🤖 AI Just Outdiagnosed ER Doctors — And That's Only the Start of Today's News

About this episode

The episode discusses a Harvard study revealing AI's superior diagnostic accuracy over ER doctors and explores various implications of AI in healthcare and other sectors.

A Harvard study has dropped a bombshell: at least one large language model is outperforming human emergency room doctors in diagnostic accuracy — and the implications for healthcare are massive. But AI's medical story has a darker side too, as an investigation out of Kenya exposes an algorithmic healthcare system that's been systematically overcharging the country's poorest citizens. Facial recognition is expanding at a pace that's alarming regulators on both sides of the Atlantic, with London's Met Police nearly doubling the number of faces scanned in just one year, 40 new surveillance vans being rolled out across England and Wales, and whistleblower allegations of misuse already emerging. Meanwhile, Disneyland has quietly started scanning visitor faces — and oversight is nowhere in sight. The music and film industries are both drawing hard lines against AI, with the Oscars officially ruling out AI-generated content from eligibility, while the creator of a beloved internet classic is calling out an AI startup for stealing his work. Mistral AI made a major technical leap with their new 128-billion parameter model, and Sakana AI unveiled a clever new system that could make AI…

Topics covered

• AI in healthcare
• diagnostic accuracy
• algorithmic healthcare
• facial recognition
• AI in entertainment
• Mistral AI advancements
• technology regulation

Keywords

• AI
• healthcare
• diagnostics
• facial recognition
• Mistral AI
• Sakana AI
• Oscars
• algorithmic bias
• surveillance
• technology regulation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Harvard, Kenya, London's Met Police, Disneyland, Oscars, Mistral AI, Sakana AI

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