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, 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 […]

There are thousands of wellness apps, hundreds if not thousands of devices, apps and tools that can be used for chronic disease management, all of them adding their streams to […]

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… 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… 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? […]