Doctors Who Code: Why Physicians Should Build Artificial Intelligence | Logan Nye | TEDxBoston

Logan Nye, MD is a physician who develops artificial intelligence systems for patient care. While building diagnostic AI at Harvard Medical School, he realized that clinical AI suffers from a gap in understanding between physicians and data scientists. Physicians understand medicine, but cannot code. Developers can build models, but lack medical expertise. This makes the process of building AI for healthcare slow and inaccurate. But what if one person could do both - a doctor who codes? That's what Logan Nye does, and that's where he believes the medical field is heading.

[handson]

Logan that’s true, you are quite literally the biggest nerd I’ve ever met… I haven’t met any other nerds as swole as you. Congrats on your Ted talk and the direction you’re taking your career - I’m excited to see where you go from here.

[ryanotterson]

대박!! Would be awesome to see this technology improve diagnostic abilities ❤

[commanderthorkilj.amundsen]

An informative, well articulated TED talk. As a physician-researcher of four decades experience, I’m amazed at how many diagnoses are delayed and missed by physicians, PA’s, APRN’s NOT due to lack of knowledge or diagnostic skills, but due to distractions by demands of the medical record keeping and high patient volumes.
We don’t NEED AI as anything other than another tool WE CONTROL.

GENERALIZED AI, on the other hand, will absolutely prove to be our undoing, and further separate tech saturated humans from NATURE and the BIOSPHERE.
JOB LOSS-physicians and nurses will be obsolete, & engineers, builders, teachers, technicians in all fields.
The militarization of AI is already being implemented. As resources become scarce, WAR is inevitable, and of cataclysmic, life-ending proportions, humans predictably engaged in power and control conflict, as they have throughout history.
As Hawking said, AI will be man’s final invention.
So by developing AI applications, YOU are helping accelerate this dystopian path. Not good.

[UsmleAspirantPediatrician]

Hey!
I am a pediatrics resident in Greece, currently doing my Master of Science in Pediatrics and sitting the USMLE examinations.
I've recently started private coding and machine learning lessons, but I'm feeling a bit lost on what steps to take next to pursue this exciting career that combines coding and medicine.
I truly believe that the intersection of coding and medicine holds incredible potential, and your insights on the topic would be invaluable. Is there a way I can reach out to you directly to discuss this further? I would greatly appreciate your thoughts and guidance on the path ahead. Thank you for sharing such interesting content!

[mustafa_altreki]

Really inspiring


Can I steal his way of life? 🙂

We need more people like him

[joshoa]

This is very interesting. I can already see the day when doctors are almost completely phased out in the early stages of health care. No longer would you need a doctors time and skill to diagnose you. You simply consult an AI interface to receive a very accurate diagnosis and then a human doctor maybe administers treatment afterwards.

This to me means affordable and effective health care for lower income people. Cementing your assertion that this will save lives. It’s revolutionary.

[jasvindercr]

Great, inspiring. But how to start is an important question. Can someone guide?

[kensingtonroads]

Can’t wait to see you cure cancer Logan

[waldomonroy]

Did he use chat gpt to build a program?