The hottest Medical AI Substack posts right now

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Why All Mammograms Should Incorporate A.I.

Ground Truths • 8135 implied HN points • 08 Feb 26
🏥 Health & Wellness Medical AI
  1. AI makes mammogram reading more accurate and finds more cancers earlier, including smaller and aggressive tumors. It also significantly reduces radiologists' screening workload.
  2. AI can predict five-year breast cancer risk from a standard mammogram, letting clinicians target high-risk women for closer surveillance or preventive testing like MRI or genetic workups.
  3. AI can identify breast arterial calcification on mammograms, which signals higher heart disease risk and lets mammography serve as a two-for-one screen for cancer and cardiovascular risk.

Import AI 371: CCP vs Finetuning; why people are skeptical of AI policy; a synthesizer for a LLM

Import AI • 439 implied HN points • 06 May 24
🕹 Technology Medical AI
  1. People are skeptical of AI safety policy as different views arise from the same technical information, making it important to consider varied perspectives.
  2. Chinese researchers have developed a method called SOPHON to openly release AI models while preventing finetuning for misuse, offering a solution for protecting against subsequent harm.
  3. Automating intelligence analysis through datasets like OpenStreetView-5M will enhance training machine learning systems for geolocation, leading to potential applications in both military intelligence and civilian sectors.

When ChatGPT is better than your doctor

Digital Epidemiology • 19 implied HN points • 01 May 23
🏥 Health & Wellness Medical AI
  1. ChatGPT can outperform doctors in providing quality and empathetic responses to patient questions.
  2. AI models interfacing directly with patients will significantly change the future of medicine.
  3. Most health-related interactions in the future may be with AI models rather than humans, requiring a focus on safety and effectiveness.

Smarter Learning Rates, Medical AI, and Compiler Innovations

HackerPulse Dispatch • 2 implied HN points • 20 Dec 24
🕹 Technology Medical AI
  1. New learning rate techniques, like SGD-SaI, are making AI training more efficient and using less memory. This means large models can learn better and faster.
  2. AI is showing amazing skills in medical tasks, sometimes even better than doctors, but it still has some limitations in certain areas.
  3. There are advancements in AI compilers that help optimize how programs run, making them more efficient. This is important for developing smarter AI systems.
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Why AI doctors should not be FDA regulated

More is Different • 7 implied HN points • 15 Jul 23
🕹 Technology Medical AI
  1. The current FDA system for AI regulation may not be sustainable due to the growing number of applications and the high costs involved in getting AI systems approved.
  2. The FDA is not equipped to regulate general-purpose AI systems like advanced AI doctors, leading to potential delays in innovation and challenges in handling new technologies.
  3. People have the right to access information from AI systems for medical advice, similar to consulting books or other resources, which raises questions about the need for FDA regulation.

General Catalyst Buys a Hospital

Discharge Summary • 0 implied HN points • 21 Jan 24
🏥 Health & Wellness Medical AI
  1. General Catalyst acquires Summa Health, a nonprofit health system, shifting from non-profit to for-profit.
  2. Concerns arise about revenue models and potential changes in practice infrastructure with the acquisition.
  3. The acquisition aims to modernize healthcare with the latest technology, potentially impacting patient care and provider preference.