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Are AI solutions in healthcare cost-effective and financially viable?
By Gustavo Meirelles | Jul 25, 2024
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.
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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.
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Genome of Greece is a paradigm for large-scale genomic medicine projectsThe 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.
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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.
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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
Oxford Drug Design leads the charge for an AI-powered cancer cure
A cancer cure once seemed like an ambitious yet distant dream. However, companies like Oxford Drug Design are transforming this dream into reality. The Yuan contributor, Oladimeji Ewumi, explores this exciting development in a recent interview, revealing how the landscape is changing for the better.
Game-changers
AI revolutionizes cervical cancer prevention screening, empowers women’s health
Cervical cancer continues to be one of the biggest threats girls and women face, and while a comprehensive cure has not yet been realized, AI is already revolutionizing screening, prevention, and treatment methods, notes NLP and healthtech pharmacist Michelle Louise Jose.
Game-changers
AI is making digital immortality a reality, but not always as expected
Just as mobile phones, apps, and social media have completely changed people’s lives over the past 15 years, personalized AI is also poised to completely redefine how people live. This includes digital selves, which live on even after their physical counterparts have passed away.
Game-changers
Japanese anime, manga offer hints as to ‘apocalyptic’ AI, robots
Western films and cartoons tend to play up apocalyptic fears in their portrayals of AI, robotics, and other advanced tech, but Japanese anime and manga show how these might just end up blending in and becoming part of people’s everyday lives, argues AI ethicist Tomoko Mitsuoka.
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.
Domain knowledge
The intersection of AI and healthcare is dynamic and ever evolving
This episode of the Delta Dialog explores the dynamic intersection of AI and healthcare. The Yuan contributor Dr Ahmad Nazzal shares his journey from his early fascination with science and computers to his current work in digital health and AI, particularly in radiology and neuroscience.
Domain knowledge
Writing, editing AI-related content comes with many challenges
This episode of the Delta Dialog examines the challenges and opportunities of writing and editing AI-related content, the intersection of AI and linguistics, and ethical considerations in AI research from the perspective of Jack Kotin, one of The Yuan's editors..
Domain knowledge
GenAI Falls Short in Easing Physician Burnout, Study Shows
GenAI is one of the world’s most recently hyped technological developments and boasts impressive achievements. However, it falls short in critical areas, notably in its inability to significantly alleviate physician burnout, reports health writer and AI expert Oladimeji Ewumi.
Domain knowledge
AI improves understanding of diet-gut microbiome interactions, gut health
The human gut microbiome has a huge impact on health and how prone people are to contracting illness, which means that efforts to use AI to make healthcare better and more personalized are incomplete unless they incorporate this field, argues cell biology expert Martina Rossi.
Generic
Brainstorming open medical data, AI leads to fascinating insights
This episode of the Delta Dialog explores the evolving landscape of open medical data and AI in healthcare with The Yuan's contributor Dr Ahmad Nazzal. The conversation delves into the challenges and opportunities presented by AI, offering a comprehensive and up-to-date look at how these technologies are reshaping the medical field.
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The history of The Yuan's Delta Dialog podcast will guide its future path
In this special episode of the Delta Dialog, host Emir Mustafa discusses the origins, purpose, and format of the podcast. The episode does not feature guest speakers but provides an in-depth look at the Delta Dialog itself, the changes to the program format, and the vision for future episodes.
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Should AI be Christian-centric, Shinto-centric, or simply multicultural?
Depending on whom one asks, AI might be a source of fear and apprehension, excitement and anticipation, or just indifference. Many of these differences of opinion can be explained by people’s religious and cultural backgrounds, argues AI ethicist Tomoko Mitsuoka.
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AI Impacts describes key points of the 2023 Expert Survey on Progress in AI
Many people are now wondering what the future of AI might look like. To that end, entrepreneur Katja Grace co-founded her startup AI Impacts to investigate possible answers to this question. The Yuan and The London Futurists recently sat down with her to learn more.
Can ‘AI’ outsmart humans? That depends on how one defines ‘smart’
Whether machines will ever outsmart humans is a question of the use of language and the inadequacy of programming because, on their own, machines are not clever, says Nigel Morris-Cotterill, author of The Yuan’s ‘Imaginary Friends’ series, on day 14 of The Yuan’s voyage of intelligent discovery.
What will be the outcome when AI 'outsmarts' humans?
Views on AI diverge. Some see a savior bestowing immortality on and whisking humanity off to the stars. Others descry a false prophet encompassing the ruin of humankind. The Yuan is cordially inviting our contributors to read their auguries and divine a time when AI ‘outsmarts’ us in this new series.
Human-machine relationship needs shared understanding to thrive
The Yuan’s voyage of intelligent discovery lands back in London to end on day 18. The capital of the largest empire ever was once dubbed ‘The Smoke’ due to the notorious ‘pea-soup’ smog from its coal-burning furnaces and hearths. A new Industrial Revolution is now underway in this cradle of the first one, and Ivana Bartoletti, chief privacy officer at IT business consultancy Wipro, advises how to better close the damper on its adverse effects.
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.
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.
Is ChatGPT really a ‘code red’ for Google Search? Maybe not
ChatGPT has lately been the focus of a great deal of buzz and great expectations, though its real capabilities and limitations also warrant attention, especially when compared to Google’s search engine. AI scientist, best-selling author, and serial entrepreneur Gary Marcus cuts through all the ballyhoo in quest of answers.
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