Eldon Edwards

Business consultant and popular culture and music researcher. Artificial intelligence researcher

[Eldon Edwards @eldonredwards]

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[Eldon Edwards @eldonredwards]

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[DrPopCulture @DrPopCultureUSA]

A story about Rob Lowe in the Dayton Daily News on Aug. 14, 1976.

[DrPopCulture @DrPopCultureUSA]

November 11, 1957: Sun Records releases single "Great Balls of Fire" by Jerry Lee Lewis; sells a million copies in first ten days.

[DrPopCulture @DrPopCultureUSA]

November 11, 1963: Brian Epstein and Ed Sullivan sign a 3 show contract for appearances by The Beatles.

Around 73 million viewers watched their performance which, at the time, was the most-watched program in American television history.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship Super Heavy rocket booster moved to launch pad

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

We should spend more effort thinking about how to preserve craft and augment it, automation is seductive but not an inevitable path.

[Eldon Edwards @eldonredwards]

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[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

The obesity adverse outcome story.
BMI is a poor and misleading way to quantify obesity
When the CAD-obesity definition is used, we see the increased risk of all-cause mortality (top graphs) and lesser risk for preclinical obesity (lower graphs)
@Nature
https://t.co/mxx5ENViwz

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

A study on accelerated aging with chemotherapy for breast cancer
More aggressive chemo, improved breast cancer survival but a tradeoff of accelerated biological aging and increased risk of non-breast cancer mortality
https://t.co/YONcyOHJjP

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Getting it wrong for many decades.
Since the 1950's, pacemaker leads have been placed in the right ventricle. A new randomized trial challenging that dogma found marked superiority of outcomes for pacing from the left bundle branch. https://t.co/DzMUaStZjS

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

The counterexample to AI diffusion taking a long time is coding, where the complete transformation of a profession is well underway less than a year after real working coding agents. Faster than I would’ve expected given historical technological adoption rates in professions.

[DrPopCulture @DrPopCultureUSA]

Stan Lee visited BGSU in 1973.

[DrPopCulture @DrPopCultureUSA]

Sesame Street debuted on November 10, 1969.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Two of the most important opportunities for medical AI:
1. Give the gift of time to clinicians, to promote the patient-doctor relationship
2. Improve accuracy of diagnosis and treatments
Both are helped by this type of work

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

It's hard to beat @emollick for an up-to-date, independent assessment of AI, no less where we're headed. His new book is CO-EXISTENCE. We discussed that and a lot more in the new Ground Truths today

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

The impressive impact of strength training for preserving muscle mass while taking a GLP-1 drug for obesity, as seen in randomized trial @NatureMedicine

T=tirzepatide alone (Zepbound), T + REx=drug with resistance exercise
https://t.co/yLDvQ1lo5z

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Setting an unattainable objective. I wish it would come true, but curing all these diseases in the next 10 years is impossible.
And I'm very optimistic about the impact of AI for improving health.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Had early access to Gemini 4 Carbon, it is a very good model that improves on Argon. It is useful to have an AI that thinks differently than Claude/GPT & is still highly capable, but has its own strengths & weakness

One fun demo: I gave Carbon a video clip & it reproduced in 3js