HUMAN beings used to be just a part of the natural world of Earth. In quite low numbers. We were a sort of clever chimpanzee – but with more space for reasoning and language. Our numbers grew and we did very well, even if our newly-grown cortex brain was hamstrung by the way evolution kept […]
Engage your empathy to succeed in an AI world
You can hear your own heartbeat – if you sit still, in a quiet room, and listen carefully enough. This human capacity is very good news – especially now something like a third or even half of our current jobs will be taken from us by Artificially Intelligent machines sometime in the next two decades. […]
Let’s Use Tech To Prioritise HEALTH – Not Treatment
In the old days, there were two types of medical care: the fast way and the slow way. The fast kind of medical care was based around skills developed on the battlefield and was the province of the barber-surgeons, who were people good with knives, and good at minimising pain by making interventions… very, very […]
Artificial Intelligence In Medicine – Maximizing the benefits
Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence has started working with the doctors and computers at London’s Royal Free Hospital Trust; many of the first questions being asked concentrate on data security and patient confidentiality. About 1.6m patients a month are seen by the three hospitals that the Trust covers and, according to an agreement seen by the […]