Aviva Klompas Because it is less about the exact number as it is about the clear,
consistent & horrific testimonies that so many of our colleagues providing care have witnessed first hand. Discussing a number is one thing, pretending the current suffering can be remotely acceptable is another.

A door blows open in your mind when you learn about the suffix -le, it explains so much. People used to add it to verbs to mean ‘more than once’ or continuously—so originally, to ramble is to ‘roam’ on, to jostle is to joust repeatedly, and to sparkle is to emit lots of sparks.

Three trends to watch that will shape the future of what AI will mean for us:
1) The unknown capabilities of frontier models
2) Growing evidence of 'superhuman' LLM performance in some areas
3) Autonomous agents
Taken together, the implications are large. oneusefulthing.org/p/what-just-ha…

One of the challenges of working with patients with serious illnesses and difficult memories is worrying about how to make sure their involvement does not do harm - this is very helpful guidance Jim Elliott

#CochraneDaily Just published! Stephen Senn's new James Lind Library article about David Brunt's The Combination of Observations, a handbook on what we now call meta-analysis that was published more than a century ago jameslindlibrary.org/articles/an-ea… James Lind Stephen John Senn

Well said Behnood! Every 'landmark' trial has a sell-by-date.
Keep telling these truths to cardiologists: look at the trial populations, the co-pharmacy, the selection biases, the changes in aetiology over time, the careless extrapolations, the embedded habits...

Everyone interested in the future of medicine needs to read this book.
It is very clearly written and shows that GenAI has already advanced to the point that medical decision making and training should be unthinkable without its assistance.
Adam Rodman David Fraile Navarro

Professor Emeritus in Public Health Ruairidh Milne from Southampton Medicine partnered with our economic modelling experts to produce one of the first macroeconomic impact assessments of Long Covid in the UK.🔍📊

Find out more here👉bit.ly/3xv0303 #longtermsickness

Carmen Gutierrez They could even be antagonistic to the user in some contexts. Instead of sycophantic AIs, always trying to please us, used with caution, and AI that confronts your ideas would be an incredible powerful tool for personal growth. As proposed here: arxiv.org/abs/2402.07350

For the record, I think AI can help us develop many of these skills, and that more on-the-job skills will need to be taught in formal education. Those efforts will need to be deliberate.

But corporate training programs are about
to become much more important to company success.

Asking all my Twitter friends to read this book before saying anything about generative AI.

GPs urged to consider the benefits of generative #AI - new editorial from medically trained and AI in healthcare specialists, Dr David Fraile Navarro David Fraile Navarro and Prof Enrico Coiera for MJA
Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) Digital Health AU Digital Health CRC #GP
insightplus.mja.com.au/2024/13/gps-ur…

My GPTs for people reading academic papers on Twitter:
Why is this important? chat.openai.com/g/g-jcGK9yHuC-…
Is it causal? Explains whether a paper makes a causal claim: chat.openai.com/g/g-GGnYfbTin-…
I’ll look that up for you: show it a screenshot, it finds the source: chat.openai.com/g/g-HThV0Y8e2-…

Overjoyed to see this from Sam and James, after so many marvellous encounters and chats with them ovet the years.

Escoffier’s love child 🦀 (🗑️ 🔥) Ahmad Barotchi The real problem is, as one of old bosses put to me, all clinical leadership careers end in failure.

You will be inevitably be asked to do something that you cannot do or should not do.

Agents represent the first break away from the chatbot and copilot models for interacting with AI.

There is something different about assigning a task to an agent like Devin, and then not worrying about it because you know it is on it & will message you if it has any questions.

#Statistics throught of the day: If sponsors knew how much money was wasted with fixed sample size designs, and how much earlier Bayesian sequential designs would have bailed out on ineffective treatments, they'd be shocked. hbiostat.org/bayes/bet/desi…

Public ignorance about making wise health choices a catastrophe (COVID!). Solution: school-age education. International group doing amazing work. Latest teaches teenagers to think critically about health choices. More including April 25th webinar on blog. 3ieimpact.org/blogs/teaching…

She was wonderful.
So sad to hear of her death.

alf collins Richard Lehman Ash Paul McMaster University Pritesh Mistry Prof. Tammy Hoffmann Or indeed co-produced decision making ('let's have a conversation where I give some informational input if you want and see where we get to...')