Deep Medicine: How AI Can Make Healthcare Human Again
Eric Topol
Summary
A fascinating account of how AI is going to shape the future of healthcare. Also does a great job of explaining how AI really works
Rating: 4/5
Notes
Deep learning will involve pattern recognition and machine learning for diagnosis but also other applications like at home monitoring
Deep empathy and connection b/w patients and clinicians
Superficial contact w/ doctors and patients promotes incorrect diagnosis and the need for unnecessary tests/treatments
Screening programs over diagnose breast, prostate and thyroid cancer with increased incidence but no change in mortality
Physicians don’t know who will respond to treatment
System 1 thinking is automatic, intuitive, effortless. System 2 is slow, reflective, analytical
Don’t filter the data too early
Developing AI is all about inputs and outputs
New Apple watch 4 is not what it seems to be for ECGs
Computers today can perform specific tasks very well, but when it comes to general tasks, AI can’t compete with a human child
Machines lack of understanding cannot be emphasized enough
AI papers on medicine haven’t been published in top peer reviewed scientific journals and still need to undergo the expert review process (no prospective analysis as well, all retrospective)
Any mismatch in AI, medicine can lead to hundreds of people dying
Blackbox AI is still yet to be understood
Bias is built into every AI algorithm
21st century medicine is increasingly aiming to to upgrade the healthy rather than help the poor
No tech company is tracking its own adherence to ethical guidelines
AI can now predict the timing of a patient’s death with pretty good accuracy
An algorithm could better map more genes related to autism
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Make Something Wonderful
Steve Jobs
Summary
The life of Steve Jobs in his own words
Rating: 5/5
Notes
Make something wonderful and put it out there
‘You appear, have a chance to blaze in the sky, then you disappear’
When you’re a stranger in a place, you notice thing you don’t otherwise (Jobs after India trip)
Whenever you start with nothing, always shoot for the moon. You have nothing to lose.
You never achieve what you want without falling on your face a few times
Never be afraid to fail. You never achieve what you want without falling flat on your face a few times
We are never taught to listen to our intuitions, to develop and nurture them. But if you do pay attention to these subtle insights, you can make them come true
Creativity equals connecting previously unrelated experiences and insights others don’t see
Believe that some of what you follow with your heart will come back and make your life richer. And it will. And you will gain even firmer trust on your instincts and intuitions
Make your avocation your vocation. Make what you love your work.
The journey is the reward. The reward isn’t in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, it’s in crossing the rainbow
To find A+ talent, if experienced, look at their track record and results
The world we know is a human creation and we can push it forward
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do (read whole ad ‘here’s to the crazy ones)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit - Aristotle
Hire people better than you are
You can’t plan to meet the people who will change your life
It’s impossible to connect the dots looking forward, but they make sense looking backwards so you have to trust the dots will somehow connect in your future
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you
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