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DeepMind readies first commercial product

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Re: DeepMind readies first commercial product

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What’s next, an AI to make a judicial verdict? Seriously though, this is very exciting. I can imagine a future in which medical diagnosis is damn near 100% accurate - all you need to do is lay down and get scanned and smelled by an all in one machine and your diagnosis is displayed with recommended treatment. If treatable with drugs or molecular repair, done on the spot.

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AI is being developed to make MRI scans 10x faster. https://www.forbes.com/sites/samshead/2018/08/20/facebook-ai... If DeepMind is trained on millions of MRI’s, we might have better preventative medicine.

This assumes that’s what medical companies want. If we get closer to full value based care, then yes.

Which medical company doesn't want to move costs down?

You don't need high costs to charge a lot.

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What’s next, an AI to make a judicial verdict? Seriously though, this is very exciting. I can imagine a future in which medical diagnosis is damn near 100% accurate - all you need to do is lay down and get scanned and smelled by an all in one machine and your diagnosis is displayed with recommended treatment. If treatable with drugs or molecular repair, done on the spot.

> an AI to make a judicial verdict?

There is some discussion towards this direction: https://www.wired.com/story/can-ai-be-fair-judge-court-eston...

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post #9

AI is being developed to make MRI scans 10x faster. https://www.forbes.com/sites/samshead/2018/08/20/facebook-ai... If DeepMind is trained on millions of MRI’s, we might have better preventative medicine.

Idk. A lot of the applications of AI to compressed sensing are resulting in plausible but inaccurate data being filled in. This is fine for, say, video games, but not as great for medical imaging I'd guess.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This assumes that’s what medical companies want. If we get closer to full value based care, then yes.

Which medical company doesn't want to move costs down? You don't need high costs to charge a lot.

If your business is making money on treating issues, preventing them isn’t aligned. Worst case, you neglect issues until they get to a point where you start making money. Legacy dialysis business is a good exsmple - they need ass-in-seats to justify clinics, so prevention isn’t as big a priority. Also, doctors often have shares in clinic revenue.

Re: DeepMind readies first commercial product

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AI is being developed to make MRI scans 10x faster. https://www.forbes.com/sites/samshead/2018/08/20/facebook-ai... If DeepMind is trained on millions of MRI’s, we might have better preventative medicine.

Is that really the way to make the MRI faster? It seems like a time and motion problem. You lie in the machine for a long time but there's a lot of slack; the actual image process takes up barely any of the time. Remainder of time is spent waiting for things to whiz around and for the tech to click "next" on their console.

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post #15

What’s next, an AI to make a judicial verdict? Seriously though, this is very exciting. I can imagine a future in which medical diagnosis is damn near 100% accurate - all you need to do is lay down and get scanned and smelled by an all in one machine and your diagnosis is displayed with recommended treatment. If treatable with drugs or molecular repair, done on the spot.

> an AI to make a judicial verdict? There is some discussion towards this direction: https://www.wired.com/story/can-ai-be-fair-judge-court-eston...

I hope AI can assist in the knowledge gathering phases, and for civil cases I think it can be a huge value add.

For criminal cases though: the current judicial system is wayy too punitive. And an AI that would apply the letter of the law would likely criminalize society even more than what has already happened so far.

One happy scenario would be if the laws were more responsive and were changed to not be so punitive since the AI would have a high rate of conviction.

But then, you might have other failure scenarios. Rich people buying AI programmers and hackers to mess with the system.

Its a constant game of outsmarting the latest tech.

Re: DeepMind readies first commercial product

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AI is being developed to make MRI scans 10x faster. https://www.forbes.com/sites/samshead/2018/08/20/facebook-ai... If DeepMind is trained on millions of MRI’s, we might have better preventative medicine.

"Using AI, it may be possible to capture less data and therefore scan faster, while preserving or even enhancing the rich information content of magnetic resonance images, says Facebook.

The key will be to train artificial neural networks to recognise the underlying structure of the images in order to fill in detail omitted from an accelerated scan."

Ah, right, what I want is for an ANN to invent information in a medical image. It's one thing to upscale textures in a game, but I can't see the use for this at all in a medical imaging device.

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