by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy
Can computers think? When I approach a question like this, I start by stating my own guess. (Since my guess usually isn’t yet well informed, it may be better called a bias). In this case, the answer is yes. I then look for two basic books with seemingly opposing...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy
At 6 a.m. Seattle time, with a french-pressed coffee in hand, I recently took a taster lecture from London’s New College of the Humanities via Zoom. The whole experience lasted less than an hour, and involved the following: An introduction to the graduate...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, EHR
I just ran across a nice Microsoft podcast, The New Surface Podcast Series!, by Alfred Ojukwu (@alojukwu). It reminded me of an idea I presented to some Microsoft folks years ago: What if, by using the Microsoft Surface Hub, we made the exam room the EHR? This...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Deontology, Healthcare Ethics
BigHealth IT’s Christmas in the UK has been delayed for a few months, as the July 1st date for releasing every GP patient’s records to third parties has been delayed. Don’t worry though, it will still be an early Christmas: September 1st. Here’s the key quote...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Fitbit, Google, Wearables
“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.”― Henry David Thoreau, Walden My old watch is a beat-up Rolex, but,...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | AI Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data
Several years ago I was able to use IBM’s Watson Personality Insights to analyze my personality based on how I use Twitter (see IBM’s Watson Artificial Intelligence Analysis of My Personality). It contained both positives (You are philosophical: you are open to and...
