The country has a dire shortage of nurses, so to fill the manpower gap, it’s using AI for preventive care.
- By 2030, one in four people in Singapore will be over the age of 65.
- Authorities see potential in AI tools to assist in preventive illness care.
- An AI tool under development will use voice biomarkers to detect early signs of depression in seniors.
“AI” doesn’t exist, the Machine Learning algorithms we see today are incapable of performing any meaningful tasks a human does.
It can’t even replace call centers. One of the horrible jobs I was hoping would finally go away forever.
It’s 99% hype currently, with the only viable applications being spam and misinformation, like the advertising you see for “AI”
I know it’s not actual “intelligence” - and I complain about this terminology all the time - but for the sake of conversation I use the term AI. Even though all it’s really doing is remixing content it has been trained on to produce something convincingly like what a human can do, it’s often useful enough to replace human output. In practice that’s what’s significant - good enough to replace human labor and much cheaper. I have a software dev friend who uses Claude all the time in his work. During a recent in-person D&D game he had it generate a SQLLite database and scripts to help map some things we were dealing with - without even interrupting the game. I agree that people grossly overestimate AI, especially with wild theories that it’s about to take over the world or that it’s already self-aware - that’s just media-driven and movie-driven fantasy - but there are many routine parts of people’s jobs that the stuff we currently call “AI” can handle at least as reliably as a person.