Reading in between the lines it seems most of the innovation is managing the regulations and privacy concerns of large institutions who want to use shared AI models.

> offers hospitals its experience in managing huge amounts of data in a secure and decentralized way, which is key to ensuring the privacy and security of the private patient information used to feed the algorithm. [...] uses a system to process data locally without sending it to central storage. This helps protect privacy and make better use of resources when different hospitals work together to create reliable AI-based models

Which probably makes sense why CERN developed some expertise in this area.

It feel silly to say that AI is curing cancer. Normally a phrase like that would sinal the apex of the hype cycle but I guess it actually has some meat in this situation. Using AI more like statistical inference to screen for medical conditions or predict treatment could be helpful. I remember Jeremy Howard from fast.ai did that with deep learning to detect things in medical images. Seems like a good thing for CERN to do as long as it works.

I can’t grasp what this is about. It starts saying it enables hospital to store and process their data onsite (not really an innovation in any way) but then later says the hospital computers still contact a main server for analysis. So is this just on premise data analysis (“ai”) but also cloud?

What is that overhead power and… other things… device in the image?

Seems a bit outside their wheelhouse, no?

Is this really about CERN’s skill or CERN’s access? I bet many startups could revolutionize the medical industry but lack capital or access to patient data or access to customers (gate keeping by hospitals and insurance companies and regulations and so on).

This is what AI should be doing instead of ChatGPT stuff.

Makes me think CERN has too much money