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Theator’s AI, analytics give surgeons, patients a real shot in the arm
Optimization
Silicon Valley healthtech Theator crunches surgical data to optimize surgeons’ performance and ensure better patient experiences. Its co-founder and CEO Tamir Wolf lately sat down with The Yuan to present the firm’s latest advances set to transform surgical operations.
Oladimeji Ewumi  |  Dec 08 , 2023
GenAI falls flat as a RegTech anti-money laundering and compliance tool
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Lawyer and financial crime risk and compliance specialist Nigel Morris-Cotterill explains why the GenAI being touted as the next wave in RegTech to keep VC funds flowing is in reality quite ineffective at financial risk analysis and anti-money laundering monitoring activities.
Nigel Morris-Cotterill  |  Dec 07 , 2023
Brazil’s AI infatuation makes it a standout in Latin America, the World
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Brazilians welcome AI far more than their counterparts in wealthier North America and Europe. AI expert and Latin America maven Alex McFarland relates how AI has beguiled the world’s fifth-largest country and built a model that will reverberate way beyond its far-flung frontiers.
Alex McFarland  |  Dec 06 , 2023
AI has already made significant strides in monitoring drug safety
Domain knowledge
Adverse drug events rank along with tuberculosis and malaria as global disease burdens, thus underscoring the need for enhanced pharmacovigilance as new drugs land on the market in droves. Researcher Shipra Srivastava relates how AI is reinforcing the perimeter.
Shipra Asthana  |  Dec 05 , 2023
Philosophy for chatbots may sound silly, but holds important lessons
Cognition
In this open letter to a virtual chatbot, as ‘AI’ wins the ‘word of the year’ award, computational physicist Roger Kingdon gives a remedial lesson to remind his imaginary correspondent of distinctions between facts and values, as enshrined in key tenets of analytic philosophy.
Roger Kingdon  |  Dec 04 , 2023
The Yuan retrospective on 2023 AI healthcare revolution
Game-changers
As 2023 nears its conclusion, AI is transforming and dominating healthcare to an extent that many are unaware of. From drug discovery to treatment and beyond, author, entrepreneur, and The Yuan contributor Dr Rohit Thanki puts into focus the kaleidoscope of AI applications in medicine and prognosticates their future course.
Rohit Thanki  |  Dec 01 , 2023
A forecaster’s foray into AI safety
Governance
The unchecked advancement of AI systems is a ticking time bomb. It’s time to regulate, writes superforecaster Tolga Bilge.
Tolga Bilge  |  Nov 30 , 2023
AI-driven unemployment grabs headlines, but is more myth than reality
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Potential mass unemployment caused by AI has led to much handwringing, but a closer look reveals a more nuanced picture, argues Keun Lee, economics professor and former vice chair of the National Economic Advisory Council for the President of South Korea.
Keun Lee  |  Nov 29 , 2023
Teaching decision-making involves objectives, rewards, values, policies
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The doomsayers notwithstanding, decision-making remains the exclusive preserve of humans and the day when AI usurps it is still far off. Prof Sergei Kalinin reflects on a GenAI-assisted year of teaching ML and draws on it for lessons for next year’s curriculum in this blog post.
Sergei Kalinin  |  Nov 28 , 2023
Efforts to regulate Big Tech are turning into an exercise in futility
Emerging markets
Most agree Big Tech needs some sort of regulation, but its situation is very different from that of traditional monopolies. University of Athens Economics Prof Yanis Varoufakis, ex-Greek finance minister and head of the MeRA25 party, probes the thorny thickets of tech regulation.
Yanis Varoufakis  |  Nov 27 , 2023
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Janna Lipenkova
Janna Lipenkova
Janna Lipenkova is a computational linguist who speaks seven languages. She heads two companies, Anacode and Equintel, that use AI to deliver cutting-edge business intelligence and guide clients towards smarter decisions, strategy, and execution.
Philip M. Parker
Philip M. Parker
Philip M. Parker is Professor of Marketing at INSEAD and the INSEAD Chaired Professor of Management Science.His research explores why existing theories governing macroeconomic growth and firm level competition yield unreliable forecasts of actual market outcomes. He introduced the idea that physical sciences should be directly integrated into macroeconomic studies.
Ganes Kesari
Ganes Kesari
Ganes Kesari is an entrepreneur, AI thought leader, author, adjunct professor, and TEDx speaker. He is the founder of Innovation Titan, a data-science thought leadership and advisory firm. He advises executives on data-driven leadership and helps organizations adopt a culture of data for decision-making.
Johannes Walter
Johannes Walter
Johannes Walter is head of department and scientific director of digitalization and digital association development at Diakonie Baden as well as associate professor at IU International University of Applied Sciences. His research focuses on AI in healthcare and digital transformation in the social and healthcare sector.
Nikolaj van Omme
Nikolaj van Omme
Nikolaj van Omme is chief executive officer of Funartech, an AI startup that provides creative solutions to complex industrial problems by combining machine learning and applied mathematics. He is a strong proponent of hybrid methods and approaches, in particular the hybridization of machine learning and operations research.
Shanen Boettcher
Shanen Boettcher
Shanen Boettcher is a former General Manager of Microsoft’s Startup Business Group, which oversees the innovation of Microsoft’s core businesses. He also holds a PhD in human-machine communication and AI from the University of St Andrews, and has experience operationalizing strategy, developing global award-winning products, building tools and guidance for high-tech startups at Responsible Innovation Labs, and working as a product strategist for AI21 Labs, a leading artificial intelligence and large language model startup.
Austin Lentsch
Austin Lentsch
Austin Lentsch is a policy fellow at MIT’s Blueprint Labs.
Tonny Huang
Tonny Huang
Manager at Kearney.
Betty Pio
Betty Pio
Partner at Kearney.
Keena Patel-Moran
Keena Patel-Moran
Partner at Kearney.