DeepMind founder behind NHS data slurp to be beamed up to Google mothership Mustafa Suleyman, one of the founders of DeepMind, is to join Google's applied AI division. In August, Suleyman took "some personal time for a break to recharge" but promised he would return to DeepMind. Instead he's off to work with Jeff Dean and Kent Walker at Google looking at applied AI and health. The move underlines …
I can relate - I recently bought a metal lathe on eBay and since I disable some of the tracking add-ons so the site doesn't break, I was immediately told that people who bought this metal lathe also bought this other metal lathe.
Friends report similar when purchasing a car online via relevant dealership.
Places must think we're made of money or something.
My metalwork apron has pockets. --->
There are two separate issues that require more work:
a) does AI potentially provide useful assistance in healthcare? While the suspicion is yes, it seems a little immature at present with some of the early claims being wound back due to having significant caveats and insufficient data (i.e. a lot of medical data is weighted towards white men). While I have no issues with small, incremental improvements, this doesn't justify wholesale access to medical records.
b) access to medical information should require informed consent with clear guidelines around exactly how can that information be used and, in the event it is misused or "lost", ensure adequate compensation is paid to those who are affected. For instance if medical data with PII is provided to insurance companies.
While point (b) makes point (a) harder, I'm not convinced at this point that the benefits justify any potential risks of mis-use. What is the point in having a medical issue that is treatable due to AI when you can't get insurance to cover the treatment?
I've meet rather a lot of people in my life who've had absolutely no interest in computing or buying a computer. Few actively hostile but wanting nothing to do with them --- only changed by smartphones if you think people using smartphones are using computers. And fair play to them; no-one ought to be made to like anything.
Yet with with this, totally unsought, their normal lives are computerized by villains.
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