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NeurIPS 2023: Expo Day

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Re: NeurIPS 2023: Expo Day

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I wonder if it can handle 3D MRI images...probably not. :(

that's a horrible idea. careless use of machine learning in medicine is one of the few legitimate "AI safety" cases worthy of concern. ML is far too unreliable and doctors too illiterate for medical imagery diagnostics to be safe without an extremely careful approach. unfortunately, the cat's out of the bag and what is currently in use in hospitals around the world is far scarier than misuse of diagnostics. GE has ir…

> ML is far too unreliable and doctors too illiterate for medical imagery diagnostics to be safe without an extremely careful approach.

"Safe" isn't always the only objective. In some cases access to "unsafe" medical AI is better than nothing.

Your mindset is shaped by living in a wealthy country. Do you know much about the medical systems of countries with $1000 GDP per capita? Most poor people in these countries don't have access to a doctor. The wait times in public are so long and cumbersome (and still cost an arm and a leg) that they don't even bother going. Then they die. It's not the country's fault, that's just the reality of poverty, there aren't enough trained doctors.

The only honest comparison therefore is not always "doctor vs AI" it's "nothing vs AI".

Re: NeurIPS 2023: Expo Day

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Positron AI (inference accelerator) is a new one for me, I hadn't heard of it and it looks like they down have a website. Anyone know more about it?

I had a chance to chat to them again today, and wrote some more details here: https://mlcontests.com/neurips-2023/tutorials/#exhibit-hall

Also as the other comment mentioned, https://positron.ai seems to be live now.

Re: NeurIPS 2023: Expo Day

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Positron AI (inference accelerator) is a new one for me, I hadn't heard of it and it looks like they down have a website. Anyone know more about it?

I had a chance to chat to them again today, and wrote some more details here: https://mlcontests.com/neurips-2023/tutorials/#exhibit-hall Also as the other comment mentioned, https://positron.ai seems to be live now.

Thanks! It looks like the ASIC inference space (if we can it that) is getting more popular. There is also https://www.etched.ai/ that I recently saw.

I didn't follow asic mining during the bitcoin bubble but I have the impression it was the way to go for mining. I don't see why that wouldn't be true for inference, a long as one is ok being limited in flexibility and wed to a particular architecture.

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