Axios: AI’s reputation fix


 
1 big thing: AI’s reputation fix
 
Illustration of a small painter painting a red cross on a computer screen with binary code
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AI has an image problem — and one way to fix it is for top companies to dive headlong into health care, Axios’ Adriel Bettelheim writes in Axios Future of Health Care.

Why it matters: Saving the world with AI-designed cures is better than being blamed for ruining the environment or driving up Americans’ utility bills.

🩺 The Wall Street Journal reported this month that Anthropic is trying to shore up investor confidence ahead of its massive initial public offering with talk of pushing harder into health care and biotech.

Anthropic isn’t alone: Nvidia and Eli Lilly are building a $1 billion drug-discovery lab in San Francisco that will team life-sciences researchers with AI model builders and engineers.

Isomorphic Labs, the AI drug-discovery spinoff from Google, recently raised $2.1 billion to hire more AI and clinical talent and has ongoing research collaborations with Novartis, Lilly and Johnson & Johnson.

💡 Reality check: AI is dramatically speeding up drug development and helping clinicians analyze medical scans and diagnose conditions. But there are concerns that AI-enabled research tools could be used for nefarious purposes, including making a biological weapon.

And breakthroughs may still be years away.Read on … 

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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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