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Pulse Check: Sep 9, 2023

Pulse Check: Sep 9, 2023

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September 09, 2023

🩺 News pulse check:

One day, we could harness AI to help diagnose autism.
Hospitals could use AI to find patients who might need more help than just medical attention.
Researchers are using AI to build a knowledge base that could help us develop the vaccines we’ll need in the future.
AI could make getting an endometriosis diagnosis a lot faster.
Machine learning could help match kidney donors and recipients.

🤖 Job board

Healthcare IT Leaders is hiring an AI project manager.
Evolent Health is hiring a data scientist NLP.
Elevance Health is hiring an associate AI machine learning scientist.
Oscar Health Insurance is hiring a machine learning data scientist (remote).
Walgreens is hiring a senior algorithms and machine learning scientist.
Amazon is hiring a research scientist for AWS Health AI.
Mayo Clinic is looking for a research fellow in artificial intelligence.
Stanford Health is hiring a MLOps engineer.

🔗 Recommended reading

How We Used Machine Learning to Investigate Where Ebola May Strike

ProPublica spent months teaching a computer to analyze past Ebola outbreaks linked to deforestation. What we found reveals a weakness in the way that governments and public health experts are preparing for future pandemics.

www.propublica.org/article/how-propublica-used-machine-learning-investigate-where-ebola

✨ Something to play with: An AI tool you can use: Safe Waters is a weather app but for shark attack.

✅ Seen and heard:

One of the best ways to reduce hallucinations with LLMs is by retrieving useful, factual information and injecting it into the LLM’s prompt as added context. Although this might sound complicated, it’s actually quite easy to implement with standard vector search functionality…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Cameron R. Wolfe, Ph.D. (@cwolferesearch)
7:45 PM • Aug 25, 2023

💡 TIL: How a ‘90s TLC show birthed reality television.

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