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AI Saves 17% more lives
*New* Prompt of the Week!
Hello Tensor Black Fans!
We’re adding a “Prompt of the Week” to help you get started with AI. As in… right now.
As for news, among a dizzying array of new AI model releases, multi-billion dollar regional AI investments by Microsoft, ChatGPT challenging Google Search, disappointing reviews of AI gadgets like the Rabbit and Humane’s Pin… we found five articles that continue to push the frontier of AI in Oncology!
Topping the list? AI has been shown to save 17% more lives by doctors who use it, than those without.
Level up:
AI Alerts Save 17% More Lives
A New Way to Detect Skin Cancer
WebGPU Turns Your Browser into an AI
AI: the next TikTok?
RadioPharma Gets the Billion-dollar Nod
Protein Folding in your Browser
Have a great week,
The TensorBlack Team
AI helps you learn, even with just 30 minutes to spare. Paste the following prompt into Gemini, ChatGPT or Claude (see an example here). For [skill], we suggest “using [AI] to help me with daily administrative tasks and social media as a practicing oncologist.”
I want to learn/get better at [skill].
I am a complete beginner, but well educated. Create a 5-day learning plan that will help a beginner like me learn and improve this skill. I only have a 30 minutes each night, so focus on the most impactful outcomes for that 30 minutes. Give specific links and names of companies I can use. Be very specific I don't have much time to interpret anything ambiguous.
What’s Hot
Nature published research showing that doctors who received ECG warning alerts from AI were able to save 17% more patients.
Details
AI ECG alerts reduced mortality by 17%
High-risk patients saw a 31% decrease.
Study marks a significant shift in medical AI, focusing on life-saving impacts.
Benefits' mechanisms unclear, mainly helping high-risk patients.
Why it Matters
Many oncologists and their staff suffer from burnout.
AI can watch live medical devices and help us focus precious attention, regardless of what’s next on the rounds.
Save more lives, in less time, by having AI help us focus.
Scientists at Warwick University are using Terahertz waves, one million times less damaging than X-rays, to detect the extent of skin cancer with AI.
Details
Mohl surgeons and ultrasound usually detect the extent of melanoma
Terahertz (THz) waves provide an alternative with less energy and cost than x-rays or MRI
THz detects the difference in water content between healthy skin and cancer.
Why it Matters
Terahertz scans are a promising, non-invasive technique to improve melanoma surgeries and reduce impact on healthy skin.
Engineers have squeezed Microsoft’s latest Phi3 Large Language Model into a browser at a speed comparable to the original ChatGPT using WebGPU.
Details
Microsoft released Phi3 last week - a compact, powerful LLM
Phi3 is designed for smaller devices and cost-efficient use cases
Engineers used Ratchet to run Phi3 inside a browser
You need a PC with a GPU or a Mac with an M2/M3 chip
Why it Matters
ChatGPT within a browser was unthinkable 18 months ago, often requiring multiple NVidia GPUs at $40,000 or more, which are also in short supply.
You can run an AI within your browser, on your own data, using a WebGPU without paying a monthly fee or expensive costs. Try it yourself!
Friends from Oxford released MyShell, an open platform for sharing, creating and replicating AI agents with open source tools.
Details
MyShell.ai is an open blend of the ChatGPT Store and character.ai
The founders want everyone to build AI
Revenue models mirror TikTok, Instagram and YouTube Shorts
Why it Matters
AI is not an API or tool. Its a collaborator.
Platforms like MyShell.Ai will start to proliferate, vying to become the marketplace for AI labor, both for consumers and the enterprise.
Novartis bolsters their oncology pipeline with a $1 billion Mariana Oncology acquisition, adding cutting-edge radiopharma therapies for breast, prostate, and lung cancer, including promising candidate MC-339 for small cell lung cancer.
Details
Mariana Oncology's radioligand therapy (RLT) uses a specialized molecule that hones in on specific receptors on cancer cells.
Once the molecule binds to the cancer cell, it delivers radiation directly to the tumor, damaging its DNA and slowing down its growth.
AI can help identify the best candidates for this therapy based on genetic and molecular characteristics, optimizing treatment outcomes.
Why it Matters
The red-hot sector of RadioPharma therapies are starting to land, becoming a promising new tool in the arsenal of oncologists.
Bio.AI — oops, 310.ai — released a tutorial to quickly generate proteins with AI, predict their function with AI, and play with 3D shapes in a browser.
Details
Why it Matters
Programming biology has been a dream for nearly two decades (thanks Ginkgo BioSciences).
Recent advances that use generative AI to understand the language of biology are starting to work, as easy as launching a browser.
Hang onto your hat.