Re:AI-enabled dermatology app aims to save Indians the blushes
by floatingatoll on Friday November 24, 2017 @03:27AM
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The app is in a perfect niche for preventing the human conditions that lead to the #1 stressor of potentially-sick human beings: Researching it on the internet.
The title makes sense. Anyone with facial skin conditions is extremely sensitive about them, almost universally across humanity. It's not the hook I would have chosen - "AI medical apps can use photos to tell you to stop or start worrying more accurately than your friends".
This entire category of apps is a godsend, because it lets human beings go from "I'm worried about X, but not enough to see doctor Y" to "I'm worried about X, so let's try app Z". Humans will try anything once^ if it lets them be lazy about something^^, and I can think of at least X skin things that I'll check out as soon as I can get ahold of this app.
Because that's how we are. Monkeys preening, gone deluxe form. It's not a criticism, but giving us an app that lets us preen ourselves and get reasonably sound advice back is pretty cool. Half the point of bandages is to shield our brain from being able to see a wound, so that it stops obsessing over it.
This app is certainly going to give better advice than I'd get from a random stranger, because they (probably) have scientific method. If I was going to go to a doctor for X, I would have already. And a random stranger likely has a higher error rate than their neural network.
Also, I can't begin to convey how great it is to be able to show an app my skin instead of another human being. Humans are scary. Apps aren't, for better or for worse. If the app says I need a doctor, fine, I'll go.
^ for example: video games that use electric current, dance dance revolution with fire jets, jumping from space in a spacesuit with a parachute
^^ bad examples :)
The title makes sense. Anyone with facial skin conditions is extremely sensitive about them, almost universally across humanity. It's not the hook I would have chosen - "AI medical apps can use photos to tell you to stop or start worrying more accurately than your friends".
This entire category of apps is a godsend, because it lets human beings go from "I'm worried about X, but not enough to see doctor Y" to "I'm worried about X, so let's try app Z". Humans will try anything once^ if it lets them be lazy about something^^, and I can think of at least X skin things that I'll check out as soon as I can get ahold of this app.
Because that's how we are. Monkeys preening, gone deluxe form. It's not a criticism, but giving us an app that lets us preen ourselves and get reasonably sound advice back is pretty cool. Half the point of bandages is to shield our brain from being able to see a wound, so that it stops obsessing over it.
This app is certainly going to give better advice than I'd get from a random stranger, because they (probably) have scientific method. If I was going to go to a doctor for X, I would have already. And a random stranger likely has a higher error rate than their neural network.
Also, I can't begin to convey how great it is to be able to show an app my skin instead of another human being. Humans are scary. Apps aren't, for better or for worse. If the app says I need a doctor, fine, I'll go.
^ for example: video games that use electric current, dance dance revolution with fire jets, jumping from space in a spacesuit with a parachute ^^ bad examples :)