18 June 2019

12 quotes and headlines that set the scene for medical AI

Insights

  1. “What is the fate of medicine in the time of AI?. Our fate is to change” -The Lancet, 392, 2331, 2018
  2. “Move fast and break things…unfortunately in medical AI that means kill people” – Prof Enrico Coiera, AAAIH
  3. ““I think that if you work as a radiologist you are like Wile E. Coyote …You’re already over the edge of the cliff, but you haven’t yet looked down yet.” –  Geoffrey Hinton –father of neural networks
  4. Google Allo suggested man in turban emoji as response to a gun emoji (headline)
  5. Addendum to Asimov’s Laws (on robots)“Genocide….bad.”   – Prof Enrico Coiera , 2019
  6. “AI will most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies.” –  Sam Altman (Chairman, OpenAPI)
  7. “If you trust software, you tend to believe it”  – Enrico Coiera, 2019, on Mosier & Skitka’s, 1996 definition of automation bias – ‘the tendency to use automated cues as a heuristic replacement for vigilant information seeking and processing
  8. Amazon Alexa starts a party – and the neighbuors call the cops (headline)
  9. “Any doctor who loses his or her job because of AI deserves to lose their job” – Nathan Pinskier – GP and ex RACGP e-committee head…and many others now
  10. Man killed in Tesla auto-drive crash may have been watching Harry Potter (headline)
  11. “We can’t replace empathy”  – New Scientist – 2018
  12. “I for one welcome our new robot overlords” – increasingly popular internet meme