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”  […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 ** […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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: […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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: […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.” […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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? […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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! […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]