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  • I was at my parent’s house, trying to add some items to the smart TV. They started listening to these awful AI interpersonal dramas read by AI, on YouTube.

    My thought was to add some podcasts and their Audible account, for more selections. Maybe they’ll still only listen to that, even so. You can’t add much to a smart tv. No podcasts. No podcast app. A pretty spartan selection of apps. Even something as large and mainstream as Audible. No go. Libby? Yeah, right.

    I don’t get it. What’s the point? Just buy a monitor, jack it into a PC for media, and have everything you want minus this telemetry.









  • They are testing quite a few things atm. Radiology image recognition is definitely there. But is this what the phone wavers are accessing? No. The Google search bot and the bots being tested are two different things.

    I wouldn’t get too excited about the future of AI in medicine, not given the level of venture capital and such in medicine already.

    LLMs are programs that can be tuned by people who have not sworn an oath or spent 12 dedicated years and $250k debt to pursue medicine. What will motivate how these bots are tuned? Publicity and PR can create excitement, but what have the last 30years of medicine taught us? Even the radiology bot can be “turned down” in ways a human rarely would allow.

    Profit speaks. Profit drives. Profit decides patient care levels and outcomes. What keeps it afloat are the people clawing back at administrators. Don’t underestimate the power of angry nurses or pushy physicians in just how much they’ve kept healthcare afloat. For you. While admin battles them from the shadows in the name of profit.

    What they don’t mention among the many bots being tested is the EOLI, or, End Of Life Index. The most used electronic medical record had a bot introduced this year, unannounced, that is a probability predictor of a patient dying in the next 6 month. The mouse over admonishes caregivers not to discuss this with patients or families as it may upset them. Does/will the EOLI factor into insurance decision making?