Matthew Fenech

Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer @una_health. Doctor obsessed with building safe and effective healthtech. Immigrant. Strong views, weakly held.

[Matthew Fenech @MattFenech83]

@jessRmorley One day we'll look back on this and wonder why we all didn't think of it earlier

[Catherine Belton @CatherineBelton]

This book was a privilege to read. Beautifully written, the bravery of @pcaruanagalizia, & his brothers, has made sure their mother's name will never be forgotten, & Malta's dark heart as a mafia state & gateway for black cash is thoroughly exposed. Thank you. A must-read.

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

One of many, many instances of “Wow competent execution on basic operations management from the 1950s feels like absolute magic. I wonder why nobody thought of that.”

[Zoe Kleinman @zsk]

The EU has finalised the AI Act after days of deliberations
- it does not include foundation models (these underpin chatbots)
- doesn't ban emotional recognition systems, despite inaccuracy issues
- focuses on high risk systems
https://t.co/JRT2xPppxw

[The author, Séamas O'Reilly @shockproofbeats]

🙃

[The author, Séamas O'Reilly @shockproofbeats]

On Musk, McGregor, and the cringing horror of being swallowed by your own own hype machine.

https://t.co/qNAlqOhof3

[Matthew Fenech @MattFenech83]

@shockproofbeats "...for men untroubled by imagination." Favourite line this year 👏👏👏

[Matthew Fenech @MattFenech83]

@SVDD76 Aces High, without a shadow of a doubt.

🎵 LIIIIIVE TO FLYYYYYYY🎵

[Matthew Fenech @MattFenech83]

I wish I had something insightful or witty to say about this, but I'm genuinely left quite speechless

(HT @GaryMarcus)

[Visar Berisha @visarASU]

Cigna has an AI-based tool on their website that they claim can evaluate the stress of a user by analyzing their speech - the “clinical grade” StressWaves test. We evaluated its external validity.

Results, link to the paper, and link to the test below…

1/5

[Matthew Fenech @MattFenech83]

@zsk Did they give any indication of their justification for this? What are they suggesting is the lawful basis for processing this data?

[Matthew Fenech @MattFenech83]

@JeniT @zsk That's appalling, Jeni. Good on your daughter for realising how wrong that is and standing up for herself.

[Justin Borg-Barthet @JustinBBarthet]

Give this a listen if you’ve got 45 mins to spare.

@pcaruanagalizia’s “A Death in Malta” is an awe-inspiring work of journalism and a deeply moving love letter to an awesome mother.

Paul provides a taster of the book in this interview with Rachel Johnson.

[Mark Tenenholtz @marktenenholtz]

So, to sum it up, MSFT now has:

• OpenAI’s CEO
• OpenAI’s President
• The guy who lead GPT-4
• The guy who made GPT-4 work
• The guy who polished models for release

💀

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

The 3 greatest tech acquisitions ever:

▫️Facebook buys Instagram for $1B
▫️Google buys YouTube for $1.7B
▫️Microsoft buys OpenAI for $0B

[Rodolfo Rosini ✨🖥️ @rodolfor]

Series A/B VCs that are doing hackathons, communities etc are doing it because their AI/Saas dealflow is not great. The incumbents are not acquiring, nobody knows how is going to play out, and it's very likely that the saas market is mostly over 1/

[Pearse Keane @pearsekeane]

On 28 February, I’m going to be part of the panel discussing ‘Beyond the Hype - AI’s Place in Healthcare’ at the #HealthTechX Summit 2024!

Register via the link below for a 30% discount on tickets using referral code: HTX24SPEAKER
👉 https://t.co/E6lwSWrsBH

[Kevin Cannon @multikev]

I think I need to go lie down.

[Jamie Susskind @jamiesusskind]

Let’s at least be realistic. The protestors aren’t calling for the hostages to be returned. They aren’t calling for a two state solution. They aren’t calling for Hamas to step aside in the name of peace. And so - whatever the placards say - they aren’t calling for peace at all.

[James Titcombe @JamesTitcombe]

Final post of the day for me.
After the Morecambe Bay Investigation (2015)- @NHSEngland commissioned a ‘National Maternity Review’ - which later became ‘Better Births’. I was asked to join the panel. It should have been a turning point for maternity safety in England…

1/3

[Jeni Tennison @JeniT]

Refreshed after the weekend? Ready to talk AI again? Let's do a deep dive on these AI Safety Institutes with a bit of UK/US compare-and-contrast.

- what kind of AI?
- what kind of testing?
- what happens when it's not safe?
- how will it work internationally?