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Two Teenage Girls Killed in Collision in Sattahip
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Trump’s $500 Billion AI Plan Leaves Europe in the Dust
Its (upto) $500bn pledged by American and Arab investors over the next 5 years. Musk is probably right that its not enough, The press releases are promising to cure cancer with this. They also came up with a bizarre telehealth application that will enable rural docotrs to understand how top city doctors treat patients. Er, they already do this. Its called Google (or your favourite search engine). Whoever came up with this doesn't understand medical malpractice law, which restricts what doctors want to do for fear of being sued. This is why treatment guidelines exist. Follow the guidelines, and even if the patient dies, you can't be blamed, as you did your best. Do something different, well, you're on your own in the Court. The numbers invested in AI is vast. I have a vested interest in this. In the last 5 years, US Companies have raised about $400 bn in investment in AI technologies. There are similar numbers elsewhere. And that's just healthcare. The $500bn is cross-sector, mainly to build infrastructure. Say there is $100 bn set aside for healthcare. Its a decent amount, but not transformative in the way portrayed. Like any of these transformative projects, such as the Manhattan Project, Roosevelt's March of Dimes, The Human Genome Project, Operation Warpspeed, for Project Stargate to succeed, it need public money, not just an elected official turning a blind eye to regulation. There is going to be conflict coming up among American concservatives soon in healthcare. Currently the market is infected with unregulated healthcare Apps, powered by AI. Some are good, many are not. The FDA, itself created because of mistakes when the first polio vaccines were produced, is in charge of regulating medical and therapeutic products in the US. With AI, they are facing a similar challenge to when genetic tests first appeared in the 1980s. Back then, the FDA didn't really understand these tests, and couldn't keep pace. So they decided, back then, that a competant lab could be trusted to understand how to do the tests, and understand what the results mean, so introduced "CLIA waived" tests, so that innovative breakthroughs wouldn't be held up with red tape. Sounds a good idea, right, trust the experts. 40 years on, the labs are performing tests that they don't understand the results of, and the testing companies now are trying to shortcut the doctors with direct to consumer tests. Its a mess. Not wanting to repeat this, the FDA wants to be more careful with AI. It needs congressional approval to allow the FDA, ie the Federal government, to access the medical records of all Americans, in order to test the efficacy of these new Apps. The Prize is great; a potential transformation in medicine, but is the price worth it? In dystopian fiction, when governments get hold of citizen biometrics, it usually doesn't end well. Now, that's fiction, and plenty of politicians in the US these days seem to base their world view using fiction. The EU is losing out on AI Healthcare innovation because EU regulators are very keen to protect the medical records of EU Citizens. This hobbles companies with smaller training datasets compared to competitors in, say, China. AI success in healthcare is largely dependant on which country is willing to monetize their population's health. The UK does this quite well, given the NHS holds the world's largest single healthcare system medical record repository. For healthcare, AI cannot be a nationalist pursuit. It needs global cooperation, to prevent malevolant actors pursue their own agendas. Thats why the Human Genome Project was international; to sequence the human genome, so no one country would own the sequence. The US missed a Leadership opportunity. It could have lead an effort to harness the benefits of AI for all mankind, instead its gone for the short term profit direction. People complain about "Big Pharma", that it doesn't have the interest of patients at its heart, and that's partly true. Before WW2, the Pharmaceutical Industry didn't really exist. Your medicines came from chemical companies. But then WW2 came, and the plans to liberate Europe. The Allies wanted penicillin, lots of it, in time for Overlord. The Americans awarded the contract to a few quite small companies, Abbott, Pfizer, Merck and Bristol-Myers Squibb, all now among the biggest corporations in the world. They never looked back. -
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Pattaya police raid Chinese gang boss’s luxury home
Bronze close to the old price available on special until June IIRC. -
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Medical care and Insurance
My wife and I have been living in the UK for the last 20 years. Our children are both living in Thailand and we are keen to settle in Thailand. My wife is concerned about the healthcare and how ex-pats will be treated. We will have private medical insurance. Can anyone provide their experiences of the medical service and the way in which farangs are treated. Many thanks. -
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Cancelling work permit late
No, The immigration and labor office database aren't linked and you have to do the WP cancallation seperate. Correct, as he still receives money from the company it is regarded work and needs a valid WP. The employer or the employee shoud go to the labor office to cancel the WP. -
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