Thoughts on the AI Webinar

[BU2B]

Hopefully a few of you were able to make it to todays Webinar on AI:Helpful or Harmful and how it is and will be used specifically for NAFLD/NASH diagnosis, treatment and patient care.

Like Wayne, I’m pretty excited about the future of AI and Machine learning and how it will be used to benefit all our lives in yet unknown ways. The boogie man of of the SkyNet/Mr.Jones AI created by Hollywood & the media has some folks scared but THIS is real life - those are entertainment pieces for those who don’t own roller coasters.

We humans often mess up - but since history pretty clearly shows - as a species (not always as a government or authority) but as individuals - human intentions are far more noble than not. If one person is good and intelligent - why? Exactly is aggregating and deciphering the actions of multiple individuals Artificial and bad??!? It’s a set up folks 😂 You can’t trust truth!?!?? Uh 🙄

Data = good. Filtered data for the public & data mining of the masses to fill pockets & different data for the elite = bad.

The future is looking both amazing and awe inspiring and is unfolding right in front of our feet. Pretty cool actually. The ONLY thing that has me a bit frustrated and concerned is the overpowering amount of talk on how this will improve Dr. & medical workloads and allow for data aggregation & modeling never dreamed of in the past with very little talk of how this advancing technology can or will be used to actually help and improve the lives of those with NAFLD/NASH/cirrhosis & patient advocacy other than the joy of having access to all of your medical data in one place. Which at this point you’re going to have to use something like the woefully inadequate Bing AI to decipher - as the fact is most dr.s do not talk with their patients but instead talk at them once every six months or so. Though Dr. Mistry did mention useful things like where would be the best place for an MRI IRL it’s a choice of local, 5 hour round trip or 10 hour round trip - MY choice in real life NOT statistically is the closest one that can do it - the same people are gonna read it Go AI?

The potential is through the roof - the results of how this is going to affect your life and health have yet to be tabulated, aggregated & modeled.

Keep your eyes on this one and your mouth open for patient advocacy. This train is coming into the station.

[Livmar]

The ability to take massive amounts of data and do calculations within an incredibly small amount of time is phenomenal. It would take humans days, weeks, months or even years to come up with the same results. Real concerns are ethics and security. Who will have your data and access to it.

[BU2B in reply to Livmar]

At least we have a good group on our side working on that. The responsibility and privacy is NOT being taken lightly. The fact is that there is already enough data out there for practically anyone that what is publicly available is already being used to extrapolate and re-identify individuals with or without the need for your consent. It’s a brave new world in more ways than one. Two opposable thumbs up for the good guys … if you attended or watched the webinar you met a few of them. 🫶🏽

WHO has your data and access to it - would be a great place to start 🤣

[Livmar in reply to BU2B]

I do wish all the big data could be aggregated, modeled and utilized particularly with liver disease for education purposes for PCP’s, Nurse Practitioners, Endocrinologists, Hematologist’s, our school system and even perhaps our employment companies.

We truly are lacking education across the board and far too many of us are getting the dreadful news that we have cirrhosis when it is too late and something could have been done much earlier.

Our society right now is setup to bankrupt our healthcare system if we do not take action. No one is eating healthy and obesity is rampant which brings about every illness imaginable for many of us culminating in cirrhosis.

I pray and hope that education can play a big part utilizing AI and big data. I can dream 🤔.