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A few weeks ago I asked twitter to recall science fiction depictions of the future of healthcare. I did not get many responses. Most depictions meet the characteristics you describe. Few place care at the center of the experience. it is as if we will render care obsolete. But what is humanity without caring for and about each other and our planet? One obvious exception: Bones and Kirk…

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My only hope is that as technology becomes more advanced it allows us to reconnect. I think it can happen.

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Haven't tried any of the AI image-generating tools yet, so wonder; when you requested images of "a doctor in a future clinic" from DALL-E 2 , how many were female or gender-neutral? Non-white? Disabled?

Query is due to interest in learned or inherent (programming) biases in AI... I'm in Montréal so have had the pleasure to see Yoshua Bengio's presentations in person on several occasions (well prior to his Turing Prize).

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It only dropped 3; one a person of color. But I have done other similars over the past month and, to your point, they are largely white men -- not all. I have not fussed with the parameters too much. AI is a mirror of everything else, it seems. Thanks for chiming in, Sandra. Hope you enjoyed the post.

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