Real Talk Episode 26: Tech Takeovers, Data Dilemmas and the Power Problem in AI

This episode of Real Talk kicks off with two big announcements from Topcon. The health care company just snapped up Toku and launched IDHea, Inc., the Institute for Digital Health, aiming to put eye care at the heart of digital health and systemic disease prediction. How long before your eye exam says more about your body than your annual checkup?

 

Then, co-hosts Dr. Scot Morris and Dr. Rehan Ahmed unravel the buzz around Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAGs). What are they? Why are they necessary? What do you need to know about them?

 

But it’s not all rosy in AI-land. From the wild quest for data (who really owns it?) to the jaw-dropping energy appetite of large language models, we ask: could the future of medicine run out of power before it saves the world?

 

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