Tag Archives: Health

Hospitals adopt error-prone AI transcription tools despite warnings

In one case from the study cited by AP, when a speaker described “two other girls and one lady,” Whisper added fictional text specifying that they “were Black.” In another, the audio said, “He, the boy, was going to, I’m not sure exactly, take the umbrella.” Whisper transcribed it to, “He took a big piece… Read More »

Venus Williams Health Update: What Autoimmune Disease Does She Have?

The latest Venus Williams health update is good news when it comes to her dealing with a severe autoimmune disease. While the multiple Grand Slam winner was diagnosed with the illness in 2011, it’s rare enough that most don’t know what it is without some research. Here’s everything we know about what disease Venus Williams… Read More »

Our health care system may soon receive a much-needed cybersecurity boost

reader comments 19 with The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (Arpa-H), a research support agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services, said today that it is launching an initiative to find and help fund the development of cybersecurity technologies that can specifically improve defenses for digital infrastructure in US health… Read More »

Using AI to find antibodies is fast and produces unimagined molecules

Enlarge / Researchers use CyBio FeliX workstations to extract and purify DNA samples for testing reader comments 45 with At an old biscuit factory in South London, giant mixers and industrial ovens have been replaced by robotic arms, incubators, and DNA sequencing machines. James Field and his company LabGenius aren’t making sweet treats; they’re cooking… Read More »

Health sites let ads track visitors without telling them

reader comments 33 with 26 posters participating Share this story All too often, digital ads wind up improperly targeting the most vulnerable people online, including abuse victims and kids. Add to that list the customers of several digital-medicine and genetic-testing companies, whose sites used ad-tracking tools that could have exposed information about people’s health status.… Read More »