A Guide and a Seeker walk into a bar.
The Seeker says, “I’m so glad I’m here, I’ve been searching far and wide for good beer to slake my thirst, and you, my Guide, have finally brought me here!”
The Guide says, “Ah, I know just the thing. I’ll get you some Dos Equis. A merchant’s representative told me it’s the most interesting beer in the world!”
The Guide tries to order a …
An allegory for the broken U.S. health care system
Dara closes one eye, then the other. “What the hell?” she thinks. The vision in one eye is noticeably darker and worse than in the other eye. She exits the dark room, where she had been coding a new website for a client, and heads to the bathroom. She looks at herself in the mirror. Nothing seemed wrong with her eyes. Nothing hurts, well, maybe a slight headache, but she …
Alice in Wonderland: the AI first health system
When I was a young bonnie lad of just 16, I was lucky enough to score a meeting with Sandy Napel, PhD at Stanford University’s Radiological Sciences Laboratory (RSL). I demonstrated a prototype algorithm that automatically identified the position and course of arteries on CT scans. It was the first shot in a nearly decade-long academic research career that included early publications on using neural networks (the precursor to today’s …
AI is already replacing doctors—just not how you think
I was at a conference of physician executives and physician founders recently, and there were many stimulating conversations. The idea that AI could see us as a threat and eventually destroy us came up in various forms, often as a half-serious joke. Half-serious jokes are serious concerns. Indeed, astrophysicist Martin Rees predicted that humanity had a 50 percent chance of destroying itself this century due to technological advances and threats, …
Why fearing AI is really about fearing ourselves
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