Tag: artificial intelligence
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How to replace a physiotherapist (or any professional, really)
Rowe, M., Nicholls, D. A., & Shaw, J. (2021). How to replace a physiotherapist: Artificial intelligence and the redistribution of expertise. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice. I’m really excited to finally share this article that I’ve been working on for a couple of years with David Nicholls and Jay Shaw. I say a couple of years…
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Seeing beyond our own paradigms
Yesterday I saw this tweet from Enrico Coiera: So I downloaded the editorial and noted these sections: Through the Internet, the public has access to a growing supply of information on health and disease, often of variable quality and relevance. As a result, providing information on health will no longer be the exclusive remit of…
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Resource: Towards a curated library for AI in healthcare
I’ve started working on what will eventually become a curated library of resources that I’m using for my research on the impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning on clinical practice. At the moment it’s just a public repository of the articles, podcasts, blog posts that I’ve read or listened to and then saved in…
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Resource: Artificial Intelligence in Society.
The artificial intelligence (AI) landscape has evolved significantly from 1950 when Alan Turing first posed the question of whether machines can think. Today, AI is transforming societies and economies. It promises to generate productivity gains, improve well-being and help address global challenges, such as climate change, resource scarcity and health crises. Yet, as AI applications…
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UCT seminar: Shaping our algorithms
Tomorrow I’ll be presenting a short seminar at the University of Cape Town on a book chapter that was published earlier this year, called Shaping our algorithms before they shape us. Here are the slides I’ll be using, which I think are a useful summary of the chapter itself.
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Book chapter published: Shaping our algorithms before they shape us
I’ve just had a chapter published in an edited collection entitled: Artificial Intelligence and Inclusive Education: Speculative Futures and Emerging Practices. The book is edited by Jeremy Knox, Yuchen Wang and Michael Gallagher and is available here. Here’s the citation: Rowe M. (2019) Shaping Our Algorithms Before They Shape Us. In: Knox J., Wang Y.,…
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Article published – An introduction to machine learning for clinicians
It’s a nice coincidence that my article on machine learning for clinicians has been published at around the same time that my poster on a similar topic was presented at WCPT. I’m quite happy with this paper and think it offers a useful overview of the topic of machine learning that is specific to clinical…
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Technology Beyond the Tools
You didn’t need to know about how to print on a printing press in order to read a printed book. Writing implements were readily available in various forms in order to record thoughts, as well as communicate with them. The use was simple requiring nothing more than penmanship. The rapid advancement of technology has changed…
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‘The discourse is unhinged’: how the media gets AI alarmingly wrong
Zachary Lipton, an assistant professor at the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon University, watched with frustration as this story transformed from “interesting-ish research” to “sensationalized crap”. According to Lipton, in recent years broader interest in topics like “machine learning” and “deep learning” has led to a deluge of this type of opportunistic journalism, which…
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An introduction to artificial intelligence in clinical practice and education
Two weeks ago I presented some of my thoughts on the implications of AI and machine learning in clinical practice and health professions education at the 2018 SAAHE conference. Here are the slides I used (20 slides for 20 seconds each) with a very brief description of each slide. This presentation is based on a…
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OpenPhysio abstract: Artificial intelligence in clinical practice – Implications for physiotherapy education
Here is the abstract of a paper I recently submitted to OpenPhysio, a new open-access journal with an emphasis on physiotherapy education. About 200 years ago the invention of the steam engine ushered in an era of unprecedented development and growth in human social and economic systems, whereby human labour was supplanted by machines. The…
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altPhysio | Technology as infrastructure
This is the fourth post in my altPhysio series, where I’m exploring alternative ways of thinking about a physiotherapy curriculum by imagining what a future school might look like. This post is a bit longer than other because this is an area I’m really interested in and spend a lot of time thinking about. I’ve also added more links…
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Technology will make lecturers redundant – but only if they let it
Technology will make lecturers redundant — but only if they let it This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. A teacher walks into a classroom and begins a lesson. As she speaks, the audio is translated in real time into a variety of languages that students have pre-selected, so each…
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Physiotherapy in 2050: Ethical and clinical implications
This post describes a project that I began earlier this week with my 3rd year undergraduate students as part of their Professional Ethics module. The project represents a convergence of a few ideas that have been bouncing around in my head for a couple of years and are now coming together as a result of…
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Notes on podcast from Stephen Downes
I thought I’d make some notes while listening to this podcast interview from Stephen Downes., where he talks about personal learning environments, problems with e-learning and open vs. closed educational content. ———————————— Mentions Plearn as part of the opening discussion and bio. What is a PLE? Compares LMS to PLE. LMS is based around the…