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Is anybody currently feeding a country's worth (e.g. Israel) of medical records into an AI and asking it to come up with novel off-label uses of medicine? E.g.
by unsupp0rted 4y ago
Is anybody currently feeding a country's worth (e.g. Israel) of medical records into an AI and asking it to come up with novel off-label uses of medicine?
E.g. "TDAP Tetanus vaccine = 42% lower risk of dementia in older adults"... more findings like this would be great.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33856020/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33856020/
- sigmar 4y ago>Several vaccine types are linked to decreased dementia risk, suggesting that these associations are due to nonspecific effects on inflammation rather than vaccine-induced pathogen-specific protective effects. Doesn't this make it sound like there's a confounding factor? Such as: vaccines are more common in people that are wealthier or people that choose to align their lifestyles with recommendations from doctors?
- kjs3 4y agoIn my dark little heart of hearts, I know there's some US insurance company executives sitting around thinking "how can I use machine learning to automate the process of denying coverage based on 'trends' or whatever that I won't have to justify because I'm not obligated to make the LLMs decision process transparent to anyone".