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Feb 14, 2024·Beckers Hospital Review

Healthcare leaders highlight the importance of safe AI use, especially as healthcare is set to be a major adopter of AI. They've built an AI platform to ensure safety and monitor its use. Potential dangers include increasing bias, data breaches, replacing human workers, and automating crucial tasks, but healthcare's cautious nature may restrict AI's risks. Automation of key judgments against the Hippocratic Oath may be avoided except for minor tasks like smart scheduling. Fear of bias and incomplete datasets causing harm exists, but health leaders' responsibility is to ensure AI's safe use within healthcare. AI can be viewed as another team member, always reviewed by a senior human.

Feb 14, 2024·Time

Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun discusses challenges to achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Meta's open-source philosophy, and dismisses existential risk claims. LeCun asserts that increasing data and computing power won't lead to AGI as current AI systems lack understanding of the physical world and can't plan beyond their training. He also argues that full intelligence isn't necessary for AI, instead championing incremental advancement towards 'cat-level' intelligence. LeCun supports AI development in an open-source environment, emphasizing AI's future role mediating our digital interaction and information sources. On AI security risks, LeCun counters that well-designed AIs can overpower ill-intentioned AIs. He also calls the idea of AI dominance 'fallacy' and 'preposterous'.

Feb 14, 2024·VentureBeat

OpenAI upgrades chatbot ChatGPT, introducing persistent memory, enabling app to recall user info across different sessions. Initially available to selected free and paid users; useful in work and personal contexts. Memory can be managed and deleted; concerns over bias and sensitive info being addressed. Future roll-out expected for Enterprise and Teams users, as competition in AI assistance heightens.

Feb 13, 2024·WSJ

AI-driven cloud revenue growth reported; early-stage AI projects boost cloud use. Despite AI's enterprise adoption challenges, Amazon, Google and Microsoft credit AI for their cloud business growth. AI tests and proof of concepts boost infrastructure demand. Risks persist due to failure of translating proof of concepts into ROI generating solutions.

Feb 13, 2024·BeckersHospitalReview

Tampa General Hospital, under Dr. Peter Chang, focuses on patient-engaged transformation and care coordination. The hospital home program uses technology for patient-oriented treatment. Further plans include incorporating more home-based services like urgent care, and AI to expedite diagnosis and care planning. A multidisciplinary approach ensures careful technology adoption, embracing a growth mindset aiming for continued improvement in healthcare.

Feb 13, 2024·Healthcare IT News

AI and large language models (LLMs) in healthcare can improve delivery and management but face challenges in data privacy, security, bias, regulations, and precision. AI can help clinicians by creating textual content, interpreting patient's speech into clinical concepts relevant to possible diagnoses. However, AI struggles with integrating factors like gender and race, leading to biases and data quality issues. The complexity of medical language also causes difficulties for AI. Clinical relevance engine can filter relevant patient information, aiding care quality and compliance. Natural language processing (NLP) can convert LLM generated texts into codes, reducing documentation burden, then is processed using an expert system for actionable, clinically relevant information.

Feb 13, 2024·Beckers Hospital Review

Health IT firms must satisfy new federal transparency norms starting Feb. 8, supplying health systems with AI. ONC's rule requires certified IT developers to offer clear info about decision-making algorithms; effecting 96% hospitals and 78% office-based doctors. Companies such as Epic, Amazon, and Google opposed, but rule also introduces enhanced interoperability standards, reporting metrics and information-blocking requirements.

Feb 13, 2024·Oodaloop

OpenAI's annual revenue surpassed $2bn due to ChatGPT success, making it one of the fastest-growing tech companies. Foresees doubling figure in 2025 as businesses adopt AI tools. Its ChatGPT and GPT-4 models used by 92% of Fortune 500 companies. Competitors like Google, Meta, and startups like Anthropic also commercializing AI products.

Feb 13, 2024·Medium

Spatial Computing/XR devices like Apple Vision Pro, Meta Quest 3, Magic Leap 2, Varjo XR-4, and Brilliant Labs Frame are defining 2024 as a significant year in this technology field, each reaching towards what could be the 'XR Infinity' design where a device's weight, field of view, resolution, AI capabilities etc. optimize user experience. XR Infinity systems are predicted to materialize from 2028 to 2035, marking the Apollo phase of Spatial Computing/XR. Current heavier devices improve VR display but may cause user fatigue, with an ideal device weighing 200-300g. True AR Spatial Computing, a device blending digital and physical world, is still pursued in devices like Magic Leap 2 and the super light Brilliant Labs Frame, which work towards the end goal of XR Infinity.

Feb 13, 2024·Android Authority

OpenAI developing new AI agents for complex tasks, one performing tasks like data transfer from documents to spreadsheets, expense report filling, another handling web-based tasks like creating itineraries, booking flights. Impact on jobs uncertain. Launch timeline unknown.

Feb 12, 2024·HealthLeadersMedia

Cedars-Sinai creates XAIA, an AI-enhanced VR app for mental health that interfaces with Apple Vision Pro headset. The app provides immersive therapy through a digital avatar, offering treatment and resources. AI avatar guides CBT treatments and should augment, not replace therapists. Developed by Cedars-Sinai's Spiegel and Liran, XAIA takes users into spatial environments for guided treatments. Initial evidence suggests VR and AI therapy presents potential for automated mental health support.

Feb 12, 2024·Hospital Management

AI data security company Tausight partners with CrowdStrike, improving healthcare cybersecurity. Collaboration provides real-time risk intelligence, controlling ePHI, integrating Tausight’s PHI Security Intelligence platform with CrowdStrike’s Falcon LogScale. Enhances visibility, defense for healthcare organizations, addressing HIPAA non-compliance risks. AI-driven Falcon XDR platform incorporates Tausight’s healthcare data insights, allowing risk assessment across environments. Centralizing, storing Tausight supply chain insights in Falcon LogScale enables monitoring of data movement internally and externally, mitigating ransomware, data extortion risks.

Feb 12, 2024·Foundry

2024 State of the CIO Study by Foundry highlights CIO role's evolution, with focus shifting towards strategic tasks, security management, IT operations improvement and business process redesign. Increasing collaboration with LOB on AI applications is observed. Anticipated tech budget growth is expected to shift ownership of out-of-IT budgets to IT. The increase in security threats redirects focus from innovative tasks, forcing tech budgets to rise. CIOs anticipate more involvement in AI due to automation and efficiency gains. The research provides industry, size, region-specific insights, based on responses from 875 IT heads and 251 LOB respondents globally.

Feb 12, 2024·MedTech

Immersive tech experts see potential in the Apple Vision Pro mixed-reality headset for use in healthcare, particularly in surgical training. Its eye-tracking and gesture-based controls show promise, with perceived limitations in operating suites possibly surmountable with modifications. The device could be useful in patient education, facilitating communication between healthcare providers and patients, and optimising hospital tasks. Furthermore, the ability of the Vision Pro to function without a connected computer could lower costs. However, its hefty price could discourage those already using cheaper VR headsets. The Vision Pro's rapid adoption will likely be in areas where imaging and haptics truly matter.

Feb 12, 2024·SC Magazine

Tax season sees rise in W-2 fraud scams, exploiting finance departments' heightened stress and with attacks increasing by over 130%. Scammers pose as executives, requesting W-2s from finance and HR departments using spoofed emails and social engineering. If successful, the hacker sells stolen W-2s or uses for identity theft. Spear-phishing, one form of these attacks, resulted in $2.7 billion losses last year. To protect against these attacks, organizations should refrain from publishing private info online, check for email spoofing, use alternative means to confirm requests' authenticity, adopt email authentication protocols, implement multi-factor authentication, and fortify email security with advanced tools like NLP.

Feb 10, 2024·Fortune

AI investment gives businesses unique value generation opportunities. Papa John's uses AI in fraud detection and delivery prediction; they're testing AI-enabled robotics and voice automation in customer service. Canva has integrated AI in creating text-to-image and image generating tools and perceives AI as a creative partner. Cushman & Wakefield employs AI in commercial real estate transactions and created an AI task force to ensure its responsible deployment. Morningstar uses AI to automate tasks and collect data; they launched an AI chatbot that summarizes investment insights. ServiceNow adopted an "AI-first" approach, deployed a dozen generative-AI use cases, and encourages AI investment. Snowflake is testing Document AI to help customers with their contracts, considering it a productivity tool. Businesses prioritize AI applications with clear value and defined ROI.

Feb 10, 2024·About Amazon

Amazon collaborates with U.S. AI Safety Institute, created by National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), to advance safe, secure AI. Amazon committed to develop and use AI systems responsibly, supports risk-based regulatory frameworks and guards against continued innovation. Amazon contributes $5 million to Institute for trustworthy AI development and responsible use methodologies, domain specific risk focused pre-deployment testing. Amazon seeks to improve generative AI safety, investing in future of responsible AI, and inform international standards.

Feb 10, 2024·Tom's Hardware

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions to GPU and AI fields. The high-demand Nvidia GPUs are essential for AI.

Feb 9, 2024·IDC

IDC predicts AI PC shipments to grow from 50 million units in 2024 to 167 million in 2027, making up nearly 60% of all PC shipments globally. Enhanced performance, lower costs, privacy and security drive interest in AI PCs. PC silicon vendors have introduced AI-specific silicon (NPUs) to run AI tasks efficiently. IDC identifies three NPU-enabled AI PCs; hardware-enabled AI PCs, next-generation AI PCs, and advanced AI PCs. IDC expects Next-generation AI PCs to dominate the market by 2027.

Feb 9, 2024·TechCrunch

Google retires Bard AI, rebrands as Gemini with new Gemini Ultra model. Ultra available through $20 Google One tier, includes 2TB storage, access in Google Workspace apps, replacement for Google Assistant. Gemini Advanced available in 150+ countries in English, Japanese and Korean next. Gemini Ultra 1.0 excels in text, image, audio, video benchmarks. Gemini Advanced, part of Google One AI Premium plan, offers more advanced Gemini model.