David P. Stonko, MD
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Open almost any surgical journal this year and you'll find a new AI model. A neural network that predicts anastomotic leak. A risk calculator trained on a single institution's registry. A computer-vision system that labels the phases of a laparoscopic…
Open almost any surgical journal this year and you’ll find a new AI model. A neural network that predicts anastomotic leak. A risk calculator trained on a single institution’s registry. A computer-vision system that labels the phases of a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. A bespoke tool for predicting graft patency, rupture risk, or readmission. Each is presented as a small, hard-won victory where domain experts encode clinical knowledge into a tightly scoped …
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Clinical AI tools are losing to general-purpose models
Health technology
It is no secret that the hyperscalers (e.g., Google Cloud, Amazon AWS, etc.) and the frontier AI labs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind) are devoting extraordinary attention, time, and capital to the AI buildout. The big four (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta)…
It is no secret that the hyperscalers (e.g., Google Cloud, Amazon AWS, etc.) and the frontier AI labs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind) are devoting extraordinary attention, time, and capital to the AI buildout. The big four (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta) have earmarked over $600 billion to this in 2026 alone. This trend has been the central theme in the equity market for the last three years or so. During this …
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Artificial general intelligence and the future of surgery
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