Mind the Gap: The AI Diagnosing You Was Trained Wrong
[serious] Somewhere in a hospital right now — maybe in Ontario, maybe in Ohio — a doctor is glancing at a screen. An AI model is telling them a patient has a fourteen percent chance of developing type two diabetes in the next five years. [concerned] And that number looks so precise. So clean. So... medical. Except — according to Nature — dozens of these disease-prediction models were trained on da...
In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.
Takeaway: [laughing] A hundred and twenty countries, Maya!
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