Enrico Coiera

@enricocoiera
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Healthcare | Artificial Intelligence. Professor of Medical Informatics Macquarie University. Director NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Digital Health
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When things get tough, just stop and ask yourself “What would ChatGPT do?”
Changes are emerging across the climate system. Everywhere we look, the climate is changing rapidly.
Rate of recent changes is unprecedented in at least 2000 years for many climate metrics.
These changes are not natural; they are primarily caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

“I understand that ChatGPT is in its infancy but perhaps that is the emerging horror of AI – that it will forever be in its infancy, as it will always have further to go" - Nick Cave on the many songs written by the algorithm in his style ...

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/17/this-song-sucks-nick-cave-responds-to-chatgpt-song-written-in-style-of-nick-cave

‘This song sucks’: Nick Cave responds to ChatGPT song written in style of Nick Cave

Singer-songwriter dissects lyrics produced by popular chatbot, saying it is ‘a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human’

The Guardian

[New paper]

The case for including microbial sequences in the electronic health record.

in Nature Medicine, with the wonderful Vitali Sintchenko, infectious disease informatician extraordinaire ...

https://t.co/33kCOyhVKa

The case for including microbial sequences in the electronic health record - Nature Medicine

Integrating microbial sequencing data into electronic health records, while presenting privacy concerns, will improve patient care and population health and will expand the secondary uses of such data.

Nature
The reproducibility issues that haunt health-care AI https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00023-2
The reproducibility issues that haunt health-care AI

Health-care systems are rolling out artificial-intelligence tools for diagnosis and monitoring. But how reliable are the models?

I don't even know where to start with this one. Apparently the mental health service kokocares.org ran a multi-day trial on 4000 users without their informed consent, in which koko's "peer supporters" used ChatGPT to craft their responses to the people they were providing with mental health support.

https://www.businessinsider.com/company-using-chatgpt-mental-health-support-ethical-issues-2023-1

Company using ChatGPT for mental health support raises ethical issues

Koko, a digital mental health nonprofit, said it used GPT-3 chatbots to help inform develop responses to 4,000 users on its peer support platform.

Insider
Australian universities to return to ‘pen and paper’ exams after students caught using AI to write essays

Australia’s leading universities say redesign of how students are assessed is ‘critical’ in the face of a revolution in computer-generated text

The Guardian
New York City schools ban AI chatbot that writes essays and answers prompts

ChatGPT tool will be forbidden across all devices and networks in public schools over ‘concerns about negative impacts on learning’

The Guardian
Drone advances amid war in Ukraine could bring fighting robots to front lines https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/drone-advances-amid-war-in-ukraine-could-bring-fighting-robots-to-front-lines
Drone advances amid war in Ukraine could bring fighting robots to front lines

Drone advances in Ukraine have accelerated a technology trend that could soon bring the world's first fully autonomous robots to the battlefield and inaugurate a new age of warfare.

PBS NewsHour

One of my new years resolutions is to blog (from time to time) about interesting work in AI. I'm trying out Substack for this. My first post is a perspective on recent paper by Webb et al., "Emergent Analogical Reasoning in Large Language Models".

https://aiguide.substack.com/

AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans

I write about interesting new developments in AI. Click to read AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans, by Melanie Mitchell, a Substack publication with thousands of readers.