Preempting a generative AI monopoly is key
By Diane Coyle | Mar 23, 2023
Despite ChatGPT’s flaws and use to create malware and disinformation, it is a huge step forward. Regulators must not be too heavy-handed, but letting markets decide outcomes is also not optimal. Cambridge University Prof Diane Coyle urges finding the most suitable middle ground.
Automating hospital discharge summaries with ChatGPT
ChatGPT is good at writing discharge summaries for patients to ease the load on medical staff to free them for complex tasks ChatGPT is inept at, while safeguarding patient data, states Vanessa Klotzman, a Software Engineering PhD candidate and an ML and NLP in healthcare expert.
Cambridge launches first-ever Cam Tech Week
This article is the first in a series on Cambridge and UK organizations that are innovating in healthcare by using AI technologies. It introduces Cambridge, UK and its thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem grounded in cutting-edge research and connected to finance and other support.
Can robots help mitigate China’s demographic decline?
China’s demographic dividend is over, and it faces an aging, shrinking workforce and population, and slowing economy. The nation has also become a robotics powerhouse, especially in industrial robots, and this promises to raise production in China’s workforce and overall economy.
What's wrong with ChatGPT?
ChatGPT wins high praise, but few talk of its downsides and those who may lose out as a result of it. Part of this is fear of jobs automated out of existence, though a bigger issue is that AI chatbots can be eloquent but utterly useless in solving problems that need customer aid.
The next trillion-dollar business: personal AI assistants - part 2
The first article in this series was on how the success of ChatGPT indicates personal AI assistants are the next wave. This part discusses the difficulties of making a PAI assistant, means to overcome these obstacles, and why self-driving carmakers must jump on the PAI bandwagon.
Computer vision AI offers hope in diagnosing, treating skin disordersComputer vision AI shows promise in detecting and treating skin cancer, lesions, and other skin disorders, capturing better images of them, more easily distinguishing benign and malignant lesions, and raising the odds of successful treatment. The risk of bias remains, as does the inability to diagnose rare skin conditions, explains Dipro Chakraborty, director of Digital Architecture at AI healthcare firm TurningPoint.
Nigerians in the age of AIAs AI is ever-more integral to daily life it is now no novelty even in the most-remote countries. Despite this ubiquity, many Nigerians remain wholly unaware of the potential impact of AI on them and on society in Africa’s most populous country, ML engineer Gift Kenneth explains.
Automating hospital discharge summaries with ChatGPT
ChatGPT is good at writing discharge summaries for patients to ease the load on medical staff to free them for complex tasks ChatGPT is inept at, while safeguarding patient data, states Vanessa Klotzman, a Software Engineering PhD candidate and an ML and NLP in healthcare expert.
What's wrong with ChatGPT?
ChatGPT wins high praise, but few talk of its downsides and those who may lose out as a result of it. Part of this is fear of jobs automated out of existence, though a bigger issue is that AI chatbots can be eloquent but utterly useless in solving problems that need customer aid.
The coming Green Revolution will be digitalized
Farming is one of the world’s oldest and most key endeavors. Feeding the growing global population - projected to reach 10 billion by 2050 - amid accelerating climate change presents an unprecedented high-wire act that will demand human ingenuity, good governance, and technology.
The Yuan favorites
Post-pandemic
China’s COVID-19 crisis - Recovering as situation evolves
Since easing its zero-COVID policy over the past two months China has weathered a tidal wave of COVID-19 infections, now thankfully ebbing. As immunity from infection and vaccines begins to wane in coming months, the country must now brace for aftershocks. Vaccinations, boosters and furnishing hospitals and clinics with adequate staff, medicine, and ICU beds will arm China to withstand future surges.
Post-pandemic
The RNA vaccine revolution: how did Moderna change the game?
mRNA vaccines are not new but are now receiving far more attention as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The success of the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccines and the speed with which they were rolled out was especially notable and holds great promise for other future applications post-pandemic.
Post-pandemic
Fixing the world’s public health data problem is critical
Issues of inadequate or missing data collection, and fragmented, incompatible health systems hampered the response to COVID-19 and threaten to do so in future outbreaks. Fortunately, several possible solutions could at least partly remedy this problem.
Post-pandemic
COVID experts have solutions for the aging immune system
During their studies of COVID-19 and the organ damage it can cause, experts have learned more about organs themselves, as well as the human immune system and immune responses to pathogens and are devising ways to slow or even reverse the decline in aging immune systems.
Metaverse
The next trillion-dollar business: personal AI assistants - part 2
The first article in this series was on how the success of ChatGPT indicates personal AI assistants are the next wave. This part discusses the difficulties of making a PAI assistant, means to overcome these obstacles, and why self-driving carmakers must jump on the PAI bandwagon.
Metaverse
Imaginary Friends 6: The circles of an imaginary mind
As our four imaginary friends feted the New Year, they end this series by spreading cheer with examples of AI’s failures that may have ruined or caused lives to be lost. Their moral is blunt: Never unloose AI unless it is under adult supervision and subject to actual intelligence.
Metaverse
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.
Metaverse
Imaginary Friends 5: ‘The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers’
This time, the four imaginary friends gather together once more to consider the importance of precision in language as they examine vocabulary, grammar, and inflection. Imprecise language can be especially problematic with AI, which can easily get confused and spit out answers or take actions that are incorrect.
Optimization
AI for a safer future: preventing the next health crisis
AI has proven to be adept at spotting and tracking the emergence, mutation, and spread of viruses and at flagging the strains more likely to prove deadly. Dr Jennifer Dunphy, who heads population health at a large physician association, explores this and whether AI can also avert another pandemic.
Optimization
Healthcare system applications in the metaverse based on the experience layer
Users interact with screen objects in Web 2.0, but the metaverse seeks to take this further with Web 3.0, enabling fully immersive, 3D experiences - one of seven layers of the metaverse. Of the myriad potential applications of this tech, none has more consequence than healthcare.
Optimization
Causation: The most misunderstood concept in AI
This article is part two of the ongoing series: AI Prediction, AI Prescription and Causation in Medicine. Just as correlation and causation are often conflated, so too are predictive and prescriptive models. Data science expert and It’s All Analytics founder Scott Burk sheds light on the key differences, which are most applicable to which situations, and how to avoid misapplications.
Optimization
Parable: AI and data integration will confer myriad capabilities on hospitals
What will healthcare systems, hospitals and other medical institutions be like decades in the future? Radiologist and healthcare executive Dr Gustavo Meirelles spins a yarn depicting what they might be capable of, and how today’s technology and current research will usher in this golden era.
Governance
Changing course in troubled waters: new trends in Russia’s AI policy
Russia has long deemed AI of paramount importance to achieving its ambitions and aspirations, though its strategies and efforts have produced mixed results, but new shifts and trends are now beginning to emerge that could potentially reshape this landscape.
Governance
Is Europe deindustrializing?
As exorbitant energy costs and Washington’s drive to lure Europe’s green companies to the US slam the continent’s industry, are its industrial zones set to become rustbelts? Is Germany to languish as its factories shutter, forcing its highly skilled craftsmen to take menial jobs?
Governance
China and AI: Fearsome dragon, paper tiger, or somewhere in between?
The US leads in Advanced AI, but Beijing has taken a keener interest in AI since DeepMind’s AlphaGo beat the world’s best Go player in 2016. Are the two AI superpowers doomed to inevitable conflict? Best-selling AI author Calum Chace’s answer may surprise you.
Governance
The great chip war
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has rightfully grabbed many of the headlines over the past year, but an equally consequential development has been the intensifying economic clash between the US and China, including severe restrictions imposed on the export to China of advanced chips and other high-tech goods made using American tech.
Cognition
Can algorithms really learn empathy?
Regardless of how history views ChatGPT, it has certainly succeeded at grabbing the spotlight and riveting the public gaze on AI and its current capabilities. Still, the brouhaha should not obscure ChatGPT’s developmental stage as a rudimentary tool that represents more of a beginning, with huge room for improvement.
Cognition
More must be done to fully bridge the gender divide in the tech industry
Tech is the fastest growing and most dynamic sector, with endless opportunities for growth and innovation, but also notorious for its glaring gender gap: Women are underrepresented and subjected to prejudice and discrimination. Yet a sea change is now underway as ever more women flock to the industry, winning laurels as leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators.
Cognition
AI desperately needs human values
Humanity has a basic but worryingly incomplete understanding of AI’s abilities and faces the daunting hurdle of making it more ethical and human-centered, while mitigating its risks and nasty surprises. Social media, a potential force for good, but also infamous for sowing disinformation and undermining democracy and social cohesion, offers lessons, nonetheless.
Cognition
AI and humanity: Beyond the buzz and toward reality
All the fanfare over AI and its potential obscures its actual capabilities. Such misconceptions must be appropriately addressed so that the razzmatazz and the high expectations it engenders do not part company with reality, according to ML engineer Jacia Ebubechi.
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.
Delta dialog
Community
China’s COVID-19 crisis - Recovering as situation evolves
Since easing its zero-COVID policy over the past two months China has weathered a tidal wave of COVID-19 infections, now thankfully ebbing. As immunity from infection and vaccines begins to wane in coming months, the country must now brace for aftershocks. Vaccinations, boosters and furnishing hospitals and clinics with adequate staff, medicine, and ICU beds will arm China to withstand future surges.
|
Feb 14, 2023
The RNA vaccine revolution: how did Moderna change the game?
mRNA vaccines are not new but are now receiving far more attention as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The success of the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccines and the speed with which they were rolled out was especially notable and holds great promise for other future applications post-pandemic.
|
Dec 14, 2022
Fixing the world’s public health data problem is critical
Issues of inadequate or missing data collection, and fragmented, incompatible health systems hampered the response to COVID-19 and threaten to do so in future outbreaks. Fortunately, several possible solutions could at least partly remedy this problem.
|
Aug 29, 2022
COVID experts have solutions for the aging immune system
During their studies of COVID-19 and the organ damage it can cause, experts have learned more about organs themselves, as well as the human immune system and immune responses to pathogens and are devising ways to slow or even reverse the decline in aging immune systems.
|
Aug 11, 2022
The next trillion-dollar business: personal AI assistants - part 2
The first article in this series was on how the success of ChatGPT indicates personal AI assistants are the next wave. This part discusses the difficulties of making a PAI assistant, means to overcome these obstacles, and why self-driving carmakers must jump on the PAI bandwagon.
|
Mar 16, 2023
Imaginary Friends 6: The circles of an imaginary mind
As our four imaginary friends feted the New Year, they end this series by spreading cheer with examples of AI’s failures that may have ruined or caused lives to be lost. Their moral is blunt: Never unloose AI unless it is under adult supervision and subject to actual intelligence.
|
Mar 02, 2023
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.
|
Feb 08, 2023
Imaginary Friends 5: ‘The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers’
This time, the four imaginary friends gather together once more to consider the importance of precision in language as they examine vocabulary, grammar, and inflection. Imprecise language can be especially problematic with AI, which can easily get confused and spit out answers or take actions that are incorrect.
|
Feb 07, 2023
AI for a safer future: preventing the next health crisis
AI has proven to be adept at spotting and tracking the emergence, mutation, and spread of viruses and at flagging the strains more likely to prove deadly. Dr Jennifer Dunphy, who heads population health at a large physician association, explores this and whether AI can also avert another pandemic.
|
Mar 14, 2023
Healthcare system applications in the metaverse based on the experience layer
Users interact with screen objects in Web 2.0, but the metaverse seeks to take this further with Web 3.0, enabling fully immersive, 3D experiences - one of seven layers of the metaverse. Of the myriad potential applications of this tech, none has more consequence than healthcare.
|
Mar 09, 2023
Causation: The most misunderstood concept in AI
This article is part two of the ongoing series: AI Prediction, AI Prescription and Causation in Medicine. Just as correlation and causation are often conflated, so too are predictive and prescriptive models. Data science expert and It’s All Analytics founder Scott Burk sheds light on the key differences, which are most applicable to which situations, and how to avoid misapplications.
|
Feb 21, 2023
Parable: AI and data integration will confer myriad capabilities on hospitals
What will healthcare systems, hospitals and other medical institutions be like decades in the future? Radiologist and healthcare executive Dr Gustavo Meirelles spins a yarn depicting what they might be capable of, and how today’s technology and current research will usher in this golden era.
|
Feb 17, 2023
Changing course in troubled waters: new trends in Russia’s AI policy
Russia has long deemed AI of paramount importance to achieving its ambitions and aspirations, though its strategies and efforts have produced mixed results, but new shifts and trends are now beginning to emerge that could potentially reshape this landscape.
|
Mar 06, 2023
Is Europe deindustrializing?
As exorbitant energy costs and Washington’s drive to lure Europe’s green companies to the US slam the continent’s industry, are its industrial zones set to become rustbelts? Is Germany to languish as its factories shutter, forcing its highly skilled craftsmen to take menial jobs?
|
Mar 03, 2023
China and AI: Fearsome dragon, paper tiger, or somewhere in between?
The US leads in Advanced AI, but Beijing has taken a keener interest in AI since DeepMind’s AlphaGo beat the world’s best Go player in 2016. Are the two AI superpowers doomed to inevitable conflict? Best-selling AI author Calum Chace’s answer may surprise you.
|
Feb 27, 2023
The great chip war
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has rightfully grabbed many of the headlines over the past year, but an equally consequential development has been the intensifying economic clash between the US and China, including severe restrictions imposed on the export to China of advanced chips and other high-tech goods made using American tech.
|
Jan 25, 2023
Can algorithms really learn empathy?
Regardless of how history views ChatGPT, it has certainly succeeded at grabbing the spotlight and riveting the public gaze on AI and its current capabilities. Still, the brouhaha should not obscure ChatGPT’s developmental stage as a rudimentary tool that represents more of a beginning, with huge room for improvement.
|
Feb 22, 2023
More must be done to fully bridge the gender divide in the tech industry
Tech is the fastest growing and most dynamic sector, with endless opportunities for growth and innovation, but also notorious for its glaring gender gap: Women are underrepresented and subjected to prejudice and discrimination. Yet a sea change is now underway as ever more women flock to the industry, winning laurels as leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators.
|
Feb 20, 2023
AI desperately needs human values
Humanity has a basic but worryingly incomplete understanding of AI’s abilities and faces the daunting hurdle of making it more ethical and human-centered, while mitigating its risks and nasty surprises. Social media, a potential force for good, but also infamous for sowing disinformation and undermining democracy and social cohesion, offers lessons, nonetheless.
|
Feb 15, 2023
AI and humanity: Beyond the buzz and toward reality
All the fanfare over AI and its potential obscures its actual capabilities. Such misconceptions must be appropriately addressed so that the razzmatazz and the high expectations it engenders do not part company with reality, according to ML engineer Jacia Ebubechi.
|
Jan 19, 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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