ODI Fridays: Can we please stop talking about AI for health?

Machine learning is revolutionising healthcare provision and delivery, from mobilising previously inaccessible data sources to generating increasingly powerful algorithmic constructs for prognostic modelling. However, it is becoming increasingly obvious that if we do not learn from the mistakes of our past, that we are doomed to repeat them; if it isn’t already too late… In this (irreverent and misleadingly titled) talk, Dr. Bilal Mateen will discuss the importance of definitions, revisit a series of hard truths, and share the story of the world’s most complex and protracted game of 20 questions, all in an effort to highlight the importance of being able to tell the difference between good (data) science and a multi-million-dollar advertising campaign. About the speaker Bilal is a clinical data science fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, a clinical-academic trainee at Kings College Hospital, and an honorary researcher at Warwick University & The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.