A behind-the-scenes look at Midjourney’s medical scanner leaves many questions unanswered
Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and a Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes.
Midjourney has shown more of its futuristic medical scanner. It still hasn’t shown much proof it works.
The AI startup, best known for generating images, released a behind-the-scenes video of its dunk-tank ultrasound scanner, which it plans to deploy in spas and hopes will transform medicine with cheap, detailed, radiation-free imaging. The nearly 20-minute tour comes from tech YouTuber Marcin Plaza, who also happens to be an engineer at the company.
Plaza frankly describes the scanner as scores of ultrasound probes “hacked apart and slapped on a glorified hot tub with an elevator in it,” connected to off-the-shelf computers and Raspberry Pis. The video shows more of the hardware and the team building it, but largely glosses over the physics...
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