This week on Inland Journal. the next in our series about artificial intelligence.
We start with Dr. Andrew Trister, who bills himself as a physician-scientist and an A-I executive. He has worked for Apple, the Gates Foundation and as Alphabet’s chief medical and science officer. We’ll talk about how the medical community is using A-I and how that affects the interactions you have with your health care providers.
"We want to really ensure that tools go beyond simply marking down what the physician and patient said to one another, and move more and more towards that really tough thing of being a doctor, of giving some bad news, maybe, or potentially making the right decision, given a circumstance, still is in the hands of the physicians on behalf of those patients, rather than being fully automated."
Then, we’ll meet two men who work in the field for the Spokane firm IntelliTect. Clayton Gravatt is a data and A-I architect. Dan Olvera is a software engineer.
What are the best applications for A-I? What is its future? How are companies learning to use it in the ways that are right for them? And what about the tech workforce? How will A-I affect them?
"I think our concerns, and at least my expertise where we do our pros and cons, is around how much data do you give it access to and what capabilities? So read and write, very different. If it can read systems, especially if it's not confidential data, there's little risk. But as soon as you put confidential data or writing systems or being able to delete things, that's when you get to be a lot more judicious about how you expose your data."
There are lots of questions about AI. We’ll present a few answers today on Inland Journal.
