Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 2nd/3rd March 2024
Tech Strikes Back by Nadia Asparouhova
“The letter was initially signed by over a thousand people, many of whom were not just concerned citizens but AI technologists themselves, including Yoshua Bengio, a pioneer of artificial intelligence research; Elon Musk, one of OpenAI’s original co-founders...”
TfL's AI Tube Station experiment is amazing and slightly terrifying by James O'Malley
“When it was posted, it was – as the cartoon says – virtually impossible for a computer to analyse the contents of images reliably. The idea that we could write software to recognise objects in photos was pretty much science fiction. But a decade on, this sort of image recognition technology is ubiquitous....”
Is private equity going to come to digital health’s rescue? by Christina Farr
“Imagine you’re an up-and-comer at a private equity firm. You are looking for that next great deal that will put your name on the map. And as you look across the digital health market, you see a lot of potential but also a lot of problems. In investor parlance, these deals have hair on them.…”
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