Speakers: Glenn Bingle and Hank Wolfla.
Glenn Bingle will describe the benefits that healthcare professionals are gaining from the uses of AI. He will talk about the social concerns and fraudulent uses that have occurred and steps being taken to counter these activities. Hank Wolfla will show how you can download AI tools onto your smartphones and use these tools to improve your life.
Glenn Bingle received a BA from the University of Massachusetts and his MD and PhD from IU. He was the medical director of Genetic Service and Counseling for Community Health Network and a Clinical Professor of Medicine and Medical Molecular Genetics at the IU School of Medicine. He has been a member of Scientech since 2018. Hank Wolfla received an associate degree and bachelor degree from Purdue University in 1965 and 1968. He taught at IU-Kokomo for a while before entering the bioengineering field. He has worked for Clarian, Community Hospital, and Hancock County Hospital. He helped to development instrumentation for the insertion of cardiac pacemakers, and received a patent for his design of an ergometer (exercise device) used in cardiac rehabilitation.
Program: Live and Zoom: Artificial Intelligence: Current uses in Healthcare, Social and Fraudulent use Concerns and Practical Advice on using AI in your Personal Life
Speakers: Glenn Bingle, MD, PhD and Hank Wolfla, BS.
Introduced By: Marty Meisenheimer
Attendance: NESC: 100; Zoom: 43
Guest(s): Christine Gehlhausen, Steve Kane, and eleven more unlogged.
Scribes: Glenn Bingle and Hank Wolfla
Editor: Ed Nitka
View a Zoom recording of this talk at: https://www.scientechclubvideos.org/zoom/03172025.mp4
Artificial Intelligence in Health Care - Dr. Bingle started the meeting giving a broad overview of AI and how it led the Digital Revolution. One of the interesting things he mentioned is that AI can review a video of you playing golf, then give you instructions on how to improve, and then with a second video tell you how well you have learned the suggestions. A friend of mine uses an AI program that listens to all the conversations around him on his iPhone, and then when it hears a foreign language, it plays the conversation in the foreign language translated to English back to you in your Bluetooth headphones. Hank then played an excellent video on the history of AI.
Hank then reviewed the power needs of AI datacenters. AI now uses 3% of the USA's power and is expected to consume 8% by 2030. Major AI centers like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are planning to switch to nuclear power because the US power system cannot provide all the electricity needed. Lastly, all this power generates lots of heat, and systems like immersion cooling, phase-change cooling, liquid immersion cooling, two-phase immersion cooling, and hybrid cooling systems are used.
There are many types of AI, with generative AI capable of producing text, audio, video, and images, etc. Here are some areas that AI is now being used in: translation, code writing, creative/academic writing, genetic sequencing, composing/songwriting, dubbing, voice recognition, transcription, illustration, infographics, image editing, and 3D modeling.
AI applications in healthcare include outbreak prediction, clinical trials, electronic health records, medical robots, personalized medicine, drug discovery, medical image diagnosis, and disease diagnosis. The current survey results on AI in Medicine show that in 2023 38% of physicians used AI, and by 2024 the percentage jumped to 68%. 81% of patients are using some form of AI that includes patient portals and telehealth. 50% of the physicians say that it will improve health care outcomes and costs.
At the end of the talk, Hank Wolfla showed the audience how to install some of the most popular AI systems on their cell phones that are free. These included Perplexity (Hank’s favorite), Deep Seek, ChatGPT, Duolingo, Picsart, and Leonardo. Give them a try.
Hank Wolfla and Glenn Bingle
