When Gary Schneider and Lucas Atwood started a virtual personal training company in college, they soon couldn’t keep up with the volume of training requests they got. After dealing with the struggle of putting together tailored workout plans for clients, factoring in health changes and monitoring progress all at once, they turned to Atwood’s brother, who has a Ph.D. in machine learning, with a question: Could they use artificial intelligence to do that work for them?
Although unconfirmed, legend has it that the pediatric ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialty emerged because of the prevalence of tots sticking foreign bodies (FB) in those orifices. At least that’s what Sarah Gitomer, MD, was told more than once during her training in the field.