HeyJaredJournal of a Data Analyst
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The Choices AI Can't Make for Us (opens the original)
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We spend a lot of energy asking what could go wrong when we introduce AI, and we should. AI can automate bad decisions, amplify existing problems, and let mistakes repeat at a scale we haven’t dealt with before.At the same time, AI is amazing technology. It gives us ways to solve problems we couldn’t solve before, improve processes that have frustrated us for years, and do things at a scale that wasn’t possible manually.I was reading about AI in healthcare and came across two ideas almost back t
Has AI made human judgment more relevant than ever? (opens the original)
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A while back, in a conversation about AI and healthcare, I thought about something: when a machine makes the wrong decision, who’s responsible? As a clinician, if I gave a patient the wrong treatment based on a wrong diagnosis, that’s malpractice. I could lose my license. If a machine does that, who’s there to answer for it?AI has amazing potential to solve big problems, but also to amplify others. We could use it to diagnose diseases faster, help teachers personalize learning, or make data anal
The Best AI Doesn't Feel Like AI (opens the original)
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A friend of mine, not in tech, told me her company was pushing everyone to use AI. She was frustrated. She said: “I am not against AI. It has very cool features, but I don’t care about cool. I care about getting my job done. I went back and forth using AI for something at work, it consumed my time, and I ended up doing my work manually because it was faster.”Stories like this are not uncommon. That’s AI being applied in the wrong place. AI is supposed to reduce friction. Using it just for the sa
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