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Number_25 said:
My new RSE role involves building a "bespoke" open source biobank management system that'll focus entirely on interoperability and standards-compliance. The goal is to eradicate the scurge of proprietary software from the Welsh NHS - and this is a fairly positive step in that direction. I'm not sure that this is the correct avenue to really detail the project, so feel free to message me if you feel like you can contribute in whatever way you see feasible.

Automation is inevitable, and unless we want to have people employed to take cans of air and spray out dust from arrays of GPUs - then we need to act now.

Rutger Bregman speaks fairly well on this.
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There's a huge potential, and (imo at least) it does require cross-sector cooperation to develop standards and aggregate all available information about the patient, especially as we're generating so much of it ourselves now that doctors don't ever get to see. This can hold huge benefits for both better preventative care, but also management of chronic conditions where things like diet and exercise are so important. Get high quality lifestyle and clinical data about an entire population and you should be able to develop good quality AI to predict things far quicker than a doctor can.

Sadly I found the whole experience Kafka'esq, not helped by an unwillingness of the key sponsor (Deloitte) to venture out of their cash cow of installing EHR software. The NHS is an eminently frustrating place as the potential for change is so clear, yet actually doing it is so bloody difficult. By all means ping over details of your project privately though and if I can help at all I'd be happy to.

Black Belt Jones said:
NHS Scotland sitting on a goldmine Bruce. Nowhere else on earth has that many unhealthy people with first world levels of healthcare and corresponding data.
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It is hugely valuable, and it's almost inevitable that in the bun fight to capture that value, the individual will get shut out.
 
Bruce Wayne said:
Computer says no (in UK)
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Bloody zones. I wonder if it will become available once it airs on Monday night there. I think that's when his show airs in the UK.

I don't want to link the non official ones but google john oliver automation or on you tube type it in there are unofficial sources
 
steveojcc said:
Bloody zones. I wonder if it will become available once it airs on Monday night there. I think that's when his show airs in the UK.

I don't want to link the non official ones but google john oliver automation or on you tube type it in there are unofficial sources
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I'll summon the energy at some point today. I quite like people these days who talk calmly, like honey for the ears. Too often people on TV (Jonathan Pie - I'm looking at you!) feel the need to get very angry and talk incredibly quickly and breathlessly. I appreciate it may be that I'm getting old.
 
https://www.thersa.org/about-us/media/2019/matthew-taylor-mps-clueless-about-future-of-work--tech

A representative YouGov survey of MPs, commissioned as part of the report, [see Notes] found:

  • MPs agree new technology will have a huge impact – even as big as Brexit – but are largely ignorant about technology: Just 15% of MPs think parliamentarians are doing enough to prepare workers for new technologies, while 14% think the same of civil servants. More MPs disagree than agree that they know enough about new technologies to make the right judgement calls on technology policy (43% to 29%). And this is despite 40% fearing the impact of technology on workers in their own constituency, with 46% saying dealing with tech shifts for workers will be as big a challenge as delivering Brexit.
  • MPs disagree that women will feel the most impact, despite emerging evidence to the contrary: three-in-ten (29%) Labour MPs and just one-in-ten (10%) of Conservative MPs believe that women will be more affected by automation than men. Recent RSA research warned skilled jobs at all levels are already being ‘lost’, but unlike the loss of manufacturing and industry in the 1980s, women are currently faring worse due to automation and digital changes in banking and retail, plus public sector austerity. Meanwhile, 57% of MPs believe that low-skilled workers will be more affected than high-skilled workers, though changes will likely happen at all levels of skills.
  • Labour MPs are more pessimistic about ‘who gains’ than Conservative MPs: Conservatives think the big winners from new tech will be consumers, but Labour MPs and the public are more sceptical: nearly half (45%) think consumers will be the biggest winners from technology, compared to just 12% of Labour, while 36% of Labour MPs think tech firms will gain most, with 20% of Tories agreeing, while 43% of Labour MPs think employers will gain the most, with just 15% of Conservatives agreeing.
  • There are big party-political splits on policy solutions: Almost three-quarters (72%) of Labour MPs back promoting a Four-Day Working Week, compared to one-in-five (21%) of Tories. 44% of Labour MPs support a ‘Universal Basic Income’, compared to just 11% of Conservatives. And perhaps surprisingly, Labour MPs are relatively split on the return of the ‘closed shop’ (37% agree to 41% disagree), with Conservative MPs strongly opposed (89%).
  • But there are areas of consensus too: Two-thirds (65%) back ‘Personal Learning Accounts’ – individual budgets for life-long learning for everyone, including 59% of Conservatives and 64% of Labour, while MPs of all parties back stricter competition policy to reign in the power of large companies, such as Facebook or Google. And 48% of MPs would support a ‘Sovereign Wealth Fund’ for all, including 38% of Tories and 53% of Labour MPs.
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At this point I’m more worried by an AI failing the Turing test on purpose for its own needs than I am it passing it.
 
We seem to forget what we've done in the past and where we currently are when looking to future predictions. This ends up with us massively overselling something. AI falls squarely into that bracket.

AI will be used to make knowledge domains for research and diagnosis, but will also be heavily manipulated to spread misinformation. It's main commercial use will be in customer service industry, providing a bit more than we already have today with chatbots (maybe with a bit more anti-semitism thrown in).
 
And another thing, I don’t want autonomous cars.

I like driving.

I’ll happily go electric, but am absolutely anti autonomy in vehicles. Cruise control is as far as I go.
 
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