<story><title>Ask HN: What medical datasets do you need?</title><text>We recently announced YC AI (https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;yc-ai&amp;#x2F;). This is only the first step. Our long term goal is to democratize AI development. We want to make it easier for startups to compete with the big companies.&lt;p&gt;One thing large companies have is data. We&amp;#x27;re experimenting with ways to allow startups to get similar assets, and we&amp;#x27;re starting with medical data.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re working on AI and need medical data, please help us by filling out this form: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;goo.gl&amp;#x2F;Dr9FzB.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Entangled</author><text>Dermatology, eye conditions, blood cells, tissue, viruses, urine, saliva, everything that can allow an app to give you a first diagnose before heading to the doctor.&lt;p&gt;I foresee in less than ten years we will have a doctor in our pockets. No, it won&amp;#x27;t cure us and it won&amp;#x27;t replace a doctor, but it will give us all the information we need to have a 99% certainty of our condition.&lt;p&gt;--&lt;p&gt;Second batch for animals and their conditions.&lt;p&gt;Third batch, agriculture. Take a pic of a plant and tell me all the info, fertilizers, cultivation, etc, bonus for pest id and treatment.&lt;p&gt;Pocket computers should be able to diagnose every living creature.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fratlas</author><text>While I think it&amp;#x27;ll happen eventually, medicine is not at all black and white.&lt;p&gt;Anecdotal, but I had a suspicious mole looked at, the doctor couldn&amp;#x27;t decide, got a second opinion from their colleague, he still was only 90% sure. And that&amp;#x27;s a relatively simple example. Doctors are some of the smartest&amp;#x2F;hard working people in society, and if they can still make mistakes, medical-grade AI is a long way off.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: What medical datasets do you need?</title><text>We recently announced YC AI (https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;yc-ai&amp;#x2F;). This is only the first step. Our long term goal is to democratize AI development. We want to make it easier for startups to compete with the big companies.&lt;p&gt;One thing large companies have is data. We&amp;#x27;re experimenting with ways to allow startups to get similar assets, and we&amp;#x27;re starting with medical data.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re working on AI and need medical data, please help us by filling out this form: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;goo.gl&amp;#x2F;Dr9FzB.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Entangled</author><text>Dermatology, eye conditions, blood cells, tissue, viruses, urine, saliva, everything that can allow an app to give you a first diagnose before heading to the doctor.&lt;p&gt;I foresee in less than ten years we will have a doctor in our pockets. No, it won&amp;#x27;t cure us and it won&amp;#x27;t replace a doctor, but it will give us all the information we need to have a 99% certainty of our condition.&lt;p&gt;--&lt;p&gt;Second batch for animals and their conditions.&lt;p&gt;Third batch, agriculture. Take a pic of a plant and tell me all the info, fertilizers, cultivation, etc, bonus for pest id and treatment.&lt;p&gt;Pocket computers should be able to diagnose every living creature.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>surgeryres</author><text>One potential problem with this - the question of liability, and who is responsible for diagnostic accuracy? In this case, for some &amp;quot;Lab on a Chip&amp;quot; device providing a patient directly with diagnostic information without the vetting of a human doctor, liability would sit with the company.&lt;p&gt;IBM&amp;#x27;s Watson at MD Anderson Cancer center did not work out real well for them. In other words, using AI in the realm of medical diagnostics is very difficult.</text></comment>