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I like this article, but it took decades for cars to take over: we needed to build vehicles, build roads, build up gas production and distribution... as Bill Gates wrote, one of the differences with the AI disruption is how fast it's coming, since it's almost immaterial (except data centers of course). It may be too fast for humans to adapt like they did in the previous revolutions.

I emailed Fabrice in early 2013 when I was starting wit.ai. He replied quickly with a very nice, humble, valuable response.

I've been using InstantDB for two projects for one year and it's awesome.

> Anyone trying to make a new mainstream language is completely insane, unless they're backed by a huge corporation. There are only two exceptions in the last 25 years that come close: Scala and Kotlin.

And Clojure! (also a JVM language)

They should also hold prescribers accountable. As a certified physician you hold powers and responsibilities. In many countries these prescribers would lose their licence.

This is why I read HN every day.

+1 I came here to write this comment word for word. The speed of IBM-ization of Google is astounding.

I understand your concerns. Our objectives are, on the contrary, to reduce the doctor/patient distance that was created by EHRs and all the required administrative processes. We already measure that when AI takes care of this stuff, doctors do better engage with patients.

Thanks for your comment.

We plan to offer an on-prem option eventually.

In the meantime: - we offer a GDPR compliant EU-based hosting option - we don't store anything (no audio, no transcript, no note): it's stateless and all erased at the end of each consultation - data is pseudonomyzed as it flows though our systems

Our first customers (large healthcare orgs) have been OK with this so far!

Yes absolutely.