“Med Too Soon” a medication dispensing alert, is both terrible and indispensable

Our EMO (electronic medication optimization) committee is dedicated to eliminating alerts that have high "override" rates. Any alert with an override rate more than 90% means that most clinicians seeing the alert ignore the warning. Why, then, when we removed "Med Too Soon" overridden 95% of the time, did some nurses complain?

AI transparency by using Nutrition Facts as an example

We are all struggling with information transparency as we build and deploy AI models in healthcare. How did you build that? How can I trust it? Why should I trust you? Maybe the FDA nutrition label can teach us something.

“ChatGPT” ukulele parody song @InterSystems Global Summit

ChatGPT sung to Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline". What's not to like?

Clinical Uses of AI at University of Colorado – CU Anschutz Medical Campus (news)

Transforming Healthcare is a seminar series hosted by CU Anschutz to highlight the work being done at our campus on transformative technologies; our seminar this past week was on AI.

Harvard Business School news: How to make AI forget the data it should not have

There is a growing requirement for AI models to forget data. Either it was proprietary or private and should not have been used to train the AI, or individual persons want to "opt-out" their data, or the data may be explicitly wrong or biased. These Large Language Models are ... LARGE and require huge effort and millions of dollars to build. How can such "forgetting" work, without retraining the model from scratch with each forgetting request?

Predictive and Generative AI: Lessons from a talk I’ll be giving…CT Lin

Ever wanted to deconstruct what CT is thinking? Here’s your chance. CT’s anxieties and lessons about predictive AI and generative AI, the last slide of one of his current talks, up to date as of 5/23/2024. Out of date tomorrow. And some books he read to Steal Like an Artist.

The Dark Side of Competition in AI (TED)

This is terrifying. And also hopeful, that someone has named my unnamed fear in the AI acceleration we are living through. This is an important lesson. Spend 12 minutes and watch please. And then figure out how to help. We are all depending on you.

Keynote: Unpacking the Practical Impacts of Generative AI, with CT Lin (interview: This Week Health)

My latest podcast Keynote interview with This Week Health, with Bill Russell. We cover Generative AI and host of other surprising success factors.

If it wasn’t created by a human, is it still art? (Harvard news)

Another news article about the reaction of artists, techologists to the rise of AI in art. While we ought to be cautious, we should also be at the table when such discussions occurr. AI and creativity and what it is good for and not good for; this is our next frontier.

Blank Space – AI (apologies to Taylor Swift) EHR ukulele parody – CT Lin

A new EHR parody song! This time, come see how the sausage is made and how much was written by GPT and how much by the human collaborators.