I'm a huge reddit fan, I think we have too much information around, and I also like to write small bullets about the things I read... so this series should be a win-win!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/73e9xk/ai_and_chinese_doctors_at_least_40_hospitals_in/
AI and Chinese doctors: “At least 40 hospitals in China have deployed IBM’s Watson... Beijing-based Huiyihuiying, for instance, said it has AI doctors capable of interpreting CT scans... reading a CT scan and making diagnoses within seconds compared to five minutes needed by human doctors.”
I work for a radiology company that has been doing some development work with Watson for the last couple of years. One thing the article doesn't really get into is that Watson is being used to evaluate CT perfusion studies and some lung studies, but they're not actually giving a full report. They're flagging the studies as "This is 80% likely to be a positive" and that can be used to prioritize studies based off potential positive reads.
I'm an engineer working in this industry. I can tell you that I wouldn't want medical jobs to be replaced fully by automation either. Machine learning and "AI" is intended to be a tool to empower medical professionals to do things faster, better and with more accuracy. If you give a tractor to a farmer who has used handheld tools all his life, he will do the job faster and with more consistency. That's exactly what the case in the article describes; it gives medical professionals the tool to do jobs faster.
Radiologist here. I work with many people who do research in AI and imaging. We do not have AI that interprets CT scans. We don't have anything remotely close to this. This is an utter fairytale. To give you some perspective of the type of AI we are currently working on, the RSNA is currently having a competition to classify bone age in pediatric radiographs. This is an incredibly simple task and no where near a CT interpretation. This story is absolute crap. Interpreting CT scans is more of an art than a science unfortunately and radiologists won't be going anywhere soon.
Well, we debunk this hype pretty quickly... let's move on :DDD
Harvard and MIT researchers have developed smart tattoo ink capable of monitoring dehydration and blood sugar by changing color.
Apparently another University developed this in 2011. According to the article, it also happened in 2002, 2009 & 2010
Genuine question, why is it that we always seem to hear about this kind of stuff, especially on this sub, yet never really hear anything afterwards in terms of it actually being used?
TL;DR We are usually reading about prototypes of things that aren't viable to produce for the real world in mass because of costs or increasing problems during development.
So this isn't really new, it's been around for more than 15 years... Bummer!!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/72n2oq/research_suggests_theres_a_case_for_the_3hour/
Research suggests there's a case for the 3-hour workday: Over the course of an eight-hour workday, the average employee works for about three hours — two hours and 53 minutes, to be more precise. [...] People who are pushed past their productive limits run the risk of forming bad habits that bleed into their more productive hours [...] Attention span begins to decay significantly after just 20 minutes. [...] Toward the end of the day, performance begins to flatline or even worsen.
I must say I find this absolutely true. If you are required to do cognitive tasks, an upper limit of 3 hours seems to be the rule; at least it is for me :DDD
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