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Paul Taylor | Spear Phishing

Jun 25, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Paul Taylor

Qilin and Synnovis, the two entities involved in the recent ransomware attack that has disabled laboratory services at London hospitals, are very different in many ways but nevertheless have a common purpose: using tech to extract money from healthcare organisations. A standard business model in IT is to offer Software as a Service or SaaS.
Paul Taylor | Who read it?

Mar 21, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Paul Taylor

Altmetric is a website that tracks mentions of academic research on social media. Last week, a paper published in Radiology Case Reports leaped to near the top of the charts.
Llamas, Pizzas, Mandolins

Mar 13, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Fei-Fei Li |Paul Taylor

Late last year, Rishi Sunak interviewed Elon Musk in front of an invited audience after the Bletchley Park summit on AI safety. He asked Musk what impact AI would have on the labour market, and tried to steer him towards a reassuring answer: AI wouldn’t take away people’s jobs but would create new ones – and politicians like Sunak could help by creating an incredible education system to allow people to take advantage of the new opportunities.
Designing for Connection Rather Than Transaction

Dec 26, 2023 | advisorpedia.com | Paul Taylor

Health is not made in health systems, it’s made in homes, in communities, in workplaces. So unless we can build horizontal bonds between communities and the kind of expertise and resource in health systems, we can’t really make change. - In a world that has become obsessed with efficiency , speed, and digitisation, a new movement is emerging that is more focused on humanity, personalisation and connection.
Alignment Problems

Nov 20, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Paul Taylor

The OpenAI website has a page explaining the company’s peculiar structure. It was founded as a non-profit by a couple of tech companies and a bunch of entrepreneurs including Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. The aim was to secure $1 billion in donations to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) for the benefit of humanity.
Weighed in the Balances

May 24, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Paul Taylor

In the summer of 2018 I had a chance encounter with an acquaintance who knew I worked in health tech. He told me that he knew Ali Parsa, the CEO of Babylon Health, the company behind the app GP at Hand. We talked about Parsa’s extraordinary career and it was clear that my friend was impressed not so much by Parsa’s achievements as by his daring. He recalled Parsa reflecting that while Babylon could become a unicorn – a billion-dollar tech startup – it might also end in complete failure.
T for Transformer

May 4, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Paul Taylor

Geoffrey Hinton’s recent departure from Google made headline news, although the headline writers had to squeeze in an explanation of who he is so that readers would understand why it mattered. The Guardian went with ‘the Godfather of AI’.