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The Top 10 mistakes healthcare executives make with AI

“Some executives think that artificial intelligence is a sentient being, but it is simply a better way to turn data into actionable insights.“ Ryan Detert, CEO Influential Artificial intelligence (AI), with its machine and deep learning, natural language processing, and robotic process automation to

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The role of Bayes theorem in testing for COVID-19 (Part 2)

“Humans, it turns out, are not very good at Bayesian inference, at least when verbal reasoning is involved. The problem is that we tend to neglect the cause’s prior probability. ” Pedro Domingos, in The Master Algorithm We remain in the most challenging global health crisis of our generation, with t

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The role of Bayes theorem in testing for COVID-19 (Part 1)

“Math is the logic of certainty, and statistics is the logic of uncertainty.” Joseph Blitzstein, Harvard statistician It is supremely frustrating for scientists who work with a few of the world leaders who have extreme form of confirmation bias and refuse to update their beliefs based on new observa

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Systemic racism in healthcare: How AI can safeguard equity

“If we are not careful, AI will perpetuate the bias in this world. Computers learn how to be racist, sexist, and prejudiced in a similar way that a child does. The computers learn from their creator-us.” Aylin Caliskan, computer scientist The COVID-19 pandemic and the protests for racial equality ra

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Equality and racism: The fight continues

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King, Jr. in a letter from a Birmingham jail, April, 1963 This is one of the most tumultuous times in our lives. The COVID-19 pandemic, as appalling as it has been, has brought forth a few dividends: time with family, time for int

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SpaceX launch and the COVID-19 pandemic: What have we learnt?

“Simple and complicated contexts assume an ordered universe, where cause-and-effect relationships are perceptible, and right answers can be determined based on the facts. Complex and chaotic contexts are unordered, and there is no immediately apparent relationship between cause and effect, and the w

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Intelligence and COVID-19: How to make great decisions

“The only thing you can do that will change your future life are the decisions that you make. Otherwise you are not the wind, but the leaf in the wind.” Ronald Howard, retired Stanford professor of Electrical Engineering There is a supreme imbroglio now with the COVID-19 pandemic as it runs its apoc

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