Morning Headlines 1/15/24
Towards Conversational Diagnostic AI
A Google-created AI system called AMIE that was optimized for diagnostic dialog outperforms primary care doctors in synchronous text chat with patient actors.
Broadwest’s luxury hotel to host Oracle’s larger-than-anticipated health care summit
Oracle pushes its Health Summit back from February to April and moves it to Nashville, where it will also build a new campus using $175 million in economic incentives.
Law firm that handles data breaches was hit by data breach
A law firm that specializes in business security incidents is itself hit by hackers, exposing the identity, medical, and insurance information of 637,000 people that it had collected from its security incident clients.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.