Machine Learning for MDs Weekly Digest

What’s New in ML for MDs

Welcome to the ML for MDs Newsletter. The mission of ML for MDs is to connect physicians interested in machine learning. This newsletter provides the most relevant news, journal articles, and jobs at the intersection of medicine and machine learning. 

Weekly watching

Medical AI for Busy Doctors: Crucial Concepts in less than 10 minutes

I’ve started a series of videos for physicians that explains crucial concepts in AI/ML. I feel strongly that we need more physicians to understand how this technology works, or our field risks being moved to the sidelines of innovation and care. Physicians often feel too busy or that the information is too complicated, and this video series is a first step in giving them the understanding they need to impact the future of medicine.

Let me know what you think, and what concepts you’d like to see covered in the future.

Fun Fact

AI is expected to contribute to 26% of China’s GDP and 14% of North America’s by by 2030

This Week’s Top Stories

• Chat GPT can be a pretty good personal language tutor. Type in “Act as a Spanish tutor” for example, and you can converse in your chosen language. Though with Microsoft’s proposed VALL-E X, we all might be able to speak a different language with our own voices
• Microsoft announced an ambient Dragon system based on its acquisition of Nuance in 2022, with others competing in the space (Nabla etc). Goal is to decrease physician charting time. It claims a 70% decrease in physician burnout and fatigue which sounds perhaps unrealistically high for charting software.
• Almost half of health systems are using AI for workforce issues. 
• France is planning to use AI surveillance for the next Olympics
• The Cleveland Clinic and IBM installed the first quantum computer at a healthcare center