Bill Gates Talked With Google Employees About Using AI To Analyze Ultrasound Images of Unborn Children (cnbc.com) 52
Bill Gates said he talked to Google researchers about the application of artificial-intelligence technology in healthcare. "While Microsoft and Google are arch-competitors in many areas, including cloud computing and artificial intelligence research, the visit is an example of how Gates' broad interest in technology trumps Microsoft's historical rivalries with other tech companies," reports CNBC. From the report: Gates talked about the use of AI in weapons systems and autonomous vehicles before arriving at the subject of health care. "In the medical field, you know, we just don't have doctors. Most people are born and die in Africa without coming near to a doctor," said Gates, who is co-chair of the nonprofit Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which concerns itself with improving global health among other things. "We're doing a lot of work with analyzing ultrasound, and we can do things like sex-blind the output, because we're not having anybody actually see the image. We can tell you what's going on without revealing the gender, which is, of course -- when you do that, it drives gendercide. And yet, we're doing the analysis, the medical understanding, in a much deeper way, and that's an example where it's all done with a lot of machine learning."
"I was meeting with the guys at Google who are helping us with this this morning, and there's some incredible promise in that field, where, in the primary health-care system, the amount of sophistication to do diagnosis and understand, for example, "Is this a high-risk pregnancy?' 'Yes.' 'Let's escalate that person to go to the hospital level,' even though you couldn't afford to do that on a widespread basis. So this stuff is going to be very domain-specific."
"I was meeting with the guys at Google who are helping us with this this morning, and there's some incredible promise in that field, where, in the primary health-care system, the amount of sophistication to do diagnosis and understand, for example, "Is this a high-risk pregnancy?' 'Yes.' 'Let's escalate that person to go to the hospital level,' even though you couldn't afford to do that on a widespread basis. So this stuff is going to be very domain-specific."
anything to "help" radiologists (Score:1)
out of their profession
http://skepticalscalpel.blogsp... [blogspot.com]
if people knew how insensitive imaging technologies are and how it's mostly just an opinion of an interpretation of noise on a screen they would be terrified of doctors
they can't even get their shit together with the appendix
so hell yeah automate these fuckers into the 21st century and put healthcare into the hands of the patient not the quacks behind the curtain
Deep Dreaming Ultrasound Images of Your Fetus (Score:2)
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Your mom drank, it's why you can't learn apostrophes.
apostrophe's.
Just like how he helped Go Inc with pen computers (Score:2)
You know he was just trying to help people get on the Internet when he started paying people to use Microsoft Internet Explorer instead of Netscape Navigator.
And he hired the top software architects away from Borland to create Microsoft
LoB
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I would have just gone with, 'FUCK M$ invading your privacy before you are even fucking born', let me guess what next, an RFID chip inserted at birth, fixed to your skull near your auditory canal, using bio electrical currents for energy listening in and some chirpy fuckwit paper clip 'Telling' you want to do, wired into Windows anal probe 10 at birth.
Sorry M$, you have out and out proven, you are part of the POS greed obsessed problem and most definitely not part of the solution for anything, just a scum
***UNBORN CHILDREN*** ??? (Score:2, Informative)
How dare you describe those blobs of parasitic meats as ***UNBORN CHILDREN*** !!!
We females have the right to our own body, ***AND WE DO NOT WANT THOSE PARASITES INSIDE OURBODY*** !!!
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You're probably right. However, you should recognize you, yourself, have been pwned by memes, such as the "Have sex!" variant designed to dissuade political participation, and could yourself be a paid astroturfing shitstirrer.
Nobody knows. Which is the problem.
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Abortion should be legal up to 18 years after birth. That would show those parasites who's queen!
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You beat me to it. Funny how the pro-choice companies will switch language and recognize a life when it suites them.
https://californiafamily.org/2... [californiafamily.org]
https://www.christianpost.com/... [christianpost.com]
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"Have you noticed that most of the women who are against abortion are women you wouldn' t want to fuck in the first place"
Man..I miss George Carlin...we need him around more than ever today.
That's going to make things worse (Score:1, Flamebait)
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My great grandma had 15 siblings but only one of them survived. With that kind of survival rate, it's only natural too have extra just in case.
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And your great grandma had limited options of contraception. ...
My GF is Thai, she gets 50 in a few weeks. She had 11 siblings. 4 died in childhood, and 3 during adulthood. When she was 12: her mother explained to her about contraception and that condoms where not available when she (the mother) was younger.
She and her 4 surviving sisters, all only have one child. If they have had less kids, they would be rich now, because due to inheritance, their land got split up on 8 siblings
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Nobody is arguing it's not natural, just that it's not wise anymore.
And, ironically, it is wise in developed, free nations because that increases the rate of technological advancement and resource issues are solved faster than they become problems.
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The global birth rate has been falling for decades, mostly due to education and empowerment of women. For example, Bangladesh went from an average of over 8 (!) children per woman to around 2.4 now. Globally the rate has gone from around 5.5 to under 2.5 today.
https://www.google.com/publicd... [google.com]
The population of the world continues to rise more quickly than this data might suggest because people are also living longer, so there are more generations alive at the same time.
Better healthcare tends to reduce the
Like Kill mosquitoes? (Score:1)
If you remember the mosquito laser zapper, that never was finished, Gate's history of delivering on these subjects leaves a lot to be desired.
Google are trying to kill *ALL* mosquitoes using genetics, which will never be rolled out as too risky and vast overkill.
Gates hired someone to do the laser zapping thing for the PR result, and never followed through with a safer smaller project after the PR release.
So the combination of Google and Gates will be unlikely to deliver any solution that's moderate or prac
Watch your language, MSNBC. (Score:3)
Use terms like 'unborn children' and people will accuse you of trying to subtly push a side in the abortion debate.
The same thing will happen if you use 'fetus' instead though. I can't think of any term that wouldn't potentially lead to that outcome.
Re: Watch your language, MSNBC. (Score:1)
Guarantee you they wonâ(TM)t be calling any aborted white babies unborn children. Those are just pieces parts to be sold off to makeup companies and medical schools.
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Facial recognition early and often! (Score:2)
Sure. If we can get those babies in Federal databases before they're even born, so much the better. Homeland Security is totally on board.