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AI Science and Medicine News: Week Ending 02/02/2024

February 7, 2024

Science and Medicine

The first human received an implant from Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well. Initial results show promising neuron spike detection.

The first human received an implant from @Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well.

Initial results show promising neuron spike detection.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 29, 2024

A video showing what Neurolink plans to do

Here's what the Neuralink implant is designed to enable: pic.twitter.com/ImrSkxT0h7
— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) January 29, 2024

We invite you to participate in the PRIME Study – a groundbreaking investigational medical device clinical trial for our first brain-computer interface.

Click to access PRIME-Study-Brochure.pdf

Elon Musk’s Neuralink implants brain tech in human patient for the first time

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/29/elon-musks-neuralink-implants-brain-tech-in-human-patient-for-the-first-time.html

Boston Children’s Hospital pioneers VirtualHip, a fully automated AI tool creating 3D models from routine medical images, offering diagnostic insights and treatment guidance.

Boston Children’s Hospital pioneers VirtualHip, a fully automated #AI tool creating 3D models from routine #medicalimages, offering diagnostic insights and treatment guidance. https://t.co/Qk4AdLPvbE
— NVIDIA Healthcare (@NVIDIAHealth) February 2, 2024

Researchers at Georgia Tech developed a new blood test for ovarian cancer using AI and metabolic data.

The test achieved a remarkable 93% accuracy in detecting the disease!

AI is already enabling quicker progress in the healthcare world. This will 100x soon.

Researchers at Georgia Tech developed a new blood test for ovarian cancer using AI and metabolic data.

The test achieved a remarkable 93% accuracy in detecting the disease!

AI is already enabling quicker progress in the healthcare world. This will 100x soon. pic.twitter.com/Q7wdgDll2D
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) February 2, 2024

https://www.gynecologiconcology-online.net/article/S0090-8258(23)01636-0/fulltext

Data from 100 patients with strokes was given to GPT-4 & an experts:

1) GPT-4s treatment suggestion agreed with the expert in 80 cases, in 5 it was right & expert wrong, in 5 expert was right & AI wrong, 10 were judgement.

2) GPT-4 predicted mortality better than specialist AIs

Data from 100 patients with strokes was given to GPT-4 & an experts:
1) GPT-4s treatment suggestion agreed with the expert in 80 cases, in 5 it was right & expert wrong, in 5 expert was right & AI wrong, 10 were judgement.
2) GPT-4 predicted mortality better than specialist AIs https://t.co/dBnumG2YUQ
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) January 29, 2024

But what was really astonishing was that we also asked GPT-4 to estimate 90-day mortality and compared it with two recent traditional ML prediction models for this task. GPT-4 was significantly better (AUC=0.89 compared to 0.77 and 0.7). pic.twitter.com/FFhDQSmQc5
— Dvir Aran (@dvir_a) January 27, 2024

This is not just for fun, identifying patients at high risk of mortality is an important factor in treatment decisions. GPT-4 mortality predictions separated patients for mortality a year forward. Of 25 with highest risk, there were 13 deaths, compared to 6/75 in the rest. pic.twitter.com/vdJyOvfdEH
— Dvir Aran (@dvir_a) January 27, 2024

Google’s New AI Is Learning to Diagnose Patients The DeepMind and Google Research teams turn to medicine with AMIE

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-doctor

Robot trained to read braille at twice the speed of humans

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/robot-trained-to-read-braille-at-twice-the-speed-of-humans

Mental Health Therapy as an LLM State Machine

https://blog.langchain.dev/mental-health-therapy-as-an-llm-state-machine

A new AI model called Morpheus-1 claims to induce lucid dreaming

https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/would-you-let-ai-into-your-mind-a-new-model-called-morpheus-1-claims-to-induce-lucid-dreaming

Scientists Think They’re on The Verge of Breaching The Blood-Brain Barrier

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-think-theyre-on-the-verge-of-breaching-the-blood-brain-barrier

Researchers Approach New Speed Limit for Seminal Problem

Integer linear programming can help find the answer to a variety of real-world problems. Now researchers have found a much faster way to do it.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/researchers-approach-new-speed-limit-for-seminal-problem-20240129

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