Latest videos about AI in healthcare
AI won't necessarily displace skilled devs - it'll just move their value up the chain
- AI can perform tasks like X-ray analysis much faster and more efficiently than human radiographers, potentially achieving in a week what takes a human five years of experience. - The speaker suggests that AI won't necessarily displace professionals but rather shift their value up the chain, similar to how car ownership changed from horse and buggy maintenance. - The analogy of horse and buggy to cars highlights how technology changes the required skills (e.g., feeding a horse vs. driving a car without knowing how to repair it). - The fundamental utility of technology remains constant (e.g., transport, medicine, software creation), but the specific tasks and roles of professionals evolve with technological advancements. - The role of a software engineer, for instance, will change in the process of creating robust, scalable, usable, and likable software.
Midjourney's next product wants to get inside you...
- **Midjourney Medical Initiative**: Midjourney, known for AI image generation, is launching a new division called Midjourney Medical with the goal of reimagining healthcare foundations and our relationship with our bodies. - **Ultrasonic CT Technology**: They are developing an accessible medical imaging device called ultrasonic CT. This device uses half a million tiny sensors in a warm water pool to fire ultrasonic waves through the body, creating detailed internal images at nearly 100 times the speed of traditional MRIs. - **Midjourney Spa Concept**: To make scans more common and appealing, Midjourney plans to launch Midjourney Spa, a 25,000 sq ft space in San Francisco by late 2027. The spa will offer a relaxing environment where full-body scans happen as a side effect of a spa day. - **Challenges and Future Outlook**: Doctors express skepticism, noting that ultrasound struggles with air and bone, making lungs and brains invisible. The technology is also in early stages, with prototypes taking 20 minutes (goal is 60 seconds) and lacking FDA clearance for disease detection. Midjourney aims for FDA approval, hardware refinement, and a fleet of 50,000 machines by 2031 to provide monthly scans to a billion people. - **Focus on Human Experience**: The speaker highlights Midjourney's unique position as a bootstrapped and profitable AI lab, allowing them to focus on improving the human experience through accessible health optimizations, a contrast to other frontier AI labs.