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Doctors develop AI stethoscope that can detect major heart conditions in 15 seconds (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 16 points 1 year ago

Generative ai sucks ass and I personally hate it, but could we not kneejerk downvote legitimate and incredibly impactful medical technology just because "AI" is used in the headline?

It's not even genetative ai. This kind of tech probably better labeled machine learning to convey its technological distinction from gen ai.

This is a good thing. It's a good thing that will help people. The word "AI" doesn't change the fact that it's a good thing that will help people 😅

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The new stethoscope developed by researchers at Imperial College London and Imperial College healthcare NHS trust can analyse tiny differences in heartbeat and blood flow undetectable to the human ear, and take a rapid ECG at the same time.

    Okay, if you're taking an ECG at the same time that's not just an AI stethoscope, it's a hybrid stethoscope-ECG. Taking an ECG without leads (going based off the lead image) is interesting

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    [–] 25 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    This information is sent to the cloud – a secure online data storage area – to be analysed by AI algorithms that can detect subtle heart problems a human would miss.

    Also its probably not even "AI" and just an algorithm.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Yeah, it's not even a "stethoscope"....

    The device, manufactured by California company Eko Health, is about the size of a playing card. It is placed on a patient’s chest to take an ECG recording of the electrical signals from their heart, while its microphone records the sound of blood flowing through the heart.

    The people selling it know hospitals want "ai" so they don't have to pay doctors.

    So slap "ai" on it, pretend it's a new version of old tech, and then journalists write shit headlines and people post it when they'd never talk about a legit medical breakthrough.

    This is boring, but actually pretty useful. That's just not how you sell products in a capitalist dystopia...

    So we kind of come full circle. Hell, just the fact that we have to advertise medical advancements is pretty cyberpunk if you think about it. We're just used to it, which is why our dystopia is boring

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    AI is such an annoying buzzword now. Pictures aren't photoshopped, doctored with, manipulated or even created anymore. It's just AI now. I used AI to... Is usually an algorithm or used a computer to...

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    • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    It's funny that this is posted in "A Boring Dystopia" and "Positive News". What looks positive with narrow vision is often dystopian when taken to its conclusion.

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    [–] [S] 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    But can you afford the chatgippity treatment?

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