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These projects have been launched by Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) with funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).

One of the projects would use AI to "digitally mimic" households struggling with the impact of the cost of the living crisis to understand the effects of cold homes on health, while another looks at helping reduce ambulance wait times. 

Other studies also include using hospital data to speed up patient flow through emergency departments, as well as using machine learning to predict peaks of infection with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) – a common bug that can cause serious illness in young children.

The 16 projects were selected in December 2022 and are expected to deliver findings by the end of March.

Despite the tight deadline, the findings of the projects would not come in time to help tackle the current winter crisis in the NHS, which has been facing extraordinary pressure against the backdrop...

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  • I don't think it is appropriate for the government to use AI in a lot of cases. It has already been shown to give incorrect answers. The technology could be made to work on a restricted dataset, like that held by and managed by the government  or the NHS, but the current bot is linked to the Internet. What is to stop a foreign government planting large amounts of data to generate the answer they want, e.g. CCP good, USA bad, and sent to a large number of bots to ask the right question. The algorithm will then 'learn' the incorrect answer. AI groupthink. What could possibly go wrong? ChatGPT emulating the real world.

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