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Lady Butterfly she/her@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

Kent hospital first to use AI to identify infections in patients

www.bbc.co.uk

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Kent hospital first to use AI to identify infections in patients

www.bbc.co.uk

Lady Butterfly she/her@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago
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Staff in Canterbury say using the software frees up time to focus on caring for patients.
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    Which kind of AI? I certainly hope not LLMs.

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      Probably the same type of image recognition that volunteers have been training for years on data sets ranging from exoplanets to tumor cells.

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        The kind that has the side effect of making those doctors worse at their jobs

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      It says it in the article, it just takes some data from the patients chart and calculates a score for the person’s risk of getting an infection.

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