One of the coolest machine learning stories in recent memory involved the Google Duplex, a voice A.I. capable of calling a restaurant and making your dinner reservation while pretending to be human: Simulating a personal assistant is cool, but it would be cooler to simulate a highly trained physician…

As a hybrid physician/engineer, I spend a lot of time pondering how new platforms can empower doctors. I am particularly excited about the potential of smart speakers coupled with advances in A.I. and natural language processing (also looking at you, blockchain). I am bullish on conversational agents in general, previously…

Introduction I have been excited about conversational agents for some time, previously building an iOS chatbot simulating a human radiologist powered by Watson. As a delightful weekend project, I sat down with my glorious corgi and lots of coffee and built a radiology assistant for Google Home. It is designed to…

Did you ever think we would have the technology to transform a modern bird into a prehistoric dinosaur? To, theoretically speaking, give a pig wings and make it fly? To evolve a mere cat into the far superior dog? Well, this is about to be you right now: Enter CRISPR…

You have a brilliant machine learning idea, hard-earned technical ability, and the capacity for airtight execution. Nonetheless, a challenge remains: navigating the complex layers of bureaucracy needed to please “the man” and attain permission to share your technology with the world. Machine learning is clearly the hottest topic in HealthTech…

There has been a lot of talk about Butterfly Network and their iQ ultrasound probe, which at first glance seems like just another point-of-care ultrasound probe in a saturated market. It certainly looks like the competition: On closer examination, however, the iQ probe has features “under the hood” that make…