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Developing AI business Signal 1d ago

Silicon valley promises ai will cure disease drugmaker ceos arent buying it 5218511c

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Alondra Nelson evacide Stefanie Hane Michiel Bontenbal

“"Executives leading the companies that discover new drugs say AI isn’t going to cure cancer anytime soon. They are dimming the hype around the technology’s use in drug research, saying human biology is too complicated even for superintelligence." www.wsj.co…”

“This article is considerably more nuanced than the headline would suggest, but "We need AI because it will cure cancer" is a Silicon Valley talking point that has made me howl with rage for some time. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...”

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Alondra Nelson: "Executives leading the companies that discover new drugs say AI isn’t going to cure cancer anytime soon. They are dimming the hype around the technology’s use in drug research, saying human biolog…
Michiel Bontenbal: "Executives leading the companies that discover new drugs say AI isn’t going to cure cancer anytime soon. They are dimming the hype around the technology’s use in drug research, saying human biolog…
Thomas Dietterich: Yes, this is why I'm impressed with what Daphne Koller at her company Insitro is trying to do: Develop narrow, precise outcome proxies based on physiology
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Prisons Using AI to Predict When Incarcerated People Will Commit Future Crimes

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““Recidiviz began as a data organization project at Google, meant to ‘uncover how technology could standardize criminal justice data and improve the system nationwide.’””

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Hypervisible : “Recidiviz began as a data organization project at Google, meant to ‘uncover how technology could standardize criminal justice data and improve the system nationwide.’”
Alondra Nelson: “Recidiviz began as a data organization project at Google, meant to ‘uncover how technology could standardize criminal justice data and improve the system nationwide.’”
Jed Brown: Recidiviz is deployed in many states despite a dearth of independent audits. Audits of similar systems like COMPAS and this one in Ontario (used for exactly the purpose Michigan is deploying Recidi…
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