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Re: Midjourney Medical

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I wish them all the best and hope they succeed, but can’t help but suspect they’ve fallen into deep LLM psychosis. Even if you assume they can build this thing and it works as described and then get past all the regulatory hurdles, the scale of infrastructure they’re talking about is enormous.

> David Holz is the Founder & CEO of Midjourney, a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform that allows users to generate unique artwork such as characters, images and depictions through short text prompts.

I guess they pivoted from making ai-artwork to ultrasounds?

Re: Midjourney Medical

#35

https://x.com/midjourney/status/2067422898407837797?s=20

This covers a lot more details than the announcement.

EDIT: Actually looks like their announcement has another page linked for more details containing this video.

Re: Midjourney Medical

#37
post #28

I wish them all the best and hope they succeed, but can’t help but suspect they’ve fallen into deep LLM psychosis. Even if you assume they can build this thing and it works as described and then get past all the regulatory hurdles, the scale of infrastructure they’re talking about is enormous.

You can just build things

Re: Midjourney Medical

#38

I'm sorry, a billion full-body scans a month? For what possible reasons? Are people going to be doing these things recreationally? Cause otherwise you're talking about scanning the entire world's population, including the very young, the very old, the mobility-impaired, and those without easy access to US-based facilities (i.e.... people who are part of the small fraction of the global population who do not live in t…

Lol. This isnt for everyone. This is for the rich. They are going to sell these things for personal use, for installation in homes. Take the top 100,000 families in the US, those that can afford a home unit. Scans then become as normal as taking a bath.

We are well on our way to that classic scifi trope of the villian being introduced as they soak a special tub of goop. (Dune, GOTG, Star Wars)

Re: Midjourney Medical

#39
Why is everyone so negative about this? Getting a CT or X-ray and then having AI do early screening on cases that doctors can pass along doesn't seem like a bad idea to me.

Re: Midjourney Medical

#40
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I don't really understand the connection; they went from image generation to medical scanning?

is it not similar? taking raw data, some vector of data and constructing a visual image

There's deterministic algos for it and have existed for ages.

Medical imaging is literally the last of the last places where you want to hallucinate a tiny little blob.

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