AI will transform healthcare

AI translation tools are one of the most amazing things humanity has achieved.

You can translate between pretty much any widely used language in the world. Future AI translation apps will learn about you, the language you use and the way you communicate. You will be able to have simultaneous spoken-word translations.

4 Don’t trust ChatGPT with your credit card

One of the fundamental problems with large language model (LLM) technology is that it doesn’t tell you the truth. You ask it a question; it gives you the most plausible answer. It has

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Doctors will use AI as a diagnostic tool in the same way that using an X-ray machine is a tool. But I would caution against becoming completely reliant on an AI diagnosis. My big concern is that when a machine tells you something that disagrees with your own personal perceptions, you have to invest some energy to figure out why the machine might be wrong. And often people can’t be bothered to do that if they’re tired. I would rather have a human being than AI. Some people won’t have that luxury – it will be

AI or nothing. On the plus side, AI tools will make very expensive healthcare, only accessible to a tiny fragment of the world’s population, accessible to a huge number of people. For example, AI technology will be able to analyse scans from the other side of the world. That will be transformative.

7 It’s biased towards certain sectors of society

AI is dominated by North American, white, college-educated men. That is a widely acknowledged problem: LLMs communicate using North American (rather than British) English. This matters. A recent data set widely employed for voicerecognition technology used recordings