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by bparsons 26 days ago
Does this whole thing seem fishy to anyone else?
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More dolphin-y than fishy, it's ultrasound after all :)
The announcement video has some quality that made it hard to shake the feeling that I’m watching a black mirror episode. Or a sequel to Ex Machina.
Yes. We are right to be suspicious due to the main goal of start ups and corporations: profit for their shareholders. Theranos will always be in the back of my mind regarding healthcare technology start ups.
We have no investors! We're doing this with our own money because it seems like a good thing to do :)
They hallucinate images for a living, of course making a medical imager is fishy (to put it extremely nicely).
There's no AI in anything right now, we're just using physics based classical algorithms. It makes sense to eventually use AI but in the context of like initializing a physics solver to reduce the step-count.
silicon valley startup caricature in the style of a youtube influencer, glossy, moving picture, edgy, narcissistic, hyperunrealistic