Michael Howell, MD MPH

A couple more amazing people came over here in the past few days 👇

Jeff Dean
@jeffdean.bsky.social
Chief Scientist at Google

Julia Adler-Milstein
@julia-adler-mils.bsky.social
Chief of the Division of Clinical Informatics at UCSF

If anybody happens to be in London, a great role just posted on one of my teams. It’s focused on high-quality research and discovery in the AI+health space, and requires a clinical background. Details (including required experience) at www.google.com/about/career...

#hiring #AI #health

A photo of a Steller’s Jay, with a blue body and black head, sitting on a branch.

A panoramic view of a hilltop with bright blue sky, some clouds, and the ocean in the distance.

Many things that I am thankful for, but one of them is the Long Ridge Preserve in the Santa Cruz mountains.

For What It’s Worth About a year ago, I died. Just for a few minutes, but long enough that I had a round of chest compressions so deep my sternum ached for weeks. At times my ribs hurt more than the long incision running...

The ICU diary-as-intervention literature is pretty extensive. One great clinician writer who I don’t think is on Bluesky yet is Catherine Humikowski. Here’s an example — jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... and there are more pointers at www.humikowski.com

Hey, #CriticalCare folks — Hannah Wunsch @hwunsch.bsky.social just made it over here 👇

A photo of a lecture by Effy Vayena on the implications of AI for bioethics

Really amazing to see #AI #ethics as the topic of Harvard Medical School’s oldest endowed lecture (est. 1917 by George Washington Gay, class of 1868). Effy Vayena’s talk was a tour de force on the implications of AI for bioethics.

bioethics.hms.harvard.edu/programming/...
@harvardmed.bsky.social

Generative artificial intelligence, patient safety and healthcare quality: a review The capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) have accelerated over the past year, and they are beginning to impact healthcare in a significant way. Could this new technology help address issues th...

My career has focused on patient safety & quality. Since I’ve now been at Google for a while, I often get asked what #AI means for quality & safety since we’re in the generative AI era. I wrote down some thoughts on the space, out now in BMJ Quality & Safety: qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/33/1....

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A picture of a comet over a building

Finally found a spot with clear enough skies to catch the comet tonight

#comet #tsuchinshan-atlas #astrophoto

8 April 2024 photo of solar eclipse during totality, showing a number of red dots on the edge and a halo of light around the full circumference.

I am *so* glad you explained this — had no idea what it was and couldn’t find it anywhere. Here’s what it looked like for me…

and thanks to @kbibbinsdomingo.bsky.social for having me on the podcast to do a deeper dive! edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/...

Three Epochs of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care This Special Communication examines the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) over the years, and how developments with AI can help decision-makers improve

All #AI is not the same. Grateful to get to share thoughts on a framework of AI 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 for healthcare in JAMA today:
AI 1.0 = symbolic AI and probabilistic models
AI 2.0 = the era of deep learning
AI 3.0 = foundation models and generative AI

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Green leaves with raindrops still on them.

Got out to Skyline Ridge just after the rain today

Welcome, @mlbarnett.bsky.social! I’ll add @laxswamy.bsky.social and @kbibbinsdomingo.bsky.social to the list!

Jupiter, somewhat grainy but with cloud bands clearly visible

Jupiter overexposed but with three moons visible in orbit.

These are fairly crummy photos, but they are just from a regular zoom lens plus a teleconverter. It’s shocking to me that you can see Jupiter that way. I don’t think I’m hallucinating the cloud bands in one, and in the other you can see three of Jupiter’s moons in orbit. #astrophotography

Well, ok, THAT’S exciting and now I know how I’ll be spending the first week in June…

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North American nebula, a couple of weeks ago, from the Bay Area in California. #NGC7000 #astrophotography

* The 60-page Gemini technical report with a ton of detail, including performance on MMLU and many other benchmarks: storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-med...

HUGE congrats to the teams at Google DeepMind and across the company on this milestone.
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Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model Gemini is our most capable and general model, built to be multimodal and optimized for three different sizes: Ultra, Pro and Nano.

Want more detail? You can see:
* Demis Hassabis's and Sundar Pichai's launch blog: blog.google/technology/a...
* The prompting strategy used in the video demo (hint: multimodal prompting is next-level) developers.googleblog.com/2023/12/how-...

Gemini is our natively multimodal AI model capable of reasoning across text, images, audio, video and code. This video highlights some of our favorite intera... Hands-on with Gemini: Interacting with multimodal AI

It's worth your time to watch this ~6 min video, if you're at all interested in what's next for #AI. youtu.be/UIZAiXYceBI

It can be hard to get a feel for WHY something is a technological step change ... but this demo of Google’s next foundation model gives a good sense. It's pretty mind-blowing.

Picture of the Dumbell nebula against a starfield

I’m amazed that it’s possible to take pictures of things like the Dumbbell Nebula from my back yard. The universe is wild. #NGC6853 #astrophotography

Hello, World!

So are we over here now?

Also, is #medsky the place to find interesting things?