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 […]