‘The Gospel’: how Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza.

Monday - December 4 - 2023 

In this week’s newsletter :

• ‘The Gospel’: how Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza.

• How Epic is using AI to change the way EHRs work.

• OpenAI’s GPT Store delayed to 2024 following leadership chaos.

• OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman.

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‘The Gospel’: how Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza.
Summary:
Israel’s military has made no secret of the intensity of its bombardment of the Gaza Strip. In the early days of the offensive, the head of its air force spoke of relentless, “around the clock” airstrikes. His forces, he said, were only striking military targets, but he added: “We are not being surgical.”

There has, however, been relatively little attention paid to the methods used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to select targets in Gaza, and to the role artificial intelligence has played in their bombing campaign.

As Israel resumes its offensive after a seven-day ceasefire, there are mounting concerns about the IDF’s targeting approach in a war against Hamas that, according to the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, has so far killed more than 15,000 people in the territory.

The IDF has long burnished its reputation for technical prowess and has previously made bold but unverifiable claims about harnessing new technology. After the 11-day war in Gaza in May 2021, officials said Israel had fought its “first AI war” using machine learning and advanced computing.

How Epic is using AI to change the way EHRs work.
Summary:
Sumit Rana, executive vice president of research and development at electronic health records company Epic, is working in one of the centers of artificial intelligence efforts in health IT. His days are filled with, among other things, creating ways AI can help doctors and nurses today and into the future.

Epic is using AI and ambient listening technology in an effort to improve patient-provider interactions. It’s enabling physicians to generate progress notes from a patient-provider conversation in the exam room. It’s allowing doctors to instantly create a draft response to a patient's question. It’s showing providers what’s new with a patient since they last saw the patient. And it’s working on AI assisting staff with medical coding.

AI’s GPT Store delayed to 2024 following leadership chaos.
Summary:
OpenAI’s app store for AI, the GPT Store, will not launch this year as previously announced, but rather on an unspecified date in early 2024, the company said. The delay is almost certainly due to the leadership shakeup that occurred in November, just after the initial announcement.

OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman.
Summary:
Sam Altman was reinstated soon after being fired as OpenAI CEO last month, but still stood to gain had the company continued to develop ChatGPT without him. During Altman’s tenure as CEO, OpenAI signed a letter of intent to spend $51 million on AI chips from a startup called Rain AI into which he has also invested personally.

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