James Mickens on the value of skepticism — Notes & questions on James Mickens’ talk at USENIX Security ‘18 If you haven’t seen James’ talk and have an hour to view his actual keynote, please do yourself a favor and just go see his talk. It’s entertaining, educational, and thought provoking. Absolutely not to be missed — the…

2018.01 podcast (Epicenter) — My notes on Epicenter podcast: Andrew Trask: OpenMined — A Decentralised Artificial Intelligence Platform Facilitated private machine learning: train ML models on users’ data without exposing that data or uploading/aggregating that data. How? A user downloads a model and trains it on their data. The training process yields an update…

In studying AI, ML, and the general advance of technology — and observing the response to the hype that surrounds all that — I’m compelled to ask whether we’re fully considering our power in determining the nature of the influence of technology. …

Radiology’s inevitable evolution — — Caveat emptor: Written in November 2017. Progress in AI is astonishingly rapid: this will soon be out of date. — Artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging is a controversial topic — up for debate are questions regarding its implementation (from both technical and regulatory standpoints), ultimate potential (presuming it…

AI doesn’t just ‘happen’. Data is fed in and converted to a result. That result is deterministically produced; an algorithm transforms the input to an output. There is no magic. So, why the confusion? Even Geoffrey Hinton’s called AI a black box. I’m not an expert — yet — but…

Magical imaging — Much of the complexity of the human body is shrouded in mystery. But we know a lot more than we used to about its structure and function. Structure (anatomy), in particular, has been mapped out in meticulous detail. In the distant past, building up static anatomical maps relied on information…