Tech & Society
Data — From Patient to Health Record: AI automatically fills out electronic health records.
Doctors are overwhelmed by clerical work. Healthcare-savvy voice assistants are picking up the slack.
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Science
Treatment — The Elusive Molecule: How deep learning could speed up drug discovery
Will deep learning discover new medicines? Startups — and big-pharma partners — are betting on it. The problem: In theory, there’s a pharmacological cure for just about any ailment. In practice, discovering those therapies takes years and billions of dollars.
Tech & Society
Prognosis — Early Warning for Sepsis: AI can provide an early warning for sepsis.
An AI-driven alarm system helps rescue patients before infections become fatal. The problem: Machine learning can spot patterns in electronic health data indicating where a patient’s condition is headed that may be too subtle for doctors and nurses to catch.
Tech & Society
Diagnosis — The Telltale Heart: How a company is using AI to monitor hearth health
The wearable revolution is helping doctors figure out what’s troubling your ticker — thanks to deep learning. The problem: Arrhythmias, a range of conditions in which the heart beats too fast, too slow, or erratically, can cause heart attack or stroke.
Interviews & Essays
A Visionary Doctor Prescribes AI: Dr. Eric Topol makes the case for AI in medicine.
Eric Topol is one of the world’s leading advocates for AI in medicine. Below he shares his insights into the fusion of AI and medicine and advice for machine learning engineers who want to get involved.
Letters
Medical Applications of AI
This week’s issue of The Batch is all about medical applications of AI. Amid the current pandemic, the marriage of AI and medicine is more urgent than ever. My father is a practicing doctor, and I grew up seeing firsthand how the right...
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: AI For Medicine Special! Eric Topol’s Planetary Health System, Discovering Drugs, Diagnosing Heart Disease
This week’s issue of The Batch is all about medical applications of AI. Amid the current pandemic, the marriage of AI and medicine is more urgent than ever. My father is a practicing doctor, and I grew up seeing firsthand how the right...
Science
(Science) Community Outreach: A survey of machine learning from Eric Schmidt
Are your scientist friends intimidated by machine learning? They might be inspired by a primer from one of the world’s premier tech titans. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Cornell PhD candidate Maithra Raghu school scientists in machine learning in a sprawling overview.
Machine Learning Research
Outside the Norm: Batch normalization contributes to neural network accuracy.
Batch normalization is a technique that normalizes layer outputs to accelerate neural network training. But new research shows that it has other effects that may be more important.
Tech & Society
Data Augmentation in 3D: How Waymo augments 3D lidar data for self-driving cars
An unconventional approach to modifying data is cutting the amount of work required to train self-driving cars. Waymo unveiled a machine learning pipeline that varies lidar scans representing pedestrians and other objects.
Business
Robots to Hollywood — Call My Agent: A talent agency specializes in automated actors.
Seeking a robot star for your movie, music video, or bat mitzvah? You need a new breed of talent scout. Ai-gen-cy is an artist management firm that exclusively represents robots, reports GeekWire.
Machine Learning Research
Beyond Neural Architecture Search: AutoML-Zero is a meta-algorithm for classification.
Faced with a classification task, an important step is to browse the catalog of machine learning architectures to find a good performer. Researchers are exploring ways to do it automatically.