Tag: big data
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The Desperate Quest for Genomic Compression Algorithms
While it’s hard to anticipate all the future benefits of genomic data, we can already see one unavoidable challenge: the nearly inconceivable amount of digital storage involved. At present the cost of storing genomic data is still just a small part of a lab’s overall budget. But that cost is growing dramatically, far outpacing the…
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How to ensure safety for medical artificial intelligence
When we think of AI, we are naturally drawn to its power to transform diagnosis and treatment planning and weigh up its potential by comparing AI capabilities to those of humans. We have yet, however, to look at AI seriously through the lens of patient safety. What new risks do these technologies bring to patients,…
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a16z Podcast: Putting AI in Medicine, in Practice
A wide-ranging conversation on several different aspects of AI in medicine. Some of the key takeaways for me included: AI (in it’s current form) has some potential for long-term prediction (e.g. you have an 80% chance of developing diabetes in the next 10 years) but we’re still very far from accurate short-term prediction (e.g. you’re…