Tag: algorithm
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AI is already an important part of clinical practice. Just not in the way that you think.
We’re all using AI all the time. We just don’t always recognise it. There’s a lot of discussion around the introduction of AI-based systems into clinical practice and healthcare systems. But these discussions tend to focus on the systems that are being designed, developed, and deployed as part of formal processes centred on ‘big ideas’…
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Weekly digest (14-18 Jun 2021)
This digest has an AI and machine learning focus because I’m preparing a presentation for the SAAHE conference next week, and my topic is Clinicians’ perceptions of the introduction of AI into clinical practice. It’s from an international survey I completed in 2019, mostly forgot about in 2020 (because, Covid) and am finally trying to…
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Comment: Artificial intelligence yields new antibiotic.
The researchers tested it against dozens of bacterial strains isolated from patients and grown in lab dishes, and found that it was able to kill many that are resistant to treatment, including Clostridium difficile, Acinetobacter baumannii, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Trafton, A. (2020). Artificial intelligence yields new antibiotic. Big Think. Something that stood out for me…
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Comment: Separating the Art of Medicine from Artificial Intelligence
…the only really useful value of artificial intelligence in chest radiography is, at best, to provide triage support — tell us what is normal and what is not, and highlight where it could possibly be abnormal. Just don’t try and claim that AI can definitively tell us what the abnormality is, because it can’t do so any…
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When AI Misjudgment Is Not an Accident
in AIThe conversation about unconscious bias in artificial intelligence often focuses on algorithms that unintentionally cause disproportionate harm to entire swaths of society…But the problem could run much deeper than that. Society should be on guard for another twist: the possibility that nefarious actors could seek to attack artificial intelligence systems by deliberately introducing bias into…
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DeepMind’s AI can detect over 50 eye diseases as accurately as a doctor.
This is the point at which the risk from medical AI becomes much greater. Our inability to explain exactly how AI systems reach certain decisions is well-documented. And, as we’ve seen with self-driving car crashes, when humans take our hands off the wheel, there’s always a chance that a computer will make a fatal error…