Ahmad Nazzal - Author

Ahmad Nazzal

Contributor, The Yuan

Ahmad Nazzal is a doctor, neuroscientist and medical writer. His work in digital health, data science and clinical research focuses on effective medical communication with patients, doctors and businesses. Ahmad is passionate about using digital health and AI to improve the quality and affordability of healthcare. He is the author of 'AI's Revelation: The Future of Medicine.'

Brain science

The time has come to rethink the 'learning' in machine learning

The rubric ‘machine learning’ seems to posit that machines learn novel concepts in much the same way that humans do, but this assumption is both flawed and glosses over important complexities, writes physician, neuroscientist, and medical writer Ahmad M. Nazzal.

Ahmad Nazzal | Apr 11, 2024

Brain science

Creating intelligence in a laboratory is no longer a pipe dream

Artificial intelligence is one thing, but what if it were possible to create actual, biological intelligence in a laboratory? While this may be beyond today’s technology, that will not always be the case. Doctor, neuroscientist, and medical writer Ahmad M. Nazzal weighs in.

Ahmad Nazzal | Nov 09, 2023

Brain science

Can We Copy the Human Brain?

Dr Ahmad M. Nazzal wades through the neuroscientific quagmire of possibilities to consider whether copying a human brain is possible in the very near future.

Ahmad Nazzal | Feb 18, 2022