Bridging the implementation gap

Five years ago, one of the godfathers of artificial intelligence, Geoffrey Hinton said: “We should stop training radiologists now. It’s just completely obvious that within five years, deep learning is going to do better than radiologists.” Today, as medical AI start-ups are rapidly dying off, it has been suggested that we are approaching yet another …

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How AI is transforming healthcare

“The robot doctor will see you now” is just one of the hyperbolic headlines published about medical artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years. As exciting (or terrifying) as that sounds, we’re still light years away from this scenario. Although we might not see AI replacing doctors any time soon, it is beginning to reach the …

Hi, I’m Alix

I’ve heard that starting a PhD can be bewildering. Mine began shortly after I fell 5 metres while rock climbing in Tasmania, obliterating my radius and ulna and dislocating my patella resulting in a couple of torn ligaments. I had to be winched off a sea cliff by a helicopter. I was off to a …