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AI health coaching: Risk vs. benefit

As health care analyst Katie Suleta points out, familiar problems like bias and hallucination could impact the health advice the AI coach gives
Maybe it comes down to the traditional advice about the internet in general: If it sounds unbelievable, don’t believe it, and when in doubt, doubt. Read More ›
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AI Can Help Spot Cancers—But It’s No Magic Wand

When I spoke last month about how AI can help with cancer diagnoses, I failed to appreciate some of the complexities of medical diagnosis

As a lawyer with medical training reminded us recently, any one image is a snapshot in time, a brief part of the patient’s whole story. And it’s the whole story that matters, not a single image, perhaps taken out of context.

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