Bonnie

“Think, sir, once that breath should cease, what might be awoken across this land even after these years! Yes, we slaughtered plenty, I admit it, caring not who was strong and who weak. God may not have smiled at us, but we cleansed the land of war.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

“Yet I couldn’t help but ask about whether his AI would eventually tackle more complex clinical problems such as diagnosis. “I have no plan to do diagnosis,” Shah said. I asked why. “I don’t think the leverage is there as much as it’s in nursing, and I don’t think it’s safe enough. It’s not the place to start.” I was impressed that, while Shah is clearly confident-bordering-on-cocky, he’s also savvy enough to avoid repeating the mistakes of the 1980s—when a group of AI pioneers chose to start with diagnosis because it was the most exciting problem.”
― Robert Wachter, A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future

“A 2024 study of more than one hundred thousand women in Norway found that AI-assisted analyses of three mammograms, one performed every two years, could accurately predict future risk of breast cancer, even when none of the scans showed evidence of active cancer.”
― Robert Wachter, A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future

“My king sent me to destroy this she-dragon not simply to build a monument to kin slain long ago. You begin to see, sir, this dragon died to make ready the way for the coming conquest.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant