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Vala Afshar

  • Columnist, ZDNet
  • Chief Digital Evangelist, Salesforce
  • Co-Host, DisrupTV
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米成人の61％、医療情報にAIを利用--2024年の2％から激増

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By Vala Afshar
| ZDNet Japan
2024年以降、医療分野におけるAIに対する姿勢は、AIをより信頼する方向へと変化している。 2026年版の報告書における4つの主要な調査結果は次の通りである。 1. 消費者向けサービスとの格差： AIは良質なサービスがどのようなものであるかの基準を引き上げた。一方で、医療の事務的負担は患者を遠ざける要因となっている。患者の58％は、予約手続きが難しすぎることを理由に、必要な診療を遅らせたり、受けなかったりした。 2. エージェント型の価値交換： 患者は、特に時間外の事務手続きや案内といった業務について、AIの活用を広く受け入れている。67％は、通常の診療時間を待つより、24時間体制でのAI支援を好むと答えている。こうした利便性を求めて医療提供者を変更する患者もいる。 3.
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Why trust, not technology, will decide who wins the agentic AI era

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By Vala Afshar, Henry King, David Bray
| Diginomica Verified
Main content Three data points landed within weeks of each other this year, and together they tell an uncomfortable story for anyone selling AI solutions. First, American workers turned out to be the most AI-skeptical in the world, according to study by Salesforce.
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12 rules of agentic AI for successful enterprise transformation

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By Vala Afshar
| Flipboard
Artificial Intelligence 4 hours ago ‘Godmother of AI’ and tech entrepreneurs draw investors by pivoting from chatbots to ‘world models’ saying AI has to read the room, not just books Fortune - The Associated Press • 4h Computer scientist Louis Castricato was in his eighth year studying large language models — the artificial intelligence technology behind chatbots … Technology 19 hours ago The Problem With Agentic AI Isn’t the Model hackernoon.com - Paul Krause • 19h We spent three years...
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