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May 29, 2024 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD, Detlef Koll
In this week’s blog we are going to highlight one aspect of how to use artificial intelligence (AI) responsibly. It is crystal clear that current AI capabilities from models like […]
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March 22, 2024 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
I recently read a fascinating editorial in Nature titled, Why scientists trust AI too much – and what to do about it. The editorial is based on a research perspective […]
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March 8, 2024 / By Nathan Brake, V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week I chatted with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning engineer and new Inside Angle blogger Nathan Brake to find out how he got started in the industry and […]
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Feb. 16, 2024 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week, I am looking at two articles, both bearing on the overall topic of future of digital health. Stanford Center for Digital Health I listened to a podcast […]
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Feb. 9, 2024 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
The history of artificial intelligence (AI) is littered with the notion of agents. What exactly is an agent? I remember attending a workshop on distributed AI in Gloucester, Mass., in […]
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Jan. 12, 2024 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week it is my privilege to share a podcast I did with Robert Plotkin. Robert is a patent lawyer who has been exploring the role of artificial intelligence (AI) […]
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Dec. 15, 2023 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
In this last blog for 2023, we take a tour of momentous happenings in the world of artificial intelligence (AI) through my 2023 AI talk blog journey. We also review […]
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Nov. 27, 2023 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
In this week’s blog, I explore the fascinating question: What does a large language model (LLM) really know? Intriguing studies from MIT researchers contain a partial answer. I also delve […]
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Oct. 27, 2023 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
In this blog, I explore the notion of “fit for purpose” in the context of large language models (LLMs). When you have a big hammer, as they say, everything is […]
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Oct. 6, 2023 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
A timely book by the founder of DeepMind, Mustafa Suleyman, is the main topic of discussion in this blog. The other topic is the pioneering work done by University of […]
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Sept. 15, 2023 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week, I blog about three different stories – two that involve Big Tech. The third storyline is about a Freakonomics podcast; they have done a three-part series on artificial […]
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Aug. 25, 2023 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This edition of AI talk explores the meaning of the term “open” in the context of software. Then I pivot to look at the fascinating work of the Khan Academy […]
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Aug. 11, 2023 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
In this blog, I explore the state of affairs with how to label content generated by artificial intelligence (AI). This is an incredibly hard problem to solve. Labeling AI […]
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July 28, 2023 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
In this blog, I highlight a recent podcast I did with my friend, colleague and team lead Thomas Schaaf on summarizing conversations. Next, I look at an interesting debate amongst […]
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July 7, 2023 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week I am going to focus on freshly proposed amendments to the EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act adopted on June 14, 2023, by the European Union (EU) parliament. I will […]
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June 16, 2023 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s blog highlights content from my latest podcast with my friend Prem Devanbu, distinguished professor emeritus at UC Davis. He works in empirical software engineering and artificial intelligence (AI) […]
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June 2, 2023 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
As I was browsing the blogsphere for what is new, I came across this snippet “Knowledge Graphs and LLMs are “a match made in Heaven.” and it piqued my interest. […]
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May 19, 2023 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week I am focusing on a discipline that didn’t exist a few years ago: Prompt engineering. Yes, I use the term discipline as there are now courses being offered […]
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May 5, 2023 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week I explore a range of different technologies, from deep fakes to drones to 3D printing. Deep fakes I saw an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal from […]
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April 24, 2023 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
In this week’s blog I focus on a newly announced foundation model from Meta and the swirling controversies and news around the large language models and generative artificial intelligence (AI) […]
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April 3, 2023 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
In this week’s blog I look at the labor force impact of large language models (LLMs) and a blog post by Bill Gates heralding a new era of artificial intelligence […]
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March 10, 2023 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Big tech is at war so to speak, a war started by the popularity of ChatGPT, based on a large language model (LLM). Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon have all […]
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Feb. 24, 2023 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week I am spotlighting research results published by our 3M HIS team of artificial intelligence (AI) scientists and researchers in the recent past. I will give a synopsis of […]
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Feb. 10, 2023 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week I am highlighting three stories that are related to problems caused by current state of artificial intelligence (AI). Watermarking LLM content MIT Technology Review has published an article […]
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Jan. 27, 2023 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week we cover a potpourri of different topics all related to application of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care: the trajectory of foundation models, what the American Medical Association […]
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Jan. 6, 2023 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Large language models are all the rage now in artificial intelligence (AI). The latest incarnation, ChatGPT, is exhibiting superhuman abilities in responding to instructions – from writing short cogent essays […]
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Dec. 16, 2022 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
For my last blog post of 2022, I will explore the explosion of new research results reported in two major conferences that happened in the past few weeks, first is […]
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Dec. 9, 2022 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
In this week’s blog I will take a peek at two books I read over the past month, one examining what our future society may look like and the other […]
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Nov. 18, 2022 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week, I want to review an interesting and instructive conversation I heard about the Turing Trap. Turing Trap The Brookings Institution recently hosted a discussion between the director of […]
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Oct. 28, 2022 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week I want to focus on my inaugural podcast. I have been a podcast guest a few times, but I have never hosted one myself. It was an interesting […]
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Oct. 7, 2022 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
AI Bill of Rights I saw a banner headline in MIT Technology Review this week proclaiming that the White House has come up with a new “AI Bill of Rights.” […]
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Sept. 23, 2022 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Digital mask I saw a fascinating new research study published this week. The theme of the research is how to protect patient’s facial images and video in the context of […]
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Sept. 9, 2022 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
In this week’s blog, I tackled three stories that cover a range of topics: An artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that predicts labor risk in pregnancy, how to manage risk in […]
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Aug. 12, 2022 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week, I cover three stories on artificial intelligence (AI): two relate to health care applications and one relates to governance aspect. “To see life in a drop of blood” […]
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July 22, 2022 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week I am reviewing the book, “Genesis Machine” which outlines the contours of a mind blowing emerging technology – synthetic biology. I have had “The Genesis Machine: Our Quest […]
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July 8, 2022 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
In this week’s blog, I explore the rationale behind using artificial intelligence (AI) that combines clinical knowledge and deep neural models in deploying health care solutions. Balancing knowledge and neural […]
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June 17, 2022 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week I sample a collection of new AI-based solutions that hit my radar. Interview assist I was fascinated by a new tool from Google, which takes conversational assistant technology […]
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May 20, 2022 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week I look at a slew of new models that have been released in the past month that have garnered significant interest. I was inspired to write this blog […]
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April 29, 2022 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Super sizing language models There is competition brewing in the world of language models. In the summer of 2020, I blogged about GPT-3, a mega-language model from Open AI. Also […]
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April 15, 2022 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize health care and mitigate clinicians’ administrative burden. Many health systems, however, are still only in the earliest stages of changing their workflows […]
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April 8, 2022 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Last month I saw an excellent article in Time Magazine by Sasha Brodsky about how virtual reality is changing health care. The thrust of the article was that virtual reality […]
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March 25, 2022 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
In this week’s blog, I trace the history and potential of the transformer architecture. Transformers is all you need Mention “transformers” to my grandkids and they get excited. But I […]
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March 11, 2022 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s blog explores the future of passwords and interoperability in health care. The end of passwords We have all seen the dreaded message: “Your password will expire in ** […]
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Feb. 25, 2022 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Properties of a good AI algorithm A few weeks ago, I saw a peer reviewed journal article titled “Ideal algorithms in health care,” and I was curious to see what […]
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Feb. 11, 2022 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
The first blog post in this series explored the trendlines impacting the interoperability of health systems and what is happening with the pharma and drug industry. The second blog post […]
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Jan. 28, 2022 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
In the part one of this blog series on artificial intelligence (AI) and the future of health care, we explored trends impacting the interoperability of health systems and drug costs. […]
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Jan. 21, 2022 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Last year, 2021, was a tumultuous year to say the least. And we are starting 2022 in the throes of the fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are witnessing […]
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Dec. 17, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This is my last blog for 2021, so I thought it would be appropriate to pause a beat and look back. What an eventful, tumultuous year. Here, I hope to […]
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Dec. 3, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
In this blog, I want to highlight one theme that I found interesting from the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2021), one that explores the […]
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Nov. 19, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Continuing the discussion of my observations from last week, here are a few highlights from various sessions conducted during the 2021 AMIA National Symposium. The sessions can be grouped under […]
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Nov. 12, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week and next, I will be summarizing my observations from virtually attending the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium 2021. I personally have a long history with AMIA. […]
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Oct. 29, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s blog examines our pandemic response, a science tech competition involving autonomous cars and the role of complex simulation software powered by AI. Pandemic quarterbacking The pandemic is still […]
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Oct. 15, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
In this week’s blog, I examine what happens when an algorithm’s prediction is wrong. I also look into how deep learning is shaping weather forecasting. The last story is on […]
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Oct. 8, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
In this week’s blog, I review the fascinating work titled AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan—a combination of fiction and non-fiction about a […]
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Sept. 24, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s blog revisits a recurring theme: biased algorithms. The other story revolves around the Brookings Institute findings on the state of distribution of AI. Biased algorithms This month, Health […]
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Sept. 17, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Neural database Last week I saw a blog on Facebook describing their efforts to design a new type of database called a neural database. A typical database has data […]
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Sept. 3, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Everyone knows about the appetite that deep learning models have for data, but they need to be properly labeled and curated to train models. The data needs to reflect its […]
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Aug. 23, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Code generation Over the years I have programmed in many languages, starting with Fortran IV in the early seventies. In those days, we had to punch the program instructions into […]
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Aug. 13, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Climate change and AI This week we saw the release of a new report from the UN on climate change. This tome of more than 1,300 pages has an executive […]
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Aug. 6, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
AI models for COVID-19 I was skimming through MIT Technology Review and I saw one article that stopped me cold. It proclaimed that hundreds of AI models were developed to […]
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Aug. 2, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Future of health care I listened with fascination to Dr. Gordon Moore’s interview with Nicholas Webb, CEO of LeaderLogic, last week on the 3M Inside Angle podcast. Webb’s views on […]
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July 19, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
SCOTUS ruling The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) recently dealt a blow to the American Hospital Association (AHA). What was the bone of contention? The AHA contended that […]
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July 9, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Wimbledon Analytics Fourth of July weekend is a time for celebration and relaxation. It is also the midway point for a 140-year-old tradition: Wimbledon. This two-week extravaganza, replete with countless […]
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June 25, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This blog marks my century mark with the 3M Inside Angle team – all in a little over two years! It has been a remarkable period for several reasons, the […]
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June 18, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Smart Clothes Forget wearable devices, these researchers from Purdue have a new vision for the future that is all about smart clothes. These clothes will monitor anything and everything about […]
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June 11, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Explainable AI? I came across an article in AI in Healthcare, about a study published in Nature Machine Intelligence. A lot of studies are claiming great results using black-box neural […]
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June 4, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Addressing health inequities One of the glaring impacts of the pandemic is that it has shined a bright spotlight on the health inequities plaguing this nation. Now there is a […]
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May 21, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
I am a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and I get all kinds of emails from them. Recently, I received two back-to-back emails with a curious theme: […]
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May 14, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Last weekend I was watching CBS 60 Minutes and listened with fascination to the interview of Michael Lewis. The storyline? A new book by Lewis that describes the foresight of […]
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May 7, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week I explore two polar opposite views: First, AI is hard and is nowhere close to performing at a human level, and second, AI is going to take away […]
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April 30, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Medical AI Devices Evaluation This month in Nature, Stanford University researchers published a constructive criticism on how AI medical devices are reviewed, evaluated and approved for public use. First, the […]
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April 23, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Genius Makers by Cade Metz Last month the book, Genius Makers – The mavericks who brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the world was released. The title was quite intriguing, […]
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April 16, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Debating with a machine The New Yorker published an article this week which piqued my interest. It was about how IBM’s effort to create a program, […]
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April 14, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
In this week’s blog, I want to focus on the annual prognostication from MIT Technology Review. This year is particularly relevant, as it marks two decades of such efforts by […]
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April 9, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
In the AI of the Beholder I saw this podcast by Jennifer Strong of MIT Technology Review which was eye-opening to say the least. Ever wonder how the Tik Tok […]
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April 2, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing and the future of Human Race by Walter Isaacson I came across this book recommendation on Amazon last weekend. I bought both the […]
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March 26, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
BakeryScan to cancer A fascinating story appeared in The New Yorker last week about an AI pastry program that morphed into a cancer detection program. The story describes a Japanese […]
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March 5, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Trustworthiness of AI in health care The Consumer Technology Association has just released a new ANSI Standard ANSI/CTA-2090: “The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: […]
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Feb. 26, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… “Who should stop unethical AI?” That is the intriguing title of an article in The New Yorker. There is now a spotlight on problems created by […]
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Feb. 19, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Future of health I came across a press release from UCI Institute for “Future Health” which intrigued me. UCI Institute’s research mission and goal are in […]
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Feb. 12, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… BOLD: Bias in Open-ended Language-generation Dataset I saw this article in VentureBeat about researchers releasing a new dataset that attempts to expose bias in language models. […]
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Feb. 5, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Predicting Breast Cancer This week, MIT News featured a good discussion of some fresh new research published in Science Translational Medicine. Adam Yala, an MIT researcher, led this multi-year, multi-site […]
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Jan. 29, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Fair treatment MIT Technology Review, my go to magazine for all things tech and AI, linked to an article in Nature this week. A team of […]
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Jan. 22, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Modeling inoculations Recently we have been hearing this familiar refrain: “Vaccines do not prevent COVID-19– vaccinations do!” It looks like we now have an approach to […]
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Jan. 15, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Regulating algorithms We need no further proof that AI has made inroads in our lives than to see fresh regulations being contemplated by New York City. The city has proposed […]
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Jan. 8, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Let me start by wishing everyone the very best for 2021! As vaccines begin to be distributed, with any luck we will return to a new normal by early summer. […]
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Dec. 18, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Gig Worker I saw this article in MIT Technology Review this week about the plight of the gig worker. The article features an interview with Professor […]
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Dec. 11, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Digital transformation in health care Digital transformation occurred in earnest a few decades ago in the financial sector. Every sector of the economy from travel, retail […]
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Dec. 4, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… AlphaFold – Solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge DeepMind, a subsidiary of Google, has released some groundbreaking research! University of Maryland Professor John Moult, who created […]
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Nov. 20, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
As the number of cases of COVID-19 surge, it is easy to get lost in the negative aspects of the pandemic. This week, I am focusing on three stories that […]
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Nov. 13, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s blog focuses on COVID-19, highlighting stories that shed light on how AI is helping folks deal with the pandemic. COVID-19 Cough Sensor A team at MIT has developed […]
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Nov. 6, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Federal Health IT Strategic Plan The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published their latest five-year strategic plan for the 2020-2025 period. I’ve reviewed […]
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Oct. 30, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… My friend sent me an article a few weeks ago on how Spotify recommends music to its listeners. It was an excellent article and it got […]
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Oct. 23, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Are we there yet? Not even close. I saw a fairly extensive article in MIT Technology Review exploring this theme. Of course, […]
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Oct. 16, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
As COVID-19 cases continue to creep up, I wanted to assess the state of analytics with respect to the disease. AI and machine learning have been central to the data […]
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Oct. 9, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Over the weekend I came across a nice summarization of recent advances in Conversational AI Agents and found these advances interesting. I covered GPT-3 in an earlier blog post, but […]
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Oct. 2, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Normally, I don’t comment on marketing material, but these two stories are a bit out of the ordinary. Mercedes AVTR In Futureloop’s email digest I saw a reference to a […]
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Sept. 25, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Bias in AI From time to time I have explored the topic of bias in AI. I came across another article on this front recently which has a nice summary […]
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Sept. 18, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Speech to Text The Economist had a recent article on how dictation can be used to write text. The article makes some good points. Anyone who has actually tried to […]
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Sept. 4, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s I will focus on new wearable devices announced recently that seek to make us healthier. One is from the tech supergiant Amazon and another from a crowdsourced startup […]
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Aug. 28, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week we focus on algorithms. An example of an application ill-suited for automation and two that are well suited. Algorithm to speed up MRI scans FastMRI is a joint […]
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Aug. 21, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Tele-Surgery Came across an article in Wired this week which showcased the impact of COVID-19 in the field of tele-surgery. The article talks about how to address COVID-19 concerns; University […]
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Aug. 14, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
I want to highlight two different AI applications this week—one involving forecasting COVID-19 cases and the other to help estimate all of the calories you eat while being forced to […]
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Aug. 7, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
I saw a spate of articles surrounding a new mega language model from Open AI. This blog attempts to summarize this new development. Generative Pretrained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) What in […]
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July 31, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… I heard a talk at the 2020 International Conference on Machine Learning a few weeks back on the topic of “Doing Some Good with Machine Learning.” […]
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July 24, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
I was not looking to create a themed blog this week, but it turns out I found three different articles all related to pictures! Generate pictures GPT-2 is a powerful […]
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July 15, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… We have all heard the phrase: “A picture is worth a thousand words.” I saw that literally come to life last week! The occasion was the […]
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July 10, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Recently, I attended the annual American Telehealth Association conference. If there is one thing I am happy about concerning the current health emergency, it is the […]
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June 26, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Two articles caught my attention this week – one AI in Healthcare article on a list of Technology Pioneers curated by World Economic Forum and the other from MIT Technology […]
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June 19, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Furor over face recognition Last week, Amazon shocked everyone by announcing that it is going to place a one-year moratorium on police use of its facial […]
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June 12, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
No specific theme this week on AI Talk. Just a collection of interesting stories! New Tele-Critical-Care model proposed I came across a new proposal published in the Telemedicine and e-Health […]
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June 5, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
As the pandemic spread in March and April, the nation went into lockdown and the number of cases began to climb, one factor became patently obvious: poor and minority communities […]
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May 22, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week, I am focusing on AI models. A colleague pointed me to an article that suggests AI models are faring poorly. Then I saw three more articles with the […]
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May 15, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… COVID-19 diagnostic testing approaches One of the continuing issues related to the current pandemic crisis is the availability of testing and confusing media coverage about the […]
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May 8, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week, I am focusing on the topic of drug discovery. It’s clear that COVID-19, has unleashed the collective intellectual might of the whole world to find a cure. When […]
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May 1, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… As we weather the ravages of the current pandemic, we see several states slowly opening back up. What are the short-term and long-term implications of this […]
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April 24, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week I am going to review two books I read this month—both examining AI and related technologies and their implications. One was written by Diamandis and Kotler: The Future […]
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April 17, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Tracking the path of COVID-19 A fascinating new approach to tracking the COVID-19 virus migration during this pandemic comes from a software called Nextstrain. This tool […]
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April 10, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Modeling the virus course Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the main faces behind the evolving guidelines promulgated to fight the spread of the coronavirus, has quoted […]
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March 27, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… New Normal – Clinician response to Covid-19 I saw this commentary by Dr. Thomas Lee on NEJM Catalyst. He gives his perspective on the virus as […]
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March 20, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… COVID-19 and Telehealth Telehealth has been knocking at our doors for almost a decade. Now, it looks like the COVID-19 pandemic is the tipping point making […]
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March 13, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Predicting COVID-19 structure I came across this effort on the DeepMind website. DeepMind researchers have been working on predicting protein structures—dubbed the “protein folding problem”—for a […]
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Feb. 28, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Breakthrough Technologies This week, MIT Technology Review released 10 breakthrough technologies for 2020. An interesting list and there are a few that focus on health: Hyper-personalized […]
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Feb. 21, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Guides to building AI systems AI-based solutions and systems are popping up all around us. How does one ensure these systems are effective? Useful? Safe? Ethical? […]
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Feb. 17, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Out of sheer coincidence, I ran across a number of articles related to the use of robots in a variety of settings. It is interesting to […]
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Feb. 7, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Bingo for kids The word bingo conjures up images of senior citizens congregating in a community center with a bunch of cards with numbers and a […]
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Jan. 31, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… We have all heard of data mining, but have you heard of the term argument mining? Turns out it is an active area of research in […]
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Jan. 24, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… The Price We Pay – Book Review I recently heard about the pioneering work being done by Dr. Marty Makary on healthcare prices. He is speaking […]
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Jan. 17, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… AI and Patent law This week in MIT Technology Review, I saw an interesting article with the thesis “Can a machine be a holder of a […]
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Jan. 10, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk.. CES The big news of this week is of course the Consumer Electronic Show (CES), with over 175,000 attendees and 4,500 companies exhibiting—it must be a […]
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Jan. 3, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” – this timeless quote from Charles Dicken’s Tale of Two Cities, is surprisingly apropos […]
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Dec. 13, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Algorithmovigilance A cool new word! I saw reference to this in an AMIA communication (1). Coined by Peter Embi of the Regenstrief Institute, it essentially means […]
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Dec. 6, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Bias in AI – Three perspectives The New York Times published an article on bias in AI as part of their Women and Leadership section. They […]
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Nov. 15, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Apple Watch A new study using Apple Watch heart monitoring capabilities has just been published by the New England Journal of Medicine. The study, funded by […]
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Nov. 8, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Science fiction meets science reality? Remember in the Superman movie when the bad guys were imprisoned in a plane of glass and banished to roam the […]
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Nov. 1, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Top-10 medical innovations Last week, Cleveland Clinic released their latest ranking of the top 10 innovations that will shape clinical care in 2020. The ranking is […]
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Oct. 25, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Human Compatible: AI and the problem of control – Stuart Russell. Book review. Stuart Russell is a well-known Professor and AI researcher. His book on AI […]
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Oct. 18, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Bigger is better? The trend line is clear: First we had a language representation model named after a beloved muppet character, Elmo. This language model had […]
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Oct. 11, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust – Gary Marcus & Ernest Davis The emperor has no clothes—at least that is the allegorical message conveyed […]
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Sept. 30, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Future of wearables A recent paper published in the American Society of Clinical Oncology gave a good summary of the role of wearable technologies in health care. […]
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Sept. 20, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) Last week, Fortune had an in-depth article on a new piece of consumer protection legislation that will become law January 1, […]
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Sept. 13, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… App economy and privacy The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is working on legislation which will require health systems to share information with patients […]
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Sept. 6, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Emotional AI Fortune featured an interesting video interview this week with the CEO of Affectiva, Rana el Kaliouby. Affectiva is a spin-off from MIT Media Lab. What does the company […]
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Aug. 23, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… 230,000 That’s the number of participants the National Institute of Health has managed to recruit for its Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) cohort. The information was published […]
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Aug. 16, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… 10,000 steps per day That’s the mantra preached by the medical establishment as a gateway to good health. Last month, the Journal of the American Medical […]
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Aug. 9, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Predicting Kidney Injury The Wall Street Journal had an article this week on Google’s Deepmind division getting closer to a solution that predicts various kidney conditions. […]
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Aug. 5, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… FHIR on fire Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR), pronounced as “fire,” is HL7 healthcare interoperability standards specification. Early in 2019, ONC and CMS signaled that they […]
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July 19, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Precision medicine I saw an article in Newsweek this week talking about precision medicine. It was written by Brandon Suh, CEO of Lunit. The article itself […]
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July 12, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… AI Healthcare Trends Last month, Forbes featured an article summarizing the trends in health care impacted by AI. The author, Terence Mills, is the CEO of […]
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June 28, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Dark patterns This week, the New York Times featured an article that talks about “dark patterns.” This term, coined almost a decade ago, is well known […]
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June 21, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Curative apps and business model I saw a reference to this interesting news article in AMIA Daily Download. It’s about how one digital app called Big […]
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June 14, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Avatars as a proxy for human contact? A few months ago, the New York Times featured an article about the role of technology in mimicking human […]
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June 7, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Ghost work – book review I am frequently on Amazon buying some book or other and they know what I read! Their recommendation system came through […]
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May 31, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Alexa, remote monitoring and virtual visits This Fortune article is about new trends in health care—remote monitoring and virtual visits. Alexa can now transmit patient data! […]
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May 24, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Lung cancer detection I saw this article in one of my usual haunts—MIT Technology Review! Using a corpus of CT Scans licensed from Northwestern, Google researcher […]
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May 17, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… AI in Healthcare – Augment not replace This article in Forbes contains a now familiar refrain that we have heard before: AI use cases in health […]
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May 10, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Google Street View A few years ago, researchers from Stanford and other institutions published a study that made use of Google Street View images. They showed […]
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May 3, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… AI-clinics The future is rapidly creeping up on us in unlikely places: Safeway stores. Safeway stores in Arizona are offering ways to be seen for illness […]
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April 26, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Driverless cars and wearable AI I saw a link in an Algorithm blog to this talk at MIT last month. It is a recording from a […]
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April 19, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Algorithmic Accountability Act I saw this (where else?) in a newsletter aptly dubbed “The Algorithm” from MIT Tech Review. It focuses on newly introduced legislation in […]
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April 12, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… HIPAA-compliant Alexa, Google I saw an article in Geek Wire about Alexa becoming Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) privacy rule compliant. It indeed has, as […]
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April 5, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Book Review: Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again Dr. Eric Topol has boiled down an ocean of work in his book—all related […]
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March 29, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Federated Learning to overcome privacy issues Anyone working with health information knows that getting access to clinical data for any purpose is a non-trivial exercise. PHI—protected […]
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March 22, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Muppet invasion in machine learning In this week’s AI Talk, I’m going to do a deep dive into a hot topic in the field: It’s the […]
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March 15, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… War and Possible Minds On almost every front we are now bombarded by the potential for good, evil and stupidity (bugs) with emerging AI technology. If […]
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March 8, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… AI powered solution for Radiology An Israel-based company called Zebra-Med has rolled out its deep learning acute-insights triage solution, which has received CE certification in Europe […]
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March 1, 2019 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
Inside Angle welcomes V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD, to the blogging team! As Vice President of Research for M*Modal, Juggy builds on four decades of research in artificial intelligence and computer science […]