Technology

Great, now I have to start proof-reading any communications I get from the FDA to make sure it didn't hallucinate a scientific article in the citations. There's going to be so many Vegetative Microscopy proposals.

Are we great yet?

My experiences with most AI is that you really, really need to double check EVERYTHING they do.

Discouraging use of ~~artificial~~ dye is a good idea. It interferes with people's ability to make health conscious choices. Requiring labeling would be a great start.

Food dye is used to cover up a lot of food crime. Most of us wouldn't eat food that needs to be dyed to look safe to eat, if it weren't dyed, if we had a choice.

Using AI to fast track food regulations is a terrible idea.

Edit: Good point that "artificial" is part of their witch hunt wording. I only mean we could probably do with less dye use, or clear labels on what has been dyed.

is this the onion?

You really should put testing and verification in the hands of a new and unproven technology just to save a few bucks. Don't worry, the ramifications are trivial, just drug safety.

Cocaine for everyone!

Niether solution is good but I feel id rather have confidence a drug is safe, even if I had to wait, rather then un-sure but quickly. I understand terminally ill wants quick, but isn't there already a system to get unproven medication, just you accept risk?

The guy on the photo has the bottom half of a huge head and the eyes up of a small head. Totally weird.

Eventually a utopia society will just be filled with A.I. talking to other A.I. and training more A.I. to do A.I. things. No need for humans, those dont have any value.

The same AI that time after time, even when I tell it the version of the app and OS that I'm using, continues to give me commands that are incompatible with my version? If I tell it the command doesn't work it eventually loops back to its original suggestion.

Quick! Someone send tell the AI that this is what you need to sequence to make medicine! 😏

This could be a good use of AI. Since this regime is doing it, and since some of their claims are pretty unrealistic, it probably won't be. But, ML has been used for a while to help identify new drug compounds, find interactions, etc. It could be very useful in the FDA's work - I'm honestly surprised to hear that they're only just now considering using it.

The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective uses some software from MIT ASKCOS that uses neural networks to help identify reactions and retrosynthesis chains to produce chemical compounds using cheap, homemade bioreactors. Famously, they are doing this to make mifepristone available for people in areas of the US without access to abortion care.

You can check it out here. It's a good example of a very positive use-case for an AI/ML tool in medicine.

Putting periods in acronyms is some 90s shit.