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All Data Is Good Data - by Ben Recht - arg min

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How the Midjourney ultrasound project started a war between medicine and tech.

On Friday, Midjourney, a generative AI company best known for automatically creating DeviantArt images from text prompts, announced it was pivoting to medicine. Their web copy opens with blunt honesty: “Today we’re gonna announce something a little weird and a little crazy, but also spectacular and filled with hope.” What follows is a cinematic trailer straight out of Ridley Scott’s Alien franchise, depicting Midjourney’s dream of a new whole-body ultrasound scanner that is “as powerful as MRI, and as casual as a trip to the spa.” Their first scanning spa won’t be available until 2027, so…

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