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Singapore is turning to AI to care for its rapidly aging population. (restofworld.org)
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The country has a dire shortage of nurses, so to fill the manpower gap, it’s using AI for preventive care.

  • By 2030, one in four people in Singapore will be over the age of 65.
  • Authorities see potential in AI tools to assist in preventive illness care.
  • An AI tool under development will use voice biomarkers to detect early signs of depression in seniors.
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I know it's not actual "intelligence" - and I complain about this terminology all the time - but for the sake of conversation I use the term AI. Even though all it's really doing is remixing content it has been trained on to produce something convincingly like what a human can do, it's often useful enough to replace human output. In practice that's what's significant - good enough to replace human labor and much cheaper. I have a software dev friend who uses Claude all the time in his work. During a recent in-person D&D game he had it generate a SQLLite database and scripts to help map some things we were dealing with - without even interrupting the game. I agree that people grossly overestimate AI, especially with wild theories that it's about to take over the world or that it's already self-aware - that's just media-driven and movie-driven fantasy - but there are many routine parts of people's jobs that the stuff we currently call "AI" can handle at least as reliably as a person.