A year from now you may wish you had started today.
Karen Lamb
7 links for the week ahead
- Dario Amodei (2024-10-11). All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.
- Sari Azout (2024-08-03). Lessons I’m Still Learning.
- Donald Clark (2024-10-08). An AI Provocation! How Biased Are WE on AI? Fascinating Paper….
- Elizabeth Goodspeed (2024-02-28). Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It.
- Adam Mastroianni (2024-10-15). If You Have Imposter Syndrome, Maybe You’re on to Something.
- Ethan Mollick (2024-07-04). Gradually, Then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold.
- Tim Urban (2024-10-15). Tim Urban: Why I Brought My Toddler to Watch SpaceX’s Flying Skyscraper.
The cognitive health system
Coiera, E. (2020). The cognitive health system. The Lancet, 395(10222), 463–466.
What if the health system could think? Alan Turing once famously asked a similar question about machines. Now, artificial intelligence challenges us to reimagine medicine in a machine-assisted world. But what will that world be like? Focusing just on machines and what they can do is easy, but health care is not a software problem to be solved by algorithms and machine learning alone. Humans populate our sociotechnical system; we create technology and in turn are shaped by it. Technical systems have social consequences, and social systems have technical consequences.
Multiple modalities and generative AI
As generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) tools continue to evolve and become more sophisticated they present opportunities and risks to student learning. In this video, Sydney University’s Professor Danny Liu takes us through some of the ways students could be using and misusing gen AI for multi-modal assessments, and offers some thoughts on how to address these challenges.
Personal update
- Presented a session on technology in health and social care for our Social Work students.
- Presented the final webinar of my Physiopedia MOOC on AI in physiotherapy.
- Recorded a short presentation for the Norwegian Physiotherapy Association, which will be presented next week at their AI theme day.
- Published a Head space newsletter on Structuring Accountability Partnerships (the second in what will be a 4-part series; see part 1 here).
- Travelled to Goa (India) to present at the Scientifica physiotherapy conference. I presented my keynote yesterday and ran a workshop today.
- I’m heading back to the UK tonight, then leaving again on the 20th for Estonia, where I’ll be running a workshop on AI in physiotherapy education at Tartu Health Care College.