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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.” […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]