All-In for AI
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What is AI?
- A demonstration from google
- historically oriented exposition ...
- Narrow vs. General AI
- Supervised and unsupervised classification algorithms
- Introduction to Natural Language Processing
- Genetic Algorithms
Applications
- Multimodal Data Fusion (yes; it's a thing); From the article: "The well-accepted paradigm that certain natural processes and phenomena can express themselves under completely different physical guises is the raison d etre of multimodal data fusion. Too often, however, very little is known about the underlying relationships among these modalities. Therefore, the most obvious and essential endeavour to be undertaken in any multimodal data analysis task is exploratory: to learn about relationships between modalities, their complementarity".
- Thread - a firm that integrates data from sensors and wearables, and provides an e-platform for clinical research
- Digital Phenotype - Mindstrong Health
- Monitoring cognition solely through speech
- AI applications - Facial Recognition: You may have heard there are a lot of cameras in the UK. Recently, during a Rememberance Day ceremony, facial recognition software was deployed to scan for specific people in large crowds. Does raise some issues.
- Slaughterbots - video created to increase awareness about potential threat from autonomous weapons
- AI applications: the angle here is wearables (and associated data) as interventions
- Patient/consumer-facing apps and wearables were the theme of this event held by the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy. If you missed it, they have pdfs and a video with content
- 9 companies selected for FDA's digital health pilot
- AI starting to influence Pharma....Space to watch
- AI applications: "Depression diagnosis" with instagram photos and AI
- Three ways clinical trials will be transformed
- Watch out excel; Google adding AI in it's spreadsheets
- AI applications: Speeding up the drug discovery/development cycle (Berg CEO Niven Narain)
- AI applications: detecting melanoma with a picture (employing fractal geometry algorithms)
- AI applications: Deep patient (deep learning applied to EHRs to perform clinical predictions)
- AI applications: Machine learning predicts Alzheimer's disease
- AI applications: Autonomous military drone swarms -- they are here :(
- AI applications: IBM Watson + Quest Dx -> (Literature + patient labs -> better care)
- AI applications: quantified self (wearables, sensors, apps)
- AI applications: Machine learning predicting outcomes (on standard measures) - p1Vital tool
- AI applications: Want to see what a 1000 drones with a collective task can do? (hint: think "Borg")
- Apple's recommended 'sleep apps'. Perhaps sleep labs will be getting a little less business in the future.
Inside the Black Box
- Digital subconscious and unmasking AI decisions (not so straightforward)
- AI interior world - Part 1: The Black Box
- AI interior world - Part 2: A trip into Deep Dream (see my post on "Black Box" for more about this)
- AI - inner world - The machine constructs a representation, but the process is a bit mysterious. Perhaps insight can be gained by watching a great artist deconstruct one (Picasso sketches, from about 1945)
- Dali draws horses
Singularity
- Singularity - part 1: What Zuckerberg, Musk and Kaku are saying
- Singularity - part 2: Justine Cassell suggests a balanced view
- Singularity, part 3: recursive self-improvement, D-Wave, quantum computing, 'bad utility functions', and Elon Musk's warning
- Singularity - Part 4: "Bill Gates: [humans] have a general purpose learning algorithm ...running in an extremely slow computer"
- Singularity - Part 5: Vladimir Putin opines...
- Singularity part 6 - Stephen Hawking (two things here: one is the AI system he uses to communicate, and the 2nd is his prediction about what general purpose AI may mean for humans, at about minute 4:30)
- Singularity part 7 - Ben Goertzel: The first truly intelligent AI may be humanity's last invention
Quantum Computing
- Quantum computing - Part 1: Introduction
- Quantum computing - part 2: The 'qubit'
- Quantum computing - Part 3: The 'topological qubit' from microsoft
- Quantum computing - part 4: Lawrence Krauss provides a brief explanation
- Quantum computing - part 5: Two physicists discuss how things are different in the Quantum World and how that can lead to powerful Quantum Computers; animation by "PHD-TV" (piled high and deeper-TV)
The Bots
- The Bots - part 1: Rachel
- The Bots - part 2: Sophia
- Sophia is now an official citizen of Saudia Arabia
- Google Duplex
General
- AI - ELSI - Ethics in artificial intelligence
- Benevolent AI is an up and coming firm forging relationships and pharma (e.g. Janssen) and tech companies; here the founder talks about building morality into AI
- Google 'LaunchPad': Four small healthcare AI startups (BrainQ, Cytovale, Byteflies, and Augmedix) are taking advantage of Google's launchpad program (that provides all expense paid training at Google HQ and other forms of support). The companies get powerful tools, and Google gets advantage of extracting knowledge, and imbedding its technology in energetic startups.
- Microsoft partners with Parexel
- AI - company spotlight (AstraZeneca) - Several key innovations here in their new 5 part initiative; I particularly like #3 "From patient as subject to patient as partner".
- FDA's new Digital Health Unit
- AI for beginners...apparently :-)
- Programming for non-Programmers; yup....can happen....
- Ethics, part 1:podcast from ABC radionational Australia
- Podcast: 'Five Year Trends in Medical AI Applications'
- AI-featured website: Techemergence features articles and podcasts
- AI-ELSI (ethical, legal and social implications): It's been almost 8 decades since John Steinback published Grapes of Wrath, and now with our emerging Gig-Economics, big tech, media firms, and robotic technology, the elder worker is marginizaled and has become a new type of displaced person. Author-Journalist Jessica Bruder explores in "Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century"
- AI - ELSI: Our minds can be hijacked; inventors of social media having second thoughts. Meet the Silcone Valley Refuseniks
- AI - ESLI - For those of you who like lists, here is one that outlines in brief, with input from experts from all over the world in many disciplines, key issues in this field
- Former FDA and Takeda executive joins Datavant - expected to lead to greater cooperation between two companies
- Another partnership between pharma and IT (with an eye to AI); in this case between Accenture and Shionogi & Co.