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Barriers to full benefit of AI for older adults

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One of the media-fueled risks today with the plethora of AI-related hype is the tendency to find and publicize deficiencies and mistakes, reinforcing the premise that it is too early for benefits across industries like senior living or home care. This cycle was not helped by the behavior of earlier AI technologies like voice assistants.

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Older Adults will benefit from AI -- sooner rather than later

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AI and older adults – powerful if enabled. There are few limits to the possible benefits of AI in its many forms, conversational, generative, Chatbots and more. Some say that we are in The Golden Age of AI. For one thing, it can already answer medical licensing exam questions correctly 90% of the time.

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Four observations from AI and the Future of Care Work research

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And in 2023, AI technology is emerging to manage and even improve care. With job turnover and shortages, care-related services now see the opportunity of AI chatbots, machine learning, and predictive analytics to mitigate some of the staff-related challenges they face.

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Beginning a Look at The Future of AI and Older Adults 2023

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DALL-E (creating images from text captions) and other generative AI has become, uh, visible, and perhaps really useful in film-making and video game development. The rise and rise of generative AI everywhere. Conversational AI already plays a growing role in care delivery. Likely -- but we need to wait and see.

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For care delivery and older adults, is the time now for AI in Healthcare?

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AI hype, fear and loathing are on the agenda. The Gartner hype cycle on AI is now published – and predicts, of course, a future plateau in generative AI. And finally, to cap things off, today the big guns of the tech industry, will spend seven hours behind closed doors discussing how to regulate AI.

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The AI opportunity – more and better services

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Wondering if there's any news about AI? MIT Technology Review packs all the AI news that’s fit to pack into an up-to-the-minute digest. Here are four categories of AI for older adults – all discussed in the upcoming report, The Future of AI and Older Adults , to be published the week of May 15: AI in home and home health care.

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In 2023, The Future of AI and Older Adults is now -- and also up next

Aging in Place Technology Watch

And it is fair to say that the applications of it is making its way into the world of older adults, this AARP article describes its uses for older adults in generating a letter to contest a medical bill. Beyond direct interaction, AI is already all around. And ChatGPT can be accessed through any mobile browser.