Reading about "the bleeding edge of the leading edge" in artificial intelligence here, I was a little bit surprised to read that Daphne Koller's work with game theory, probability, and other to help better understand the migration of breast tumors to bone, had gleaned no more attention than the promise of improved web searches as a result of her theoretical work. How can one compare the vitality of web searches to advances in our understanding of the scourge of breast cancer?
But hey... maybe that's a little near sighted of me.
"Fingertip knowledge" has changed the world. It's enabling information dissemination and rapid research that has surely improved medicine and countless other things that also impact medicine. I don't need to go into it, I'm sure. Point is, social advances and things that may appear to be business driven and without roots in moral intentions are enabling superior collaborations and putting information into the hands of the world. And the world can do something with it.
This is a point well taken for most, but do we always consider the social possibilities and implications when considering opportunities?
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