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I read an interesting article on WIRED about the potential use for AI to help identify diseases, not only when people have those diseases, but whether or not people will go on to develop certain diseases.

The article was written by Craig Venter (PhD) who is the founder and CEO of the J Craig Venter Institute, a non-profit institute for genomics research. Dr Craig Venter is famous for leading the first draft sequence of the human genome. This article (shown below) is a reflective look at what's happened in 2020 and what this means for the J Craig Venter Institute and Human Longevity (of which he is founder for both).

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In many countries, Covid-19 has spread because of a popular scepticism about science, a political manipulation of data and an abundance of inaccurate information, spread in large part on social media but fuelled at some of the highest levels of governments. In 2021, we will understand that only by developing new, science-based approaches to disease detection will we avoid similar future catastrophes. My own country, the United States, has already provided a live demonstration of this fact. States that enforced practices such as social isolation/distancing, hand washing and use of sanitisers and face masks have had the lowest per capita rates of Covid-19 infection, averaging around 100 to 200 cases per 100,000 people. Compare that figure to the 2,300 per 100,000 people in states that did not enforce these measures. Reconnecting science with healthcare will have impressive results. One weakness of the world’s response to the pandemic has been its unwillingness to use science to predict vulnerabilities in individuals before they become ill. Not only have many countries been reluctant to perform widespread testing on people who show no Covid-19 symptoms, but they have also been caught seemingly by surprise when pre-existing conditions have exacerbated the disease. In 2021, we will see the application of a multimodal testing approach to detect propensities to diseases in people at very early stages. We are used to the idea that sequencing an individual’s genome can give a reasonable indication of the likelihood of developing a particular disease. In 2021, we will combine genomics with MRI imaging and machine learning to provide a more sophisticated snapshot of an individual’s health. In research published in 2020, my colleagues at Human Longevity and the J Craig Venter Institute, of both of which I am the founder, analysed data collected on thousands of individuals. By integrating whole-genome sequencing with advanced imaging and the analysis of blood metabolites, they were able to identify adults at risk for key conditions including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, chronic liver disease and more. The study demonstrated the importance of multimodal testing, rather than relying solely on the sequencing of an individual’s genotype. A lack of phenotype and genotype associations were observed in 5.8 per cent of individuals with pathogenic genetic variants, further suggesting that the identification of pathogenic genetic variants by sequencing alone is not sufficient for a definitive diagnosis. We intend to scale up this study in 2021 to test multimodal, preventative-medicine procedures on a larger cohort. The pandemic has temporarily derailed this effort but, with strong, knowledge-based leadership and a renewed trust in science, my hope is that 2021 will see us taking a significant leap towards a data-driven, multimodal approach to detecting disease.

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I have also used "Ada" android app - not like an advertisement or something here but you choose what do you feel is wrong and it shows the diseases, statistics and info, I liked it so maybe will you

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I have also used "Ada" android app - not like an advertisement or something here but you choose what do you feel is wrong and it shows the diseases, statistics and info, I liked it so maybe will you

That's really not what this article was talking about, but thanks all the same. The article was looking into the ability of AI to look at human genes and predict diseases they may get in the future.

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Reconnecting science with healthcare will have impressive results. One weakness of the world’s response to the pandemic has been its unwillingness to use science to predict vulnerabilities in individuals before they become ill. Not only have many countries been reluctant to perform widespread testing on people who show no Covid-19 symptoms, but they have also been caught seemingly by surprise when pre-existing conditions have exacerbated the disease.

This kinda reminds me of Psycho-Pass.

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Reconnecting science with healthcare will have impressive results. One weakness of the world’s response to the pandemic has been its unwillingness to use science to predict vulnerabilities in individuals before they become ill. Not only have many countries been reluctant to perform widespread testing on people who show no Covid-19 symptoms, but they have also been caught seemingly by surprise when pre-existing conditions have exacerbated the disease.

This kinda reminds me of Psycho-Pass.

Unfortunately, I've yet to watch Psycho-Pass. Why did that remind you of it?

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Unfortunately, I've yet to watch Psycho-Pass. Why did that remind you of it?

It has similar premise. It's set in a cyberpunk world where technology is developed that has the ability to detect people who will commit crime in the future. Of course cops who deal with the criminals on the daily basis tend to develop similar mindset so that they can do their job more efficiently hence cops are also flagged as positives.
It's not so much action show as a philosophical one, where they debate about "enforcing" utopia.
I only covered what was in the pilot to not spoil it for you if you wanna watch it.
But in my opinion it's a very good show. (A least the first season,  I didn't watch the second yet)

EDIT: also how they justified that technology is kinda similar to the part I quoted

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Unfortunately, I've yet to watch Psycho-Pass. Why did that remind you of it?

It has similar premise. It's set in a cyberpunk world where technology is developed that has the ability to detect people who will commit crime in the future. Of course cops who deal with the criminals on the daily basis tend to develop similar mindset so that they can do their job more efficiently hence cops are also flagged as positives.
It's not so much action show as a philosophical one, where they debate about "enforcing" utopia.
I only covered what was in the pilot to not spoil it for you if you wanna watch it.
But in my opinion it's a very good show. (A least the first season,  I didn't watch the second yet)

EDIT: also how they justified that technology is kinda similar to the part I quoted

That's really interesting. Thanks for taking the time to explain. There's several ethical issues already coming up regarding that in China, the US and the UK to name a few. I wonder what will happen.

[droid151]

Unfortunately, I've yet to watch Psycho-Pass. Why did that remind you of it?

It has similar premise. It's set in a cyberpunk world where technology is developed that has the ability to detect people who will commit crime in the future. Of course cops who deal with the criminals on the daily basis tend to develop similar mindset so that they can do their job more efficiently hence cops are also flagged as positives.
It's not so much action show as a philosophical one, where they debate about "enforcing" utopia.
I only covered what was in the pilot to not spoil it for you if you wanna watch it.
But in my opinion it's a very good show. (A least the first season,  I didn't watch the second yet)

EDIT: also how they justified that technology is kinda similar to the part I quoted 

That's really interesting. Thanks for taking the time to explain. There's several ethical issues already coming up regarding that in China, the US and the UK to name a few. I wonder what will happen.

I'm generally in favor of scientific progress so I hope people will adopt it in the end. But it is amusing to think about the drama that will ensue. Even though every scientific breakthrough worked in our benefit as in rising the quality of life. And every time there was backlash from the status-quo people who would like to keep things like they are, only to end up advocating that same technology few years later when they grew to like it (become dependent on it?).

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It has similar premise. It's set in a cyberpunk world where technology is developed that has the ability to detect people who will commit crime in the future. Of course cops who deal with the criminals on the daily basis tend to develop similar mindset so that they can do their job more efficiently hence cops are also flagged as positives.
It's not so much action show as a philosophical one, where they debate about "enforcing" utopia.
I only covered what was in the pilot to not spoil it for you if you wanna watch it.
But in my opinion it's a very good show. (A least the first season,  I didn't watch the second yet)

EDIT: also how they justified that technology is kinda similar to the part I quoted 

That's really interesting. Thanks for taking the time to explain. There's several ethical issues already coming up regarding that in China, the US and the UK to name a few. I wonder what will happen.

I'm generally in favor of scientific progress so I hope people will adopt it in the end. But it is amusing to think about the drama that will ensue. Even though every scientific breakthrough worked in our benefit as in rising the quality of life. And every time there was backlash from the status-quo people who would like to keep things like they are, only to end up advocating that same technology few years later when they grew to like it (become dependent on it?).

I like your overall outlook, and it's true to some extend... but there are plenty of technologies that have since been removed, or have fallen out of favour. Concorde and nuclear warheads to name a couple. From the mundane to the exrtreme, you'll be able to find versions or entire technologies that are gone/have been rejected.

[droid151]

That's really interesting. Thanks for taking the time to explain. There's several ethical issues already coming up regarding that in China, the US and the UK to name a few. I wonder what will happen.

I'm generally in favor of scientific progress so I hope people will adopt it in the end. But it is amusing to think about the drama that will ensue. Even though every scientific breakthrough worked in our benefit as in rising the quality of life. And every time there was backlash from the status-quo people who would like to keep things like they are, only to end up advocating that same technology few years later when they grew to like it (become dependent on it?).

I like your overall outlook, and it's true to some extend... but there are plenty of technologies that have since been removed, or have fallen out of favour. Concorde and nuclear warheads to name a couple. From the mundane to the exrtreme, you'll be able to find versions or entire technologies that are gone/have been rejected.

True that, I guess I probably generalized thing based on my perspective, and I'm far from unbiased. Although even failed experiments serve some purpose, even if it's just "NEVER DO THAT AGAIN" warning.