A pretty common definition of data democratization focuses on data access, but I think that’s wholly insufficient. Two questions: 1) How many of you have a library card? 2) How many of you know how to perform open-heart surgery? Probably way more of the former than the latter. You could go to the medical section of a library and find more than enough information there to learn how to perform that operation. But you don’t. It’s not a search issue, because any librarian could easily point you to a good book on the subject. So, why? Well first of all, not all the relevant information will be in one place. Sure, you could learn about the operation in one book, but what about another book that describes complications that could arise if the patient has a certain condition? How would you even know to ask about that book? Second of all, not all the information is in a form that’s appropriate for you. Those books are for doctors; reading and understanding are not the same thing. Third, many books straight up do not have the right information. You can find older medical texts that talk about the four humours, and if you’re not an expert on the subject, how would you know it’s wrong? Fourth, medicine is a rapidly changing field, so there may be recent research papers, or experiences that individual doctors have had, that aren’t in the library, but are critical to a positive outcome. So even from this simple example, it should be obvious that access to data isn’t enough. You need to aggregate, synthesize, summarize, enrich, interpret, corroborate, and so on, all of which can be done with modern AI techniques. Obviously, that’s a big part of the intelligence layer we built at Graft. How are other people solving these issues in practice? #graft #ai #datademocratization
“Reading and understanding are not the same thing” and the only way to understand intention is through reflection and writing. Both require time.
It sounds like using AI to make one's way toward wisdom.
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7moThat is right Adam Oliner, we just released our GenAI results of bridging that level of advanced medical science with patients via Sorcero PLS with Google Cloud, Lumanity, and UCB. GenAI is a complete GameChanger for patient accessibility and centricity.