Technobabble To English: A Buzzword Guide For Medical AI And Digital Health

Navigating AI in medicine and digital health can feel like ordering a coffee at that new hipster café downtown: exciting yet slightly overwhelming with a menu that seems to be in a different language. A while ago we published a buzzword dictionary to help you decode the most frequently repeated terms. Back then artificial intelligence and machine learning were rarely heard exotic expressions, but as quite a few years have passed, a whole new set of mambo-jambo emerged, waiting to be explained.  You’re probably sick of hearing the latest digital health buzzwords without any actual context, so let’s translate this technobabble into plain English. Here is our survival guide in the bewildering world of digital health terminology. We’re decoding the lingo, from radiomics and theranostics to LLM and GenAI – ensuring you’re not just nodding along when discussing these topics.  Generative AI, aka GenAI The wunderkind of the past year, generative AI goes beyond simple automation, venturing into the world of creation. This term refers to a category of AI algorithms that look for patterns and structures in the sample data and develop new ones. For example, it can simulate discussions and learn how we, people, would be satisfied with the results. But it does it billions of times a day. So it improves at an unbelievable rate.  Most GenAI algorithms can create a single kind of output, it can be text, image, video, music, code, and the l...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine buzzword AI in medicine generative AI in medicine Source Type: blogs