There's a risk of echos of Theranos here. A paper apparently describing this ultrasound approach has been uploaded to arXiv [0]. If so, the resolution demonstrated is nowhere near sufficient to detect small changes to anatomy, let alone monitor them over time. Future developments could obviously improve on that.
one of the lead paper authors (jinhua xu) works at midjourney, appears in the video, and comments specifically on how the midjourney approach is the next, significantly better-funded iteration of the paper approach
If you watch the video, the original prototype had hand built piezoelectic array, which was a complete pain and nowhere near as good as the current revision. This one uses COTS hardware, just lots (40+) of them.
There's one GIGANTIC difference between Midjourney and Theranos.
Midjourney's money is their own. They don't have to lick any boots (or worse) to put bread on their mouths. Do not ever confuse actual innovators with low tier VC scammers.
There's a risk of echos of Theranos here. A paper apparently describing this ultrasound approach has been uploaded to arXiv [0]. If so, the resolution demonstrated is nowhere near sufficient to detect small changes to anatomy, let alone monitor them over time. Future developments could obviously improve on that.
[0] “Whole Cross-Sectional Human Ultrasound Tomography” https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.00110
one of the lead paper authors (jinhua xu) works at midjourney, appears in the video, and comments specifically on how the midjourney approach is the next, significantly better-funded iteration of the paper approach
If you watch the video, the original prototype had hand built piezoelectic array, which was a complete pain and nowhere near as good as the current revision. This one uses COTS hardware, just lots (40+) of them.
true, but he doesn't say if it will meet the threshold of 'useful'
There's one GIGANTIC difference between Midjourney and Theranos.
Midjourney's money is their own. They don't have to lick any boots (or worse) to put bread on their mouths. Do not ever confuse actual innovators with low tier VC scammers.
Because of this I'm massively bullish on them.
Does this whole thing seem fishy to anyone else?
They hallucinate images for a living, of course making a medical imager is fishy (to put it extremely nicely).
More dolphin-y than fishy, it's ultrasound after all :)
The announcement video has some quality that made it hard to shake the feeling that I’m watching a black mirror episode. Or a sequel to Ex Machina.