Behind the scenes with the Midjourney scanner [video]

(youtube.com)

31 points | by Semkas 2 days ago

2 comments

  • pcrh 1 hour ago
    There's a risk of echos of Theranos here. A paper apparently describing this ultrasound approach has been uploaded to arXiv [0]. If so, the resolution demonstrated is nowhere near sufficient to detect small changes to anatomy, let alone monitor them over time. Future developments could obviously improve on that.

    [0] “Whole Cross-Sectional Human Ultrasound Tomography” https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.00110

    • warpdude 1 hour ago
      one of the lead paper authors (jinhua xu) works at midjourney, appears in the video, and comments specifically on how the midjourney approach is the next, significantly better-funded iteration of the paper approach
      • itake 1 hour ago
        true, but he doesn't say if it will meet the threshold of 'useful'
  • bparsons 1 hour ago
    Does this whole thing seem fishy to anyone else?
    • _joel 0 minutes ago
      More dolphin-y than fishy, it's ultrasound after all :)
    • ajrouvoet 33 minutes ago
      The announcement video has some quality that made it hard to shake the feeling that I’m watching a black mirror episode. Or a sequel to Ex Machina.