals its future import.
Governance
AI may be default ‘kingmaker’ this year in biggest-ever worldwide elections
While AI’s presence in elections has some benefits, such as connecting with voters, these are vastly outweighed by drawbacks such as widespread disinformation. Governments and AI companies are also not doing enough to combat the problem, argues The Yuan’s contributor Ben Armour.
Governance
Having a growth mindset is an integral part of effective AI ethics
The adoption of effective AI ethics requires one to adapt to change, take risks, make mistakes, learn from failure, and venture outside of one’s comfort zone, argues Dr Frank Lee Harper, Jr, AI thought leader and provost and vice chancellor at Cambridge Corporate University.
Governance
If AI governance is to be successful, AI assurance must play a key role
AI assurance verifies whether or not AI systems comply with legal rules and regulations. While a legal framework governing the use of AI makes sense, such a regime must be enforceable to make a real difference, argues AI writer and entrepreneur Ana Chubinidze.
Governance
Prof Robert Skidelsky shares thoughts on Keynes, AI, and the future of work
The Yuan recently sat down with Robert Skidelsky, a member of the British House of Lords and Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at Warwick University, for his thoughts on some of the world’s most pressing issues, including the future of AI, work, government policy, and more.
Cognition
Companies should do more to encourage employees to be excited about AI
As AI continues driving wholesale change, ordinary employees and others who might lose out naturally resist such upheaval. The situation is not all bad, however, and perceptions might change if workers became more aware of reasons to be excited, argues strategy Prof Timo Vuori.
Cognition
An AI apocalypse may seem inevitable, but can still be prevented
Fears of being rendered obsolete by machines or other new tech have lurked for hundreds of years, but are now resurfacing as AI becomes ever more sophisticated. Such jitters proved overblown in the past, but could this time be different? Prof Robert Skidelsky weighs in.
Cognition
Creator tweaks LLM ‘Hallucination Detector’ to better flag confabulations
A ‘Hallucination Detector’ is 60% spot-on at flagging LLM phantasms, says AI and ML researcher Lloyd Watts, PhD, founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist at Neocortix and Audience, who is redoubling his efforts to fine tune the program (republished with permission from a LinkedIn post).
Cognition
Looking ahead, OpenAI’s got 9.9 problems, and Twitch ain’t one
While late 2022 and 2023 were heady times for ChatGPT’s creator OpenAI, the AI darling faces many serious challenges in 2024 as its momentum slows and cracks in its business model become more apparent, argues best-selling AI author, entrepreneur, and professor Gary Marcus.
Post-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.
Post-pandemic
Lessons learned during the pandemic must never be forgotten
As the COVID-19 pandemic fades into the past, people are eager to put it behind them and move on with their lives. However, the lessons taught by the pandemic must be remembered to prevent such a disaster from happening again.
Post-pandemic
Deep learning is a great tool for automatically detecting COVID-19
Intelligent methods help medical professionals detect and diagnose COVID-19 more quickly and so expedite treatment for patients suffering from severe cases, as ear, nose, and throat specialist Dr Mehrnaz Ataei and genetic and healthcare ML developer Dr Sara Moein succinctly explain.
Post-pandemic
A viable path out of the pandemic is crucial
Most people now act as if COVID-19 is over, yet the virus remains active and dangerous. The limited ability of current vaccines and drugs to prevent infection or treat long-COVID means much more must be done before the threat posed by this pathogen is truly a thing of the past.
Game-changers
AI threatens academic integrity, so it must be used in teaching
The rise of GenAI threatens academic integrity, but shunning it entirely would be misguided. Instead, it should be used in teaching to encourage responsible use, argues Alessia Paccagnini, Associate Professor at the University College Dublin’s Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School.
Game-changers
AI offers a lasting solution to children with milk allergies
Milk allergies have caused great inconvenience and discomfort for many people over the years, and this is often an ailment that they must put up with for their entire lives. Now, however, AI is changing what is possible and offering hope that a cure is within reach at last.
Game-changers
Posos and Microsoft transform prescriptions with Dragon speech recognition
Posos, an AI startup in the medical field, is looking to make healthcare more efficient and effective for both clinicians and patients, saving time and expenses for all. To that end, it is using Microsoft’s speech recognition technology to power innovation and deliver results.
Game-changers
Women’s healthcare must be taken more seriously to overcome health inequality
Men and women’s healthcare differs in many respects, and while this should not affect the quality of care, in practice women too often do not get the services they deserve. AI expert and technical writer Priya Dialani illustrates why this is the case in an interview with healthcare entrepreneur Sarah M. Worthy.
Emerging markets
AI in DubAI: Dubai is becoming a premier global center for advanced tech
Dubai, one of the world’s most advanced and international cities, also happens to contain ‘AI’ in its name - which is quite fitting given the importance of this futuristic metropolis as a global tech hub. Digital transformation and AI expert Semih Kumluk has more.
Emerging markets
Innovation and Collaboration Take Center Stage at Reuters Pharma Conference 2024
The Reuters pharma conference is a central platform for pharma executives, patient advocacy groups, and other healthcare experts to share insights, exchange ideas, and be informed about evolving trends within the pharma industry, reports The Yuan contributor Oladimeji Ewumi.
Emerging markets
Warren Buffett strikes a gloomy note over AI at his company’s annual confab
Warren Buffett, the éminence grise of investment, took the occasion of his company shareholders’ meeting to air his views on AI - part upbeat and part desponding. Though concededly no AI maven, Buffet’s remarks made waves nonetheless as he voiced his hopes and fears for the tech.
Emerging markets
Market power is permanent even with intense technological competition
Contrary to what one might think, the competition and ceaseless innovation that are hallmarks of today’s globalized, digital, hyperconnected world are actually increasing and entrenching market power for large, established players, argues Stanford economics prof Mordecai Kurz.
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Community
Are AI solutions in healthcare cost-effective and financially viable?
A common complaint about AI in healthcare is that the tech is inefficient and too costly for widespread implementation. Radiologist and medical executive Gustavo Meirelles takes a closer look at how AI is already transforming the industry, as well as its promise going forward.
|
Jul 25, 2024
Genome of Greece is a paradigm for large-scale genomic medicine projects
The integration of genomics is crucial for healthcare to become more personalized, and the Genome of Greece initiative is helping do just that, writes Pharmacogenomics and Pharmaceutical Biotech Prof George P. Patrinos, of the University of Patras, Greece.
|
May 15, 2024
Data, infrastructure barriers hamper AI's cure of Africa's healthcare woes
Africa will gain the most from AI’s activation in healthcare, but the road to fulfilling this vision is a rocky one. Fulbright Scholar Ahmed Zahlan, who is pursuing his PhD in AI healthcare startups, charts the path the second most populous continent must take to reach this goal.
|
May 08, 2024
AI’s impact on the music business is great, but greatly underappreciated
Many people are au courant with the transformative effect AI is having on the healthcare, banking, and robotics industries, but far fewer are aware of its splash in the realm of music. AI expert Snigdha Bose probes this stealth phenomenon and signals its future import.
|
Apr 24, 2024
AI may be default ‘kingmaker’ this year in biggest-ever worldwide elections
While AI’s presence in elections has some benefits, such as connecting with voters, these are vastly outweighed by drawbacks such as widespread disinformation. Governments and AI companies are also not doing enough to combat the problem, argues The Yuan’s contributor Ben Armour.
|
Nov 07, 2024
Having a growth mindset is an integral part of effective AI ethics
The adoption of effective AI ethics requires one to adapt to change, take risks, make mistakes, learn from failure, and venture outside of one’s comfort zone, argues Dr Frank Lee Harper, Jr, AI thought leader and provost and vice chancellor at Cambridge Corporate University.
|
Sep 27, 2024
If AI governance is to be successful, AI assurance must play a key role
AI assurance verifies whether or not AI systems comply with legal rules and regulations. While a legal framework governing the use of AI makes sense, such a regime must be enforceable to make a real difference, argues AI writer and entrepreneur Ana Chubinidze.
|
Aug 30, 2024
Prof Robert Skidelsky shares thoughts on Keynes, AI, and the future of work
The Yuan recently sat down with Robert Skidelsky, a member of the British House of Lords and Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at Warwick University, for his thoughts on some of the world’s most pressing issues, including the future of AI, work, government policy, and more.
|
May 28, 2024
Companies should do more to encourage employees to be excited about AI
As AI continues driving wholesale change, ordinary employees and others who might lose out naturally resist such upheaval. The situation is not all bad, however, and perceptions might change if workers became more aware of reasons to be excited, argues strategy Prof Timo Vuori.
|
May 31, 2024
An AI apocalypse may seem inevitable, but can still be prevented
Fears of being rendered obsolete by machines or other new tech have lurked for hundreds of years, but are now resurfacing as AI becomes ever more sophisticated. Such jitters proved overblown in the past, but could this time be different? Prof Robert Skidelsky weighs in.
|
May 29, 2024
Creator tweaks LLM ‘Hallucination Detector’ to better flag confabulations
A ‘Hallucination Detector’ is 60% spot-on at flagging LLM phantasms, says AI and ML researcher Lloyd Watts, PhD, founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist at Neocortix and Audience, who is redoubling his efforts to fine tune the program (republished with permission from a LinkedIn post).
|
May 17, 2024
Looking ahead, OpenAI’s got 9.9 problems, and Twitch ain’t one
While late 2022 and 2023 were heady times for ChatGPT’s creator OpenAI, the AI darling faces many serious challenges in 2024 as its momentum slows and cracks in its business model become more apparent, argues best-selling AI author, entrepreneur, and professor Gary Marcus.
|
Apr 23, 2024
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
Lessons learned during the pandemic must never be forgotten
As the COVID-19 pandemic fades into the past, people are eager to put it behind them and move on with their lives. However, the lessons taught by the pandemic must be remembered to prevent such a disaster from happening again.
|
Jun 06, 2023
Deep learning is a great tool for automatically detecting COVID-19
Intelligent methods help medical professionals detect and diagnose COVID-19 more quickly and so expedite treatment for patients suffering from severe cases, as ear, nose, and throat specialist Dr Mehrnaz Ataei and genetic and healthcare ML developer Dr Sara Moein succinctly explain.
|
May 24, 2023
A viable path out of the pandemic is crucial
Most people now act as if COVID-19 is over, yet the virus remains active and dangerous. The limited ability of current vaccines and drugs to prevent infection or treat long-COVID means much more must be done before the threat posed by this pathogen is truly a thing of the past.
|
Apr 05, 2023
AI threatens academic integrity, so it must be used in teaching
The rise of GenAI threatens academic integrity, but shunning it entirely would be misguided. Instead, it should be used in teaching to encourage responsible use, argues Alessia Paccagnini, Associate Professor at the University College Dublin’s Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School.
|
Nov 15, 2024
AI offers a lasting solution to children with milk allergies
Milk allergies have caused great inconvenience and discomfort for many people over the years, and this is often an ailment that they must put up with for their entire lives. Now, however, AI is changing what is possible and offering hope that a cure is within reach at last.
|
Oct 31, 2024
Posos and Microsoft transform prescriptions with Dragon speech recognition
Posos, an AI startup in the medical field, is looking to make healthcare more efficient and effective for both clinicians and patients, saving time and expenses for all. To that end, it is using Microsoft’s speech recognition technology to power innovation and deliver results.
|
Oct 28, 2024
Women’s healthcare must be taken more seriously to overcome health inequality
Men and women’s healthcare differs in many respects, and while this should not affect the quality of care, in practice women too often do not get the services they deserve. AI expert and technical writer Priya Dialani illustrates why this is the case in an interview with healthcare entrepreneur Sarah M. Worthy.
|
Oct 18, 2024
AI in DubAI: Dubai is becoming a premier global center for advanced tech
Dubai, one of the world’s most advanced and international cities, also happens to contain ‘AI’ in its name - which is quite fitting given the importance of this futuristic metropolis as a global tech hub. Digital transformation and AI expert Semih Kumluk has more.
|
Jul 18, 2024
Innovation and Collaboration Take Center Stage at Reuters Pharma Conference 2024
The Reuters pharma conference is a central platform for pharma executives, patient advocacy groups, and other healthcare experts to share insights, exchange ideas, and be informed about evolving trends within the pharma industry, reports The Yuan contributor Oladimeji Ewumi.
|
Jun 04, 2024
Warren Buffett strikes a gloomy note over AI at his company’s annual confab
Warren Buffett, the éminence grise of investment, took the occasion of his company shareholders’ meeting to air his views on AI - part upbeat and part desponding. Though concededly no AI maven, Buffet’s remarks made waves nonetheless as he voiced his hopes and fears for the tech.
|
May 09, 2024
Market power is permanent even with intense technological competition
Contrary to what one might think, the competition and ceaseless innovation that are hallmarks of today’s globalized, digital, hyperconnected world are actually increasing and entrenching market power for large, established players, argues Stanford economics prof Mordecai Kurz.
|
Mar 05, 2024
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