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Do you trust AI chatbots for health advice? What about one in your patient portal?
Read full articleNadia Piet & Archival Images of AI + AIxDESIGN / AI Am Over It / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Misia Temler, University of Sydney With so many artificial intelligence (AI) products on offer now, it’s increasingly tempting to offload difficult thinking tasks to chatbots, agents and other tools. As we chart this new technological […]
Richard Dawkins and chatbots | LLM meaning | Flattery battery | Dancing in PE | Maths breakthrough The otherwise admirable Richard Dawkins should adjust the local settings of the chatbot or tell it to be less obsequious (Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn’t know it, 6 May). Such bots are initially geared to American overenthusiasm and egregiously flattering reinforcement, but just tell them you want British attitude. They’re only simulating you know. Brian Reffin Smith Berlin, Germany • With artificial intelligence bringing “large language models” into everyday use, the LLM after my name has acquired a new meaning. For 70 years I assumed that it referred to my Cambridge master of laws. Trevor Lyttleton London Continue reading...
Medication non‑adherence remains one of health care’s most persistent and expensive challenges. Across chronic conditions, only about half of patients take medications as prescribed, even when effective treatments are available. The consequences are significant: disease progression, avoidable hospitalizations, increased mortality, and hundreds of billions of dollars in preventable health care [...] The post From predicting risk to changing behavior: Rethinking medication adherence with agentic AI appeared first on SAS Blogs.
Pennsylvania sued an AI company, saying its chatbots illegally hold themselves out as doctors and are deceiving users into thinking they are getting medical advice from a licensed professional.
The University of Southern California wants to integrate artificial intelligence into fields like health care and the arts. Other universities are also using donations to focus more on A.I.
If Day 1 asked what organizations should scale with AI, Day 2 showed what that looks like when trusted technology, industry expertise and human judgment come together in the moments that matter. Day 2 of SAS Innovate 2026 moved quickly from vision to application. Across banking, health care and life [...] The post SAS Innovate 2026 Day 2: Where trusted AI meets real-world decisions appeared first on SAS Blogs.
It's been almost three years since Silicon Valley started aggressively pushing large language model-based chatbots like ChatGPT as the supposedly inevitable future of everything, and there's no group that has felt the pressure quite like Gen Z. Like with many tech trends before it, it's no surprise that young people are among the biggest adopters of AI chatbot tools. But contrary to the tales spun by tech companies like OpenAI and Google, polling data shows that Gen Z students and workers are a big part of the wider cultural backlash against AI. And even as they utilize these tools, vast swaths of young people are deeply acrimonious and eve … Read the full story at The Verge.
A compression algorithm like TurboQuant turns the data in the AI's working memory into a smaller, more efficient form.
