There’s been so much crazy to pay attention to over the past few weeks that I missed this: Midjourney, the AI image-maker that you access through Discord, is making a medical imaging machine. “It starts by stepping into a shallow pool of golden light…”
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I suspect that this is, at best, an attempt to gin up investor interest, with no actual path towards the advancements in ultrasound that they promise. At worst, it’s an attempt to gin up investor interest, while selling pseudomedical scans to thousands under the cover of “wellness”, with no actual intention of achieving the advancements in ultrasound that they promise.
I’m no expert, but I found this a very compelling summary of why the claims don’t add up.
Yeah, the decision to include concept renders of their "spas" makes it hard to not be cynical about this.
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