Status Updates From AIQ: How People and Machine...

“[Even if] there were a common data standard, most hospitals are very hesitant to team up with data scientists, even under terms that guarantee patient privacy. In fact, we’ve found them to be downright paranoid, and other researchers we’ve spoken with have said the same thing.” Oh, I wonder why 🤔

“[There are surely millions of clinical histories of kidney disease scattered across the medical databases of the world that] could be brought together, and teams of data scientists could be hired to analyze them using cutting-edge AI tools, in a way that still ensured patient privacy. Doing this across all of medicine would create hundreds of thousands of jobs…”

“The more extreme narrative… holds that there's something uniquely and unavoidably autocratic about the surveillance capabilities of modern AI. [We’re] not experts in the sociology of technology, but we’ve yet to see good evidence for this claim… Moreover… there is no obvious correlation between a country's engagement with digital technology and its respect for privacy and basic human rights.“🙄

Parts of the Introduction already seem outdated and overly optimistic e.g. “no option on the table today even remotely foreordains such a possibility (of AGI)” and “[big companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Apple will] only continue to be successful if they keep innovating” and the authors don’t think these companies will remain dominant forever. They don’t have to remain dominant to wreak havoc

Ai helps teams go through data to find ideal matchups on the basketball court, now that's interesting.