Feb 12, 2020
This week's interview is with Doctor Nic Woods, Microsoft Australia's Chief Medical Officer. As we learn more about the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare, we see more and more similarities to the use of AI in education. And we have a fascinating discussion about the role of the professional alongside the AI systems - and what it means when we talk about a profession as a craft.
And in the "I didn't know that" moment, did you know that when you receive a doctorate in Sweden, you get given a sword. And yet medical doctors don't even get given their first stethoscope!
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TRANSCRIPT For this episode of The AI in Education Podcast
Series: 2
Episode: 6
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Welcome to the AI for Education podcast. I'm Ray.
And I'm Dan.
And we're together, Dan.
Yay.
So, last week we went out and find somebody smarter than us. We did
that the week before. The challenge this week was to do that
again.
And did you?
You be the judge of that, I went off and had a chat with Dr. Nick
Woods. Doctor as in the medical sense of doctor. So, he's our
healthcare lead for Microsoft Australia.
Fantastic.
And I got a chance to talk to him about how AI is being used in
healthcare. Well, thanks for joining us. Maybe it would be great if
you were to tell everybody who you are, what you are, and what you
do. Well, thanks very much, Frey. Great to be a part of your
podcast series. So, I'm uh Nick Woods, the health industry
executive and chief medical officer for Microsoft Health Team in
Australia. My role is really to support a lot of our health
customers and that's being hospital, state government, um and
thinking about how they can leverage technology to improve the
outcomes of health care, which could be around things like safe
improving safety or even improving efficiencies. I've got a
clinical background in emergency medicine and technology for a
number of years and started off life actually doing engineering. So
come full circle back into this intersection of health and
technology.
So you are the kind of doctor that when they say on a plane is
there a doctor on board you're that kind of doctor not an academic
doctor.
I am that kind of doctor and fortunately I just had a recent
example of that only three days ago.
Oh really? Wow. Gosh. Well thank you Nick for be for being the
person you are. I I discovered recently that academic doctors in
Sweden get given a sword when they graduate. So when you become an
academic doctor in Sweden, you get presented with a sword as well
as your gown. Do they is it true they give you a stethoscope as
part of becoming a doctor in the healthare system?
Uh no, there was no such gifts given to me by my university. You
were all on your own and you bought your own equipment from
everything to stethoscopes from stethoscopes to uh odoscopes to
even toes to take off blood.
Wow. Already we've started to drop into specific words in
healthcare that I don't know because I've only spent my time in the
in the education field. So I'm not sure what those other items are
that you talked about, but I think that's no difference between
your market and ours. So we deal with the education system. We've
got a lot of really specific language. I guess the healthcare
sector is exactly the same.
Absolutely. And and I think it's additive as well. There's the
health terminology and ontologies. There's the technology
terminologies and ontologies that are specific to health. So I
think it's a big field. It's but it's a very exciting field of you
know thinking about that intersection of of health and technology
all of the time. I'm kind of starting to see now the stories about
AI starting to be used in healthcare. There have been some stories
over the last couple of months about different projects going on.
So have the organizations that you work with have they started
using AI yet.
So in Australia, AI in healthcare is starting to gain momentum. I
think Australia is very well placed in many ways and we have
availability of significantly large data sets because we have
public health delivered services you know across hospitals for
example across New South Wales. So there really is opportunity to
think about how can we leverage some of that data which is
necessary to train and and retrain some of these models to improve
the uh outcomes of care.
And and one of the starting points for AI is having lots of data.
I'm guessing the healthcare system has got lots of data,
huge amounts of data, zetes, and um it's thought that that data is
increasing rapidly. So we're not seeing a decrease for example when
things like radiology studies in fact radiology studies are are
increasing every year and then there are new types of studies. What
we talk about is data del huge and how do we actually make sense of
that data. There are some areas which are still quite paper based
in hospitals. So if we look in Australia the private health care
system for example tend not to have made the investment in
electronic medical records and digital hospitals as the public
system has but over time inevitably some of that will change.
So as they start to realize the value of the data they've got one
of the things we're seeing in education is the focus on BI business
intelligence and reporting has started to change to oh we can use
AI to help us make decisions rather than just giving us reports and
information. Is that the same in healthcare?
Yeah, we have seen that with some partners and customers here in
Australia. So I'll give you an example of the work we're doing with
Victoria Ambulance where they have a number of different data
sources that are in different systems and they really wanted
someone to come and help them bring that data together but also
start to help make more intelligent decision. decisions about most
optimal routes to send an ambulance to a particular call to can we
start getting a little bit more predictive of where we might need a
number of ambulances for upcoming events. So it is moving into that
world of of predictive and we certainly have seen a number of
hospital-based health customers as well think about how they use
their data for predictive models of things like length of stay and
deterioration and and sepsis and some of the those things where we
can use that information to earlier intervene and and hopefully
make a more positive outcome on on the patient care.
So the ambulance example, I guess they're using a lot of data from
different places because I'm guessing are they thinking about
weather data? Are they using just healthcare data or that is it a a
journey across exploring other data as well?
It's it's using multiple data sources. So they have a number of man
and dispatch systems where they take calls, triage calls and and
route to various ambulance teams that are allocated around the
state. Then there are things like you know pulling in event
information as well as some other information sources from other
government agencies. You know it could be things like where there
could be a um protest going on in the city for example. So it's
really starting to think about how they need to respond to these
types of uh events as well as as you mentioned things like Bureau
of Meteorology data was the Victoria uh had the thunderstorm asthma
outbreak a few years ago. Unfortunately, eight nine people nine
people died. Uh so we're already starting to think about how how do
we get a little bit further ahead of being able to forecast out
that type of event and um then send more notifications out to
people particularly people that are likely to be impacted by
that.
So I guess in in that case it's about using AI to help you predict
what resources you need and where you need those resources and then
you know are there things you can do to minimize the impact of
activities you can see coming up in the future and that that sounds
like it's like population or state level stuff.
Yeah.
What about then the other example you talked about around clinical?
So where where are people using it in the clinical? I guess the
education parallel to that is in the classroom rather than in the
management and organization of education.
Sure. So I think you mentioned before about you know predictive
models, predictive analytics and that is true of hospital venues.
So we've had quite a few hospital services that have tried building
out models for predicting things like length of stay and also
deterioration in sepsis. There's some good work going on there in
New South Wales health. I think where we're at now, we're not quite
into how do we take that into a clinical workflow to impact the
care and then once you do that, what is the what is the result of
having done that? So I think we're probably a little bit early in
the journey in many ways. I think it's less about building the
models. I almost think building a model if you've got data is
almost commodity now. uh it's thinking about how do you bring it
back into the workflow. How do you make that sustainable and you
know whatever you do is going to require ongoing perhaps
integration from electronic medical record data decisions about how
you get that information back into clinicians. So it's natural
within their workflow rather than having a look at a a different
system to to get that.
So it's an exciting space to be. There's also some things going on
in the image arena as well. So there's a company uh called Harrison
AI that is actually based in in Sydney. They've done a lot of work
in developing a an image based model to look at the likely success
of a of an embryo in its early stages because when scientists have
a look at embryo development for fertility treatment, they can tell
by the way the cells are dividing and and the types of patterns and
and pace at which they're changing, they can make predictions about
which one's more viable. So, the Harrison AI team done a great job
with forming a joint venture and making that a commercial entity
and are doing similar just starting that journey with a lot of
radiology data as well. So there's some entities in Australia that
are are starting to do that. We've done some work having a look at
children's ears. So an ENT registar or consultant or an outreach
nurse looks at children particularly to straight Aboriginal
children that have a high rate of middle ear disease. They often
take a photograph of of that kid's ear and do a number of other
tests. And so we're looking at ways can we classify that photograph
a little bit earlier or get it assessed and triaged by an ENT
consultant so they can make a proper decision around that. Again
early days but it's great that people are thinking about how
technology can streamline some of these care processes.
And it sounds like you have a similar situation to the one we have
in education which is sometimes the algorithmic bit the bit that
helps you predict something isn't the complicated bit it's the
organizational response to it. I know that one of your colleagues
that I was talking to was talking about preventing patient
readmissions and being able to predict which patients might need to
be readmitted so that you didn't release them in the first place
which is the same for education predicting the graduation of
students and the challenge was what do we do now we know this
prediction how do we build it into the processes of the
organization
yeah and I guess the way I think about AI and machine learning
however we want to interpret AI it is just a tool There are many
other tools that we have in technology and I think there has been a
lot of focus on on AI and I think it's important to think that it's
a really exciting tool but it is just one of the tools that we have
in in healthcare and the way I tend to frame a lot of these
conversations is think about what what sort of outcome are we after
you know what sort of things can we change through technology and
then what are the tools that we need to to do that because a lot of
these things in healthcare really call on you know how do how do we
get that data out but how do we get that information back back into
those workflows. And I think that's been one of the challenges with
some of the take up is is thinking about that integration between
the systems that clinicians use. There's also a big opportunity and
conversation that I often have with health hospital health systems
etc is thinking about what's going on operationally and even
financially. It's not a conversation I get into every day but
certainly operationally you know we know that there's a lot of
inefficiencies in hospitals. So it could be something as fairly
bland is you know how do you get hospital porters to grab patients
from the ward down for their radiology exams which can often be a
fairly laborious paperbased system. Can we start thinking about
using more smart technology to make that a little bit better or
predicting intake into emergency departments during different times
of the year etc. making sure that we're forecasting staff load etc.
So I think some of those operational scenarios are just as
important and sometimes easier from a regulatory perspective to to
get start and get people working on than more clinical based ones
which have have its own set of nuances and thoughts around are they
still safe over time etc.
It's interesting you raised the regulation thing because presumably
that's about making sure that you're doing no harm as well as as
you're trying to drive an improvement in things.
Yeah and absolutely and I think most people are looking at machine
learning and particularly where it starts predicting what the
outcome of for example a um radiology exam might be or you know
what sort of disease might underpin that people really starting to
think about is this any different from looking at a medication. So
when we start moving into that world of making recommendations
based on whatever the output is of a machine learning model then we
start opening ourselves into the world of of regulation and that is
a fairly live discussion going on. There's a lot of work
internationally thinking about regulation of software as a medical
device and and what that might mean and where we where government
entities like we have the therapeutic goods administration here in
Australia where they should regulate what they should regulate on
etc.
Yeah, it's interesting because I don't think there's been that
discussion in education. We do have discussions around ethics but
maybe not around the regulation and certainly I don't think I've
seen a role for a regulator to start getting interested in that in
the same way that they get interested in the physical delivery for
example of education. So that ethics discussion presumably hits
into healthcare but it seems to sit alongside the discussion around
safety as well.
Yeah. The the regulatory focus is really based around how as a
government agency do you show and demonstrate and assure safety
around different medical procedures, devices, medications. So you
know we have a number of mechanisms in Australia that regulate
medications that regulate medical devices and And so it's in some
ways it's it's no different to that. And so over time we're
starting to see that there will be the need for things like
clinical trials to look at the outcome to prove that for example if
you go and have a an application or go into a dermatologist and
have a bunch of you know sophisticated cameras that have a look at
all your skin lesions and can make a prediction about you know
chance of whatever types of cancer or melanoma on your skin. You
know we need to know firstly that that is safe that it probably
performs at the same level or if not better than either a
consultant or a GP. And then we need to think about well how do we
make sure that that is performing at that sort of expected
threshold over time as well and that again is a bit of another
nuance and if you think about one of the other challenges for
uptake in this area because there has been a huge amount of work
already done particularly for things like radiology computer vision
output and looking at things like CT scan and and models making a a
risk prediction of a bleed in the head for example in a CT scan but
we need to make sure that those models when they're built they
don't just apply to a particular population that might have a
particular you know ethnic background they might be skewed to other
coorbidities which might alter some of the outputs and as Microsoft
we've even found some lessons learned so our health research team
has even taken a lot of publicly available X-ray of the chest data
and and built out predictive models for looking at early types
pneumonia with pretty good accuracy. But when they took that same
model and applied it to a population in India, the first set was
based on a lot of data out of the US. Then that model drifted and
the accuracy of the model was nowhere near as good as it was in the
US. So it's thinking about how do we make sure that when we apply
it to different populations, it performs in in the same way.
That's really fascinating because I know that it's well established
that facial recognition isn't as good in certain populations, but
you would think that, you know, something like a medical image
would be the same around the world. And so it's making me think
about it in education because somebody's built a model that works
in the US education system, for example, doesn't mean it's going to
work in the UK system or the Australian system or in China or
Thailand or wherever. That's that's a really fascinating insight
because a lot of the technology products we get in education tend
to come over from the States. I'm guessing there might be a similar
model in healthare
absolutely and I think at you know the population level
particularly when there's image data involved you can easily
understand even even things like looking at the back of an eye got
different pigmentation in the back of an eye and there's a a bunch
of companies now that are looking starting to look at the back of
an eye or things like diabetic retinopathy so there is probably
likely to be some variation as we apply those same models to to
different populations so it's one of those areas that even once
we've built a model and we apply it to a new population making sure
that it performs to the to the same degree or where the variance
might be or we might have to retrain to an extent and then over
time just making sure that as their population changes it might be
impacted that it performs to that degree. So thinking about that
ongoing governance it's almost a little bit the analogy I use is
when a pharma company lists a new medication here in Australia
there is this process of postmarket surveillance so some of those
sort of thoughts are going on around these models of how do we
assure for the population particularly if it's a consumer basing
tool that they're performing at the same accuracy that they they
should have been and that's an interesting diversion from the
conversation I was going to ask you about which was the challenge
we sometimes see where technology makes a lot of things possible
and there's a discussion certainly when it comes to the application
of artificial intelligence about well we know that that's possible
you can do it but should you do it I guess you've got the
frameworks already in place in healthare industry to actually have
that conversation.
Yeah, I think we've sort of had touched on this conversation
previously around ethics of AI and and health care and it is is an
important topic but I think people are probably fundamentally
thinking about you know safety and and quality in the first
instance coming back to to some of the ethical issues just how do
we en ensure that models are performing across multiple populations
and that's where I see tremendous value of AI and healthcare we
about thinking about the opportunity that I mentioned with children
with ears middle ear disease where there aren't a huge number of
ENT consultants out in the Northern Territories for example you
know that creates a great opportunity to perhaps provide a level of
expedited clinical response faster than you know we may be able to
offer today. But there is also another side which is starting to
come into people's mindsets in in the industry and uh there's some
work came out of Israel last year of actually being able to very
subtly modify radiology image data to shift the response to an AI
model. So you can think that you know there is even people are
starting to understand that although it's probably not a big safety
issue how do we protect around people potentially adversarially
attacking images or modifying images so particular machine learning
model may not work as well.
Wow that's amazing and a little bit scary to think about where
things are going to go in the future. So, a lot of the conversation
around AI has been about being able to use data to build artificial
intelligence. You know, whether that's finding images, the bank of
X-ray images or the data sources that are the national health
databases around the world from different countries and being able
to build big data sets. What is the most interesting or surprising
piece of data that you've found being useful in the healthcare
industry and an AI project.
Hard to say. I think for me this is all about impacts. And so to to
give you an example of the NHS, which is a fairly unified health
system in the UK and NHS England, each year they perform two
million mammogram as a screening test to look at chances of breast
cancer developing in in women. Each of those two million mammograms
gets reviewed by two radiologists. So that's four million
radiologists. So you start seeing the the size of an opportunity to
perhaps look at how could some of that processing be improved where
perhaps we don't need a radiologist to look at the ones that we are
99 whatever% confident are normal but we just focus our attention
on the ones that need that clinical input to say this is just
perhaps not quite normal and really uh start informing that
decision. So to me when you start looking at its scale it's not
just the scale of data it's the scale of impact.
So then one of the questions that comes out of that the mamograms
is a really interesting thing because I know I've seen research
that says that a computer can now spot uh can now read a mamogram
more effectively than the human or more accurately maybe which is
similar in education you know we know that AI/root can mark exam
papers more consistently and more accurately than humans but you
then get that debate between the human professional saying oh yes I
know a computer thinks it can do this better, but I'm I'm a person
that does all of these things. Does the same debate exist in
healthcare where you're there saying we can solve these problems
with AI and you've got human professionals saying, "Yeah, I know
you think you can solve it." That debate between human versus
machine.
It's probably an ongoing discussion. I think we've seen us sort of
coming off a little bit of a hype curve and what AI might do. Uh
I'm still very bullish about what it can do in, you know, the near
midterm. and even long-term future probably more focusing on the
mid to long from that example of radiology. I think that the
college of radiologists here in Australia and New Zealand for
example is actually looking at how do they build quality into this.
We need more radiologists. There's more modalities etc. But I think
what's excit so you know none of this is about getting rid of
clinicians or anything because there's so much need out there in
the first place and it's increasing all the time to me and most
clinicians as well. This is about improving quality and improving
efficiencies. So I think there is a bit of a shift now where people
are starting to perhaps feel well this is not a threat. This is
just perhaps going to change what I can do in a change for the
good. And I think the people that see the opportunity are going to
be the ones that naturally jump jump on it a little bit earlier.
That's interesting. I think again there's parallels in education
because if I think about for example automated marking humans
marking things doesn't deliver value back to a student. You know
simply marking a paper doesn't deliver value. Providing good
feedback delivers value. So if you can release time by being
efficient in one way in order to give a teacher more time to
provide feedback, that's going to improve the outcome, not just get
the task done. So it sounds as though there's similar
discussions.
Yeah. And and I describe medicine as a c or health as a craft. It's
it's not necessarily an art. It's and you know, there's still the
element of human care. And to me, all of this is giving time back
to clinicians to to become more human. That's that's the crux of
it. That's the genus of it. And you think about if you got a
complex patient, it's so complicated. You know, there is no going
to be no master algorithm that could say if you've got an if you've
got an elderly family member, there's just coming out of hospital
with three or four conditions. You know, where do you send them?
What sort of postf follow-up care do you have? What sort of family
support should be there? No algorithm. Why would we even attempt
that? But hopefully We can use the data to make better informed
decisions more efficiently, but still provide that human care which
is what we're good at and understanding what does that person
really want? What can their family do?
Yeah. Same parallel with education. You know, I often say the
people that believe that you can replace teachers with robots are
so wrong because it misunderstands the role of the teacher.
Yep. Abs. Absolutely. And I see it exactly the same way.
Wow. I had expected there to be so many parallels between the two
different markets. But I guess it shouldn't surprise me because
ultimately both of the professions, both teaching and healthcare,
is about a professional looking after a person and doing their best
for them.
Absolutely. And it's interesting as you're describing it because I
I absolutely get the the parallels between the the two areas.
Hey, thanks Nick. Thanks for your time. Maybe we'll catch up again
in six months or so and talk about some of the new use cases and
see where the parallels are to educ there.
Absolutely. We would love to do that. There's a lot going on. Uh I
I often present and one of the topics I present on is AI and
healthcare and I'm finding I'm having to sort of update my
presentations on a on about a three monthly basis. There's so much
going on. So look forward to that.
Great. Well, I hope to see you soon and I hope to be able to watch
one of those presentations and then we can dive down into a deeper
discussion. Thank you, Nick.
Perfect. Thanks, Ray.
Wow, that was fantastic, Ray. It was really fascinating. points
that Nick brought up there. Something jumped out to me straight
away was the parallel to outcomes.
Absolutely. The similar things that we've got in education. You
know, it's all about people outcomes and it was all about patient
outcomes.
Yeah. And also we got into a lot of conversation about
efficiencies
which is interesting because I think different countries would see
the word efficiency in a different way. But if I think about what
he was talking about in there is well how can we use the data? How
can we use AI in order to improve a service and and for that
service to be more efficient. So the example was the ambulance one
where they're using lots of data from do lots of different places
in order to be able to work out the optimal routing for ambulances
to work out where they should be. And that data included not just
the stuff in the ambulance systems about well here's the expected
load but also the the weather,
what is the traffic data
and what events are going on and putting all that in. And that to
me was a parallel to education that was really strong because sure
you can make some predictions with a small amount of data but so
many other things that you would traditionally find difficult to
pin down that would help you to understand a student better and to
predict an outcome for a student.
And when you've got a subject matter expert like Nick who was a
doctor and he has got a background in that clinical physician
element, you know, you can really see that they're obviously
applying a lot of this AI to the places that it actually needs to
be. So obviously the outcomes for them are very much patient care
and the point of patient care.
Yeah. And that was a good parallel to education as well when he was
talking about How do you give time back to clinicians? How do you
give people on the front line more time to treat patients and
better insights for that? That has a parallel to education. We've
often had that debate, haven't we, about technology of
are we saving time for teachers? Are there more things that we can
do to save time for teachers? Can we help them to be sadly I'm
going to use the efficiency word, but can we take away some of the
things that they shouldn't have to do in order that they can put
more and more of their time fixated on their students?
And I think what's fascinating for me as well taking your point on
board there was that I think when we look at health I got this
perception of AI looking at X-rays and analyzing the genome and all
this kind of sexy stuff however the actual efficiencies they really
need are below the surface and some of those headline grabbing
stories that we see which are very important obviously around the
breakthroughs that AI is making but obviously there's a lot of
stuff underneath there in the processes which you get the same in
education there's a a lot of processes that could be changed in edu
and there's a lot of processes in health because we all so simil
similar to education we all go to hospital one time or another or
take our kids there so we all have seen the inefficiencies
firsthand and I think that was something that really jumped out at
me
yeah in a way it was a little bit boring wasn't it we were kind of
focusing some of the processes and things like that but the
headlines are very different now I used to work as a columnist for
the times education supplement and that was in the day when being a
journalist meant that things appeared in print not online.
Bear in mind for our podcasters says, "You've got a pen in your
hand, right?" And I've got a digital stylus.
You're just showing off now. But in that world, it was about
communicating a story. Whereas journalism today is about getting
you to click on a story. And that is why I think that the
conversation we had with Nick is very different from the headlines
you read. Because the headlines you read are all about solving this
world problem. Click on this thing to discover, you know, the
mysteries of medicine and how robots coming to destroy your jobs
and stuff like that. Because that's what we click on to read. But
the reality dayto-day is that we're applying things in a in a way
that is about efficiencies and outcomes that are not sexy
headlines. And I think the same is true for education. We see some
of the headlines about AI and education and they're very
controversial. They're sometimes incredibly innovative, but they
might only be happening in a small area and it's about the clicks
because it's the clicks that pay journalists to write stories these
days.
Absolutely. The other the other romantic comment that he made was
something around health is craft, not an art. I thought that was
great. What are your thoughts on that?
I think that's another great parallel to education because teaching
is a craft. You know, it's a blend of a profession and technical
skills, you know, science and art and those two things together.
That's what a craft is, isn't it? It's a blend of technical and and
artistic skills and and teaching us about that. I mean, I don't
know. You you're you're the ex-teer in the room, Dan.
Yeah. Well, I think I think you're absolutely right. You know, it's
it's a creative process. It's not just you've got your a kit bag of
tools and technologies that you can use, but also it's about your
emotional intelligence. It's about your creativity when you're
planning lessons. It is a craft and and I think that was great the
way you brought that through. I think when he mentioned an art, I
think I think it can be an art as well. I think teaching can be an
art, not in terms of the subject, but I think people who do it well
can make it kind of flow. And similarly to surgeons and physicians
who kind of really can do some fantastic things, I suppose
comparing craft and art together, it's more of a parallel to I
thought he was going to say health is um a craft not a science and
that was going to worry me but yeah you know teaching is a craft
and and it is got very much parallels to what Nick was saying there
around healthcare
and linking back to last week's podcast if you remember that where
we were talking to Lee Hickin about the projects going on in
Kacadoo and he was talking about the indigenous rangers bringing
their knowledge into it. To me it's the same thing. It's not this
isn't just a robots are coming we can replace people with robots
because if something's a craft, if something's an art, if it's not
just straight ical science. You don't throw away the human in the
process. What you do is help the human. And that's probably a
growing feeling in this whole conversation around AI and education
is the worst end of the story is the robots are coming to replace
everybody. It's about that using AI and technology in order to help
people achieve more rather than replace them.
And I think the speed of that you did mention right at the end
there about there's so much going on in healthcare. He needs to do
a a PowerPoint presentation every 3 months now. And I suppose you
you do a lot of these presentations and so do I. And I think that's
definitely the case in the things that I've been doing recently
where you know about 3 years ago you could you spend a lot of time
on one presentation and edit it the audience and keep the core
messaging whereas now the core messaging is even changing very very
quickly. So you can't rely on well I'll use the presentation I did
last week. Often you have to change it you know in a lot more
detail.
Could you imagine writing a curriculum for AI and expecting that
you're going to write something now that's going to be delivered in
three months time without having to come back and re The speed of
change in this area is immense.
Absolutely. The final thing I'd like to pick up on and I'm sure you
noticed it was this talking about the ongoing governance between
the US and different jurisdictions for health care and the fact
that some of those models that are applicable in India and other
places were not applicable in Australia similar to education.
Yeah, that was interesting when he talked about that ability to
read a X-ray image and the model that they used in the US didn't
work in India which is weird because you think well humans are
humans. you know, inside just
you think we're sorry, me in my uneducated, we're all the same
inside, but it's really interesting then and and it made me think
about education because we're originally from the UK and in the UK
about one in 10 children go to private school. In Australia, nearly
half of all children go to private school. In fact, I think in CRA
in high schools it's more than half go to private school. So, if
you were building a model to predict learning outcomes in the UK
and then you brought it over here, actually, it's not going to work
because the profile of students in private schools versus
government schools is completely different. And I think we're going
to find that across all kinds of things. You don't have snow days
in Australia. You do have bushfire days. So there are all kinds of
differences between the countries and and that's why I guess let's
go back to that craft thing. You know, the craft is the
understanding of of some of those things as well. And and you know,
the same with the the Kacadoo indigenous rangers thing is sure we
can apply this worldwide model about land use, but when we get into
my territory, In my particular place, it's different. And I think
the same would apply in my particular school, in my particular
university, in my particular course, in my particular faculty. Ah,
it's different in engineering, to social sciences. It's different
in French to history.
Totally. Yeah. So, I can see your passports out to gain, Ray. That
was a fantastic interview. I think you should go off and try to
find somebody else. What do you think?
Well, let's keep seeing if we can find people smarter than us that
know more about AI.
It won't take long.
It's not going to take long. See you next week, Dan.
See you next Okay.