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    "text": "This episode is provided by Thomas Allgeier and Frennis based on the most relevant LinkedIn posts on health tech in CW four and five."
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    "text": "Frennis equips product and strategy teams with market and competitive intelligence to navigate the health tech landscape."
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    "text": "It is great to be back and you know looking at the intelligence stack from calendar weeks four and five there's a definite shift in the air."
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    "start": 22.2,
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    "text": "It feels"
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    "text": "heavier doesn't it?"
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    "text": "Less about the shiny object and more about well the heavy lifting."
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    "start": 27.38,
    "end": 27.84,
    "text": "Precisely."
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  {
    "start": 28.42,
    "end": 34.5,
    "text": "If last year was the year of the demo, where everyone was showing off what was theoretically possible, the start of twenty."
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    "text": "twenty-six is really shaping up to be the era of the execution frontier."
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    "start": 38.66,
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    "text": "The industry is rolling up its sleeves."
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    "text": "It is."
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    "text": "We're seeing this clear shift from, you know, look what this AI can do to, does this actually work when things get messy in a real hospital?"
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    "start": 48.1,
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    "text": "And that's the mission for this deep dive."
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    "start": 50.2,
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    "text": "We're stripping away the hype to see what's actually sticking."
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    "start": 52.52,
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    "text": "We've got what, four main clusters to get through?"
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    "start": 55.2,
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    "text": "Yep."
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    "text": "First, we'll dissect the reality gap in AI diagnostics, specifically why these magic demos are failing in clinical practice."
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    "text": "Then we're scrubbing into the operating room."
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    "start": 64.56,
    "end": 64.72,
    "text": "Right."
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  {
    "start": 64.879,
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    "text": "Looking at why robotics is moving from a hardware conversation to a workflow conversation."
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    "start": 70.7,
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    "text": "We'll also take a hard look at the consumer side wearables, glucose monitoring, and the harsh truth that, you know... data doesn't equal behavior change."
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    "start": 79.98,
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    "text": "And finally, we have to talk about the energy vampires and strategy."
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    "start": 83.58,
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    "text": "We'll look at why pilot programs are failing and a massive regulatory blind spot that was frankly exposed this week."
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    "text": "It's a dense stack."
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    "start": 92.46,
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    "text": "So let's get right into it."
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    "text": "Theme one, AI and care delivery."
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    "text": "And right away, there is this This real tension between marketing promises and clinical reality."
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    "text": "It's the network to product gap."
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    "text": "And nothing showed this better this week than a story shared by Yongcha, the former Apple Health exec."
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    "text": "Oh,"
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    "text": "I saw this one."
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    "text": "He highlighted"
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    "text": "a really telling experiment and involved a reporter from the Washington Post and Chad GPT Health."
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    "text": "This is the one where the reporter fed ten years of his Apple Watch data into the system, right?"
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    "text": "Correct."
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    "text": "Ten years of heart rate, sleep, activity data."
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    "text": "And he asked the AI a simple question."
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    "text": "grade my cardiac health."
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    "text": "The AI came back and gave him F."
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    "text": "An F?"
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    "text": "Wow."
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    "text": "That implies imminent failure."
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    "text": "Especially since his actual human cardiologist had told him he was perfectly fine."
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    "text": "Okay, but here's"
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    "text": "the kicker."
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    "text": "Here's the kicker."
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    "text": "The part that really matters for our listeners building these tools."
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    "text": "The reporter asked the AI again."
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    "text": "Same data."
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    "text": "This time."
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    "text": "It gave him a C."
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    "text": "He asked"
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    "text": "a third time."
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    "text": "It gave him a B."
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    "text": "Hold on."
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    "text": "Same inputs."
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    "text": "Three wildly different outputs ranging from you're failing to you're doing great."
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    "text": "That's not a diagnostic tool."
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    "text": "That's that's a random number generator."
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    "text": "That is exactly Young Chae's point."
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    "text": "He argues that general purpose large language models lack what he calls native priors for trend estimation."
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    "text": "Unpack that for us native priors."
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    "text": "Think of it as context or a baseline."
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    "text": "A human doctor has a prior understanding of what's a normal fluctuation versus a dangerous anomaly for you based on your history."
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    "text": "Okay."
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    "text": "The LLM is just pattern matching against a huge generic training set."
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    "text": "Doesn't know you, it's guessing."
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    "text": "So, Charles basically saying we have a reliability crisis."
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    "text": "It's easy to make a demo that gets the right answer once for an investor deck."
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    "text": "But it's incredibly hard to build a product that's reliable enough to trust with the diagnosis."
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    "text": "And if an AI tells a healthy patient they're dying, that's not just an error, it's actual harm."
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    "text": "It is."
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    "text": "It wastes clinical resources and it erodes trust."
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    "text": "But we did see the flip side of this in the feed."
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    "text": "Taha cast out shared a scenario where AI is working."
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    "text": "This is the stroke case."
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    "text": "Yes."
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    "text": "A patient arrives in the ER, right side paralyzed."
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    "text": "The initial CT scan looks normal to the human eye."
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    "text": "But minutes later, an AI model reviewing that same scan flags a subtle vessel irregularity."
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    "start": 236.5,
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    "text": "Exactly."
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    "text": "But notice the difference."
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    "text": "In the chat GPT example, the AI was the judge giving a grade."
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    "start": 242.82,
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    "text": "Right, on its own."
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    "text": "In the stroke case, the AI was a safety net."
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    "text": "The AI didn't replace the radiologist."
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    "text": "It just caught the subtle signal that a stressed human might miss."
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    "text": "So the takeaway is AI works best as an alarm system, not the judge and jury."
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    "text": "But for that alarm system to work, the data has to be clean."
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    "text": "And Matthias Goyen raised a point that I think flies into the radar for a lot of tech teams."
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    "text": "He talked about sloppy language."
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    "text": "Right, the ethics of it."
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    "text": "Yes, it was a fascinating take."
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    "text": "We usually talk about data hygiene as a technical problem."
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    "text": "Well, AI models are trained on medical reports written by humans."
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    "text": "If doctors use ambiguous language or hedging or just sloppy descriptions in their notes, the AI learns to normalize that ambiguity."
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    "text": "It mirrors our bad habits back at"
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    "text": "And then it amplifies them."
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    "text": "Goyne's argument is that if we know these systems will be treating patients in the future, writing precise, clear medical notes today is an ethical obligation."
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    "text": "Wow."
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    "start": 303.38,
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    "text": "That's a heavy realization."
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    "text": "It means good documentation is no longer just about billing or liability."
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    "text": "It's about the future intelligence of the entire system."
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    "start": 310.66,
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    "text": "Exactly."
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    "start": 311.34,
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    "text": "And speaking of precision, I want to touch on one specific win that came up."
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    "start": 314.72,
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    "text": "Chris Scott or DeVito posted about page predict, which was just acquired by Tempus."
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    "text": "This felt like a very tangible solution to a very real problem."
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    "text": "It addresses the tissue economy in oncology."
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    "start": 325.16,
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    "text": "This is something people outside of pathology rarely think about, but it's a huge bottleneck."
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    "start": 330.58,
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    "text": "Explain that."
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    "start": 331.46,
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    "text": "Sure."
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    "text": "When you do a biopsy, you have a tiny amount of tissue."
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    "text": "Often by the time you get to the advanced tests like next generation sequencing and GS, you've literally run out of tissue."
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    "text": "So the patient misses out on crucial genetic testing because the sample was used up on more basic tests."
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    "text": "That feels like a tragedy of logistics."
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    "start": 351.66,
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    "text": "It is."
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    "text": "The standard purple and pink slides you see in every lab to identify biomarkers digitally before you even cut the tissue."
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    "text": "So it's a screening tool to save the physical sample."
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    "start": 365.02,
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    "text": "It helps clinicians decide the best sequence of tests to maximize the chance of an actionable result."
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    "text": "That is what execution looks like."
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    "text": "It's not a chatbot having a conversation."
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    "text": "It's a backend tool ensuring a cancer patient gets the right diagnosis because you didn't waste their biopsy."
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    "text": "That is a perfect transition to our second theme."
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    "text": "Let's move from the lab to the theater."
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    "text": "Digital surgery and robotics."
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    "text": "The narrative here is shifting fast."
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    "text": "Now the conversation is, how does this fit into my P&L and my workflow?"
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    "text": "Right."
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    "text": "The buzzword in the posts from Rajit Kamal and James Boyle at Medtronic wasn't autonomy."
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    "text": "And notice the pitch."
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    "text": "They aren't saying this robot replaces everything."
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    "start": 415.28,
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    "text": "You can't fit a massive monolithic system in every OR."
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    "text": "The Hugo system focuses on flexibility letting surgeons use specific tools, like the Ligashire Maryland jaw or the Rubina visioning system, only when they need them for a procedure."
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    "text": "It sounds like they're admitting the one size fits all era of robotics is over."
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    "text": "But does the modular approach actually deliver?"
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    "start": 441.44,
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    "text": "God will."
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    "text": "Dave shared some numbers from the expanded URL trial that caught my eye."
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    "start": 456.42,
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    "text": "That loops us right back to our reliability theme."
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    "text": "In the early days of robotics, there was always a fear of technical failure or latency."
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    "text": "Hitting nearly ninety-nine percent efficacy in a clinical trial builds the one thing you can't buy."
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    "start": 476.68,
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    "text": "Exactly."
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    "text": "But even with that ninety-nine percent success rate, Gavin Setzen provided a bit of a reality check in the feed."
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    "text": "The adoption lag."
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    "start": 484.0,
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    "text": "Right."
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    "start": 488.82,
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    "text": "Broad adoption is measured in years, not months."
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    "text": "Capital cycles, training."
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    "start": 493.1,
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    "text": "It all takes time."
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    "text": "They are trying to tech their way out of a bad lifestyle."
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    "text": "This has been the next big thing."
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    "text": "for what, a decade?"
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    "start": 652.68,
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    "text": "We're just optimizing the elites."
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    "text": "This was my favorite example of execution this week because of where it happened."
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    "text": "The Wood Green Community Diagnostic Center."
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    "start": 691.78,
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    "text": "That's what lets them do it, right?"
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    "start": 704.82,
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    "text": "It eliminates the need for the massive venting"
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    "start": 707.82,
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    "text": "Then, three months later, management introduces another pilot for a different tool."
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    "start": 779.7,
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    "text": "Exactly."
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    "text": "If we want AI to be standard care, it has to be regulated."
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    "text": "Innovation and safety aren't opposites."
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    "text": "We've gone from an AI giving a reporter a fake heart condition to robots hitting ninety eight percent reliability to an MRI in a shopping mall in a regulatory crisis."
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    "text": "What is the through line here?"
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    "text": "If I connect these docs, the message for CW four and five is clear."
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    "text": "We're moving from."
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    "text": "can we build it to?"
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    "text": "should we build it and does it actually"
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    "text": "That is a much harder question to answer."
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    "text": "And that leaves us with the provocative question for you, the listener, to chew on this week."
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    "text": "Indeed."
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    "text": "Look at your own organization."
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    "text": "Are you building for the demo, for the flash, the VC deck, the hype?"
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    "text": "Or are you building for the product, the reliability, the workflow, the trust?"
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    "text": "Are you feeding the energy vampire with endless pilots?"
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    "end": 1019.32,
    "text": "Or are you building the foundations for long-term execution?"
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    "text": "That is the question."
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    "text": "The execution frontier is where the winners will be determined this year."
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    "text": "Absolutely."
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    "text": "If you enjoyed this episode, new episodes drop every two weeks."
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    "text": "Thank you for listening."
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    "text": "See you then!"
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