I'm sorry, a billion full-body scans a month? For what possible reasons? Are people going to be doing these things recreationally? Cause otherwise you're talking about scanning the entire world's population, including the very young, the very old, the mobility-impaired, and those without easy access to US-based facilities (i.e.... people who are part of the small fraction of the global population who do not live in the US), twice over, every 18 months. What possible use could there be for doing this? I recognize that the presser says the scanners will be deployed "around the world," but let's be real, this will probably be 80% US.
tills13
The app known for making shit up (as in: that's it's whole shtick)... Getting into medical advice?
jofzar
This is the most "getting high on your own supply" I have ever seen. What the hell are they talking about. This is no way real and a late April fools joke right? Right?
Reubend
I don't really understand the connection; they went from image generation to medical scanning?
donohoe
Amazing. Unless you’re in a wheelchair or can’t stand.
cglan
First of all, this is incredible. Like genuinely insane. Also I bet you can do crazy things with that tranducer. If stuff like this keeps coming out, we have nowhere near enough compute
tanin
I had to check whether this was some kind of an april fool joke. It looks like a legit attempt. Wow. This is insanely innovative.
bhouston
Hmmm… such a slow rollout. In this age of AI assisted development I would expect them to move faster. I would be concerned about Chinese tech replicating this and then selling it to competing wellness spas. I guess some type of software platform would add some competitive distancing? I get the benefits of regular scans although I also know that they tend to catch a lot of otherwise benign tumors that can cause a lot of stress.
NikolaNovak
Any which way we can get to the Torrent Nexus fastest <thumbs up emoji>
danpalmer
The scans take 60 seconds, but at their stated numbers each machine would need to do a scan every 30 seconds 24/7. At this point I stopped reading because I don't have time to parse slop.
omgwtfbyobbq
So... Rampant point of care ultrasound? Sounds good to me.
JCTheDenthog
Assuming it all works 50k scanners running nonstop at 60 seconds a scan is 2.1 billion scans a month. Assuming they aren't lying/exaggerating about anything, and assuming there is no downtime/setup/etc. in between. In other words, reeks of massive bullshit.
owenpalmer
I think getting more medical data could prevent a lot of health problems, and collecting it in a relaxed and frequent environment could be interesting. This announcement is honestly just... a bit weird. They're talking about wanting to do a billion scans a month, but they haven't even mentioned what the ultrasound data can tell you about your health, nor have they showed a physical demo of the product. I think the latter is the most important part, does it actually work?
noobermin
Clearly something like this would need to be approved by the FDA, it is literally irresponsible to promote something like this as being more powerful than a MRI.
taneq
I would have expected a lot more focus on privacy from something designed to regularly and casually create detailed 3D images of humans. The word 'privacy' doesn't even appear in the text.
benatkin
Need an update from Elon about what he meant when he said "Midjourney is not mid" and what he thinks now https://x.com/minchoi/status/1766131045177409784
thorum
I wish them all the best and hope they succeed, but can’t help but suspect they’ve fallen into deep LLM psychosis. Even if you assume they can build this thing and it works as described and then get past all the regulatory hurdles, the scale of infrastructure they’re talking about is enormous.
tfirst
It's obvious why they're doing this: there's a lot of money in healthcare. What there isn't is good evidence that these full body scans actually improve outcomes.
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ricochet11
https://x.com/midjourney/status/2067422898407837797?s=20
tptacek
This is a joke, right?
verandaguy
I'm sorry, a billion full-body scans a month? For what possible reasons? Are people going to be doing these things recreationally? Cause otherwise you're talking about scanning the entire world's population, including the very young, the very old, the mobility-impaired, and those without easy access to US-based facilities (i.e.... people who are part of the small fraction of the global population who do not live in the US), twice over, every 18 months. What possible use could there be for doing this? I recognize that the presser says the scanners will be deployed "around the world," but let's be real, this will probably be 80% US.
tills13
The app known for making shit up (as in: that's it's whole shtick)... Getting into medical advice?
jofzar
This is the most "getting high on your own supply" I have ever seen. What the hell are they talking about. This is no way real and a late April fools joke right? Right?
Reubend
I don't really understand the connection; they went from image generation to medical scanning?
donohoe
Amazing. Unless you’re in a wheelchair or can’t stand.
cglan
First of all, this is incredible. Like genuinely insane. Also I bet you can do crazy things with that tranducer. If stuff like this keeps coming out, we have nowhere near enough compute
tanin
I had to check whether this was some kind of an april fool joke. It looks like a legit attempt. Wow. This is insanely innovative.
bhouston
Hmmm… such a slow rollout. In this age of AI assisted development I would expect them to move faster. I would be concerned about Chinese tech replicating this and then selling it to competing wellness spas. I guess some type of software platform would add some competitive distancing? I get the benefits of regular scans although I also know that they tend to catch a lot of otherwise benign tumors that can cause a lot of stress.
NikolaNovak
Any which way we can get to the Torrent Nexus fastest <thumbs up emoji>
danpalmer
The scans take 60 seconds, but at their stated numbers each machine would need to do a scan every 30 seconds 24/7. At this point I stopped reading because I don't have time to parse slop.
omgwtfbyobbq
So... Rampant point of care ultrasound? Sounds good to me.
JCTheDenthog
Assuming it all works 50k scanners running nonstop at 60 seconds a scan is 2.1 billion scans a month. Assuming they aren't lying/exaggerating about anything, and assuming there is no downtime/setup/etc. in between. In other words, reeks of massive bullshit.
owenpalmer
I think getting more medical data could prevent a lot of health problems, and collecting it in a relaxed and frequent environment could be interesting. This announcement is honestly just... a bit weird. They're talking about wanting to do a billion scans a month, but they haven't even mentioned what the ultrasound data can tell you about your health, nor have they showed a physical demo of the product. I think the latter is the most important part, does it actually work?
noobermin
Clearly something like this would need to be approved by the FDA, it is literally irresponsible to promote something like this as being more powerful than a MRI.
taneq
I would have expected a lot more focus on privacy from something designed to regularly and casually create detailed 3D images of humans. The word 'privacy' doesn't even appear in the text.
benatkin
Need an update from Elon about what he meant when he said "Midjourney is not mid" and what he thinks now https://x.com/minchoi/status/1766131045177409784
thorum
I wish them all the best and hope they succeed, but can’t help but suspect they’ve fallen into deep LLM psychosis. Even if you assume they can build this thing and it works as described and then get past all the regulatory hurdles, the scale of infrastructure they’re talking about is enormous.
tfirst
It's obvious why they're doing this: there's a lot of money in healthcare. What there isn't is good evidence that these full body scans actually improve outcomes.