Testing drug safety without patients, machines that are better than radiologists at detecting breast cancer, robots caring for the elderly…is this hype or the future? Dr Thad Woodard returns to guest host a program on artificial intelligence, robotics and your health on this edition of Line One: Your Health Connection.
HOST:Â Dr. Thad Woodard
GUEST:
- Pedro Domingos, PhD, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington and the author of The Master Algorithm.
LINKS:
- A 20 minute podcast from Scientific American featuring Dr Domingos and others on AI, robotics, and health
- Link to an article in The Economist on AI in medicine giving a real life example of a problem being resolved with AI
- Link to several examples of AI in science and health
- Harvard Business Review on promising artificial intelligence applications in health care
- Wikipedia information on artificial intelligence in healthcare
- Video from SciTech Now on robotics in medicine
PARTICIPATE:
- Call 550-8433 (Anchorage) or 1-888-353-5752  (statewide) during the live broadcast (2:00 – 3:00pm)
- Send email to lineone@alaskapublic.org before, during or after the live broadcast (e-mails may be read on air)
- Post your comment or question below (comments may be read on air)
LIVE BROADCAST: Monday, August 15th, 2018, at 2:00 p.m. AKDT
REPEAT BROADCAST:  Monday, August 15th, 2018, at 8:00 p.m. AKDT
DR. WOODARD’S FAVORITE HEALTH AND SCIENCE LINKS:
- This is a good site to start with, if you want to learn how to find reliable health information on the internet
- Mayo Clinic
- Cleveland Clinic
- MedlinePlus
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- HealthyChildren.org
- Denying to the Grave:Â Why We Ignore Facts That Will Save Us
- American College of Allergy,  Asthma & Immunology (ACAAI)
- Science Based Medicine
- Quackwatch
- Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit and common logical fallacies
- Michael Shermer’s suggestion for Baloney Detection: How to draw boundaries between science and pseudoscience
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