🧪 AI in Healthcare Recording, 🥅 2025 Career Goals, 💻 Hybrid Quantum Supercomputer
Volume 19
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➡️Silicon Society’s Fireside Chat series is where our broader community (that’s you, our newsletter crew!) can listen to innovators and outside-the-box thinkers in tech - and our AI in Healthcare chat did not disappoint. Watch the full recording with Lynn Shapiro Snyder and Rachel Snyder Good to learn about creating a compliance process, how AI can provide less-biased care, and other both practical and hot takes.
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Curated media from the past few weeks:
New Research Suggests Overreliance on AI Could Hinder Critical Thinking
We know, we know - correlation does not equal causation from every new study but goodness does this article hit-the-nail-on-the-head when explaining how the use of AI tools to 10x output results in diminished analytical skills. Put on your critical thinking hat and dive in…
🗯️Quotable Bit: “But they also point out, ‘A key irony of automation is that by mechanising routine tasks and leaving exception-handling to the human user, you deprive the user of the routine opportunities to practice their judgement and strengthen their cognitive musculature, leaving them atrophied and unprepared when the exceptions do arise.’"
Using Lasers to Fight Climate Change
Tracking extremely potent methane emissions can have a huge impact on future climate goals, and this new laser and data-driven detection technology super reduces the time for leak detection. Always love a good data-for-good application that is a no-brainer for industry to adopt. Watch and learn more.
🗯️Quotable Bit: “This is a fun place to be as a climate scientist, because it’s a place we can all row in the same direction… it’s a win-win. If you can give them data to help them make their operations better while also reducing emissions, that’s a win-win for climate and the industry.”
World's 1st hybrid quantum supercomputer goes online in Japan
Scientists just dropped a quantum computing hybrid called Reimei that's basically giving supercomputers superpowers by mashing up regular computing with quantum tricks. By using trapped ions and error-correction, they're bringing us closer to computers that'll make today's fastest machines look like old-school calculators.
🗯️Quotable Bit: “Quantum computers could one day overtake classical computers, with the potential to complete calculations in minutes or seconds that would otherwise take today's most powerful machines millions of years. However, until quantum computers are large and reliable enough, scientists say that integrating their capabilities into supercomputers can be a stopgap.”