Brainforge Newsletter: AI in Healthcare and AI in Oreos

December 20, 2024

Author

Uttam Kumaran
December 20, 2024

What's New?

This week, we’re talking about how businesses can use customer data to make smarter choices and how AI is changing healthcare administration. As Christmas gets closer, it’s a great time to see how technology can help us wrap up the year and get ready for an even better one!

DATA
How Is Quantitative Data About a Customer Most Accurately Characterized?

Without customer data, making informed decisions becomes much harder. That’s what it’s like running a business without knowing your customer data. Numbers aren’t just numbers. They tell you stories about your customers.

Key Takeaways

  • Businesses that use customer data well are 23 times more likely to get new customers.

  • Numbers like customer lifetime value (CLV) and churn rate help predict success.

  • Tools like Google Analytics make collecting and understanding data easier.

Why You Should Read

Customer data is essential for guiding business decisions. It helps you figure out where your business is and where it should go. By tracking a few key numbers, like average order value (AOV), you can better understand your customers and make smarter decisions.

Start small with just a few metrics and see how much insight they give you. It’s the best way to learn what your customers truly need.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AI in Healthcare Administration

Have you ever thought about how hospitals keep up with so much paperwork? The answer isn’t more people. It’s artificial intelligence (AI). Right now, about 22% of healthcare spending goes to handling all the admin work, but AI is making this much easier and faster.

Key Takeaways

  • AI helps hospitals handle tasks like scheduling and billing faster, saving time and money.

  • Doctors and nurses can spend more time with patients because AI takes care of the paperwork.

  • Smart tools and automation systems are making hospitals run better.

Why You Should Read

AI is changing how hospitals work by making things faster and more organized. It lets healthcare workers focus on patients instead of getting stuck with admin tasks. Learn how tools like predictive analytics are helping hospitals save time and improve care.

Cool Links

  1. Is AI progress slowing down?

    Short answer no. Long answer maybe.

  2. AI Agents in Production

    Marketing, Back Office, Coding first. Only 15% have AI in productions - very low still

  3. Faster continuous integration builds at Canva

    Super in-depth exploration of CI at scale. We do a very small version of this at Brainforge but it’s one of the things that can save so much headache for an eng team. At scale though, theres so much to test when pushing code. Love this I’ll be reading this again as we grow.

  4. Veo 2 and Imagen 3

    Holy s*** - just take a look at a few of the video examples. I’ve never seen anything AI generated with this level of quality

  5. Oreo Owner Mondelez Taps AI to Tweak Its Classic Snacks

    At Brainforge we are fans of Oreos and AI. Love to see the stuffed treat company experimenting with using AI to generate more variations of its recipe as well as deal with various ingredient requirements optimizing for flavor and taste. Wonder if something like this can scale out to restaurants to help with the R&D process for dishes?

  6. OpenAI o3 Breakthrough High Score on ARC-AGI-Pub

    OpenAI LLM Model o3 is almost 75% better than o1…wtf we are living in the future. This is breaking as we write this so expect more next week