BI Tech Notes

A reality check of digital health applications from Apple. I am not surprised after using / seeing weight watching, monitoring apps. My impression is that the data collected from consumer devices may be useful for trending after personalized calibration, but short on diagnoses.

"...If those employees can’t find another role within Apple over the next several weeks, they will reportedly be laid off with severance..."

Apple reportedly scales back ambitious 'HealthHabit' project for transforming healthcare Apple is reportedly scaling back one of its most ambitious healthcare projects. According to a new report from Insider, Apple is scaling back HealthHabit, an internal application that Apple employees can use to track fitness goals, talk to clinicians, and manage hypertension. Insider offers some bac...

The latest progress of code synthesis. It seems to me that the technology may not be ready for production but some interesting build blocks are there.

"Able to understand more than a dozen programming languages, Codex can interpret commands in plain English and execute them, making it possible to build a natural language interface for existing apps."

"While highly capable, a recent paper published by OpenAI reveals that Codex might have significant limitations, including biases and sample inefficiencies. The company’s researchers found that the model proposes syntactically incorrect or undefined code, invoking variables and attributes that are undefined or outside the scope of a codebase. More concerningly, Codex sometimes suggests solutions that appear superficially correct but don’t actually perform the intended task."

OpenAI launches Codex, an API for translating natural language into code OpenAI today launched Codex, an AI model available through an API that can translate natural language commands into app code.