Attendees at HIMSS in Orlando, Florida 2024.Courtesy of HIMSSThis technology allows doctors to consensually record their visits with patients. The conversations are automatically transformed into clinical notes and summaries using artificial intelligence. Companies like Microsoft’s Nuance Communications, Abridge and Suki have developed solutions with these capabilities, which they argue will help reduce doctors’ administrative workloads and prioritize meaningful connections with patients. “After I see a patient, I have to write notes, I have to place orders, I have to think about the patient summary,” Dr. Shiv Rao, founder and CEO of Abridge, told CNBC at HIMSS. “So what our technology does…
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Illustration by Harry Campbell I’m just a soul trapped in this circuitry.” The voice singing those lyrics is raw and plaintive, dipping into blue notes. A lone acoustic guitar chugs behind it, punctuating the vocal phrases with tasteful runs. But there’s no human behind the voice, no hands on that guitar. There is, in fact, no guitar. In the space of 15 seconds, this credible, even moving, blues song was generated by the latest AI model from a startup named Suno. All it took to summon it from the void was a simple text prompt: “solo acoustic Mississippi Delta blues…
Image Credits: ZooxTechCrunch Mobility is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click TechCrunch Mobility — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. I spent a few days in Austin for SXSW, where I met with up founders and executives, caught a few talks and even moderated two panels. While generative AI was clearly the big attraction, the future of transportation still garnered attention from investors, urban planners, founders, corporations and media. I…
We’ve already gotten a taste of artificial intelligence’s (AI) potential thanks to various products and services — from chatbot ChatGPT to AI-powered medical devices. But there’s a lot more to discover and develop. And this is why now is the perfect time to get in on AI stocks: We’ve seen this technology’s potential, but this growth story is just beginning. And that means AI stocks offer us the possibility of tremendous gains down the road.And AI stocks can be found in many industries, considering a broad range of companies are investing in this technology. That means an investment in AI…
A boom in artificial intelligence (AI) kicked off last year and became a leading driver in the Nasdaq Composite’s rise of 43% in 2023. Wall Street rallied around the tech stocks most likely to profit from the industry in the coming years. Despite the AI market’s meteoric rise, it seems nowhere near its ceiling. According to Grand View Research, the sector hit close to $200 billion in 2023 and is expected to develop at a compound annual growth rate of 37% until at least 2030. For reference, that trajectory would see the market soar to almost $2 trillion by the…
It’s been another banner start to the year for Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite have all firmly placed the 2022 bear market in the rearview mirror and blasted to record-closing highs. While there have been pockets of strength in various sectors and industries, much of the heavy lifting for the current bull market can be attributed to the “Magnificent Seven.” As their collective name implies, the Magnificent Seven are seven of the largest and most influential publicly traded companies. They’re often industry leaders (sometimes in more than one category) and traditionally on the…
Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Google researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence system that can generate lifelike videos of people speaking, gesturing and moving — from just a single still photo. The technology, called VLOGGER, relies on advanced machine learning models to synthesize startlingly realistic footage, opening up a range of potential applications while also raising concerns around deepfakes and misinformation. Described in a research paper titled “VLOGGER: Multimodal Diffusion for Embodied Avatar Synthesis,” the AI model can take a photo of a person…
In mushroom foraging, there’s little room for error. Researcher Rick Claypool learned this the hard way.A few months into his foraging hobby, Claypool picked a basket of what he thought were honey mushrooms, fried them in a pan and ate them with ramen noodles. Then his stomach felt weird.Fast-forward through some frantic Googling and a trip to the emergency room, Claypool learned he’d been right in the first place — the mushrooms weren’t poisonous. Doctors labeled his symptoms as a panic attack and sent him home.Others haven’t been so lucky. An Oregon family was hospitalized in 2015 after eating mushrooms…
College hoops fans might want to think again before pinning their hopes of a perfect March Madness bracket on artificial intelligence.While the advancement of artificial intelligence into everyday life has made “AI” one of the buzziest phrases of the past year, its application in bracketology circles is not so new. Even so, the annual bracket contests still provide plenty of surprises for computer science aficionados who’ve spent years honing their models with past NCAA Tournament results. They have found that machine learning alone cannot quite solve the limited data and incalculable human elements of “The Big Dance.”“All these things are…
The work of so-called “solutions professionals” – people like sales engineers, solution architects and consultants – revolves around pitching complex business technology to potential customers. It’s important work. However, despite this happening, solution teams are rarely staffed and resourced adequately, according to entrepreneur Dan Chen. “Solution Teams bring technical credibility to the sales movement and help the customer understand exactly what they are buying and why,” Chen told TechCrunch in an interview. “They are the unsung heroes of the business-to-business sales organization, yet they are constantly overlooked.” Chen, formerly a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital and co-founder of…
