Impact of AI

his quality improvement study of 263 physicians and advance practice practitioners across 6 health care systems found that after 30 days with an ambient AI scribe, burnout among those working in ambulatory clinics decreased significantly from 51.9% to 38.8%. There were also significant improvements in the cognitive task load, time spent documenting... See more

A 2017 McKinsey Global Institute report said 75 million to 375 million workers may need to switch their occupations by 2030 as “digitization, automation and artificial intelligence” disrupt the way we work. In the same report, 62% of executives said they believe they will need to retrain or replace more than a quarter of their workforce by 2023.

We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it. We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents “join the workforce” and materially change the output of companies. We continue to believe that iteratively putting great tools in the hands of people leads to great, broadly-distributed outcomes.

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Many of the jobs we do today would have looked like trifling wastes of time to people a few hundred years ago, but nobody is looking back at the past, wishing they were a lamplighter. If a lamplighter could see the world today, he would think the prosperity all around him was unimaginable. And if we could fast-forward a hundred years from today,... See more

This is how the singularity goes: wonders become routine, and then table stakes.

There is a lot of talk that AI is going to be able to do everything that humans can, better, and soon. That there will be nothing left for us to do. That is not how this works. This is a strategy memo for humans. https://t.co/kJXhfd9hbE

TUESDAY, Oct. 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Artificial intelligence can accurately detect heart murmurs in dogs, a new study finds.

The AI program detects heart murmurs in canines with 90% accuracy, similar to the accuracy of expert cardiologists, researchers report.