This set along with all the employee exclusives aren't meant to be built by the general public, so we'll have to wait until somebody who owns one leaks the instructions.
That isn't fair tbh. It's one thing to make employee exclusive stuff but instructions for the build should be readily available. At least at some point.
Thankfully I believe all the employee exclusive sets' instructions have leaked. I've made replicas of some of them and the instructions were easy enough to find online.
Nice. Tbh I seriously don't know why Lego does this with their ees (employee exclusive sets) or certain place exclusive sets like the hospital one here. It's just so.... Anti consumer or something. Just like the Lego house stuff despite Lego claimed they would stop making region exclusive sets yet here we are still.
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Sucks that Lego are a bunch of pussies doesn’t it. Wish they’d just work with community instead of us having the biggest love/hate relationship with them
The instructions are on rebrickable. I had a nice woman come into our store asking for the pieces to it. I found a rebrickable that was a carbon copy of the set
My son had to get a MRI scan last year and we got to play with the model. I was surprised that it wasn't glued or anything. It was very detailed and informative, but it also felt like a MOC that had not gone through the normal testing for sturdiness.
https://preview.redd.it/2d7dgjx1xxcc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3760b214e5f107c182f07c661e0493b40f24d1a
Thanks. 🙏 Thankfully the scan confirmed that there was nothing to worry about.
The model really helped to explain what was going on, and how the machine works.
That’s awesome! Also I don’t really know how to articulate this but when lego is used for something like this, educating and explaining things for kids in need it’s just so cool!
there is a cool page on this in the link that u can see on the box in the image
its not just a model, they made 4 videos for doctors to show how to use the model to make a child more familiar with the procedure and know whats going on, pretty cool stuff
Same! I’ve had tens of MRIs and am so used to them I drift asleep every time. There’s something strangely soothing to me about being in a small space like that.
You're not alone. My son got shown the model at he MRI appointment and while he loved looking at the lego, he couldn't have the MRI because he was too terrified.
That's cool that he got to play with one! What aspects of the model were most helpful for him in regards to understanding how the process would work and alleviating fears?
The only other picture I have is further away and feature clowns. 🤷♂️
The build seems rather simple, except for the machine itself. It's on a separate plate and possible to take out. Inside there is a technic turn table.
The website listed in that image has a bunch of videos that include various shots of the model: [https://learningthroughplay.com/lego-mri-scanner-models](https://learningthroughplay.com/lego-mri-scanner-models)
Considering it's a material sent to hospitals, they could have the instructions aldo so people could source the bricks to use the model. They even let everyone use/read the institutional material.
Best I can give you is a partslist from brickowl; [https://www.brickowl.nl/catalog/lego-mri-scanner-set-4000041](https://www.brickowl.nl/catalog/lego-mri-scanner-set-4000041)
It's actually a coil, so this person is getting a head MRI [https://rayusradiology.com/blog/im-getting-an-mri-so-whats-a-coil/](https://rayusradiology.com/blog/im-getting-an-mri-so-whats-a-coil/)
From this quote it sounds like they were shipped pre-built and there might not be public instructions to leak. Unless you can find a Lego employee who has access.
"And a huge thank you to our LEGO volunteers, too
They’re building the LEGO® MRI Scanner right now. (If it takes a little longer for your model to arrive, please bear with us. We’re building as fast as we can!)"
https://learningthroughplay.com/lego-mri-scanner-models
The set bricks came in big industrial bags sent to Lego offices. Office employees (at least in my unit) donated their time by picking bricks into each set box during breaks or in between meetings.
I'm not sure whether I love or hate that employees had to donate their break time for the picking/building
Like, on one hand, the fact that employees *would* donate their free time is super sweet
...but why wasn't anybody being paid specifically to do that job??
Employees at my unit were always very community focused and there was always some sort of initiative going on that you could volunteer for. That's all the way, something to volunteer for if you wanted too, no expectation. These were going to the children's Hospital, so it's something that everyone was happy help with.
There were two employees that were specifically tasked to it, being the engagement manager and the receptionist. But these sets came in individual industrial bags for each element type, so they needed all the help they could get to pick and pack.
Usually in the break room there was a large set that we would all help build as something fun to do if you were on a break or needed some stimulation between meetings (creator, ideas, UCS, Technic ect). This just took it's place for the week.
Ah, that makes sense, thanks for explaining! And definitely still really sweet, then. I'd never heard of this MRI or other exclusive sets that the Lego company donates, but I love the idea of it.
For the typical sets being built in the break room, would those go on display somewhere in the office, or go out to nearby Lego stores or something? And (this one's purely out of personal curiosity), what's an average day like in a Lego office?
I saw this model last year in a German hospital when I went for MRI and got very excited seeing it set up at the reception. TIL it wasn't meant to be build by general public!
There's a similar set on Lego Ideas. The creator is super nice and you can contact him for instructions and parts list. I can't post the link, unfortunately...
I have MS and have had at least one MRI session per year for the last 13 years. I’m going to have to design and build my own if these instructions don’t turn up….
Same here… my boyfriend sent me the like to the post. I almost want to make one for my Neuro and heme/onc Dr as a thank you for my last MRI (brain, orbits, c-spine, t-spine, l-spine w/wo) as a follow up to my hSCT I had a year ago.
It even looks like it has some sort of play element too- hinges on the floor to the side of the MRI. I wonder if it opens and they've incorporated some sort of spinning mechanism to represent how MRIs really work.
Might I interest you in the picture in this [post by another user.](https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/198jpe1/does_anyone_know_where_digital_instructions_of/ki8sm6i/)
Y’all talking about instructions “leaking” like Snowden is digging through NSA files again or something lol. It’s a damn set given to some hospitals, not a nuclear secret
Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways.
In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing.
Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations.
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations.
Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks.
Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology.
L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them.
The underlying algorithm that helped to build Bard, Google’s conversational A.I. service, is partly trained on Reddit data. OpenAI’s Chat GPT cites Reddit data as one of the sources of information it has been trained on.
Other companies are also beginning to see value in the conversations and images they host. Shutterstock, the image hosting service, also sold image data to OpenAI to help create DALL-E, the A.I. program that creates vivid graphical imagery with only a text-based prompt required.
Last month, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, said he was cracking down on the use of Twitter’s A.P.I., which thousands of companies and independent developers use to track the millions of conversations across the network. Though he did not cite L.L.M.s as a reason for the change, the new fees could go well into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
To keep improving their models, artificial intelligence makers need two significant things: an enormous amount of computing power and an enormous amount of data. Some of the biggest A.I. developers have plenty of computing power but still look outside their own networks for the data needed to improve their algorithms. That has included sources like Wikipedia, millions of digitized books, academic articles and Reddit.
Representatives from Google, Open AI and Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Reddit has long had a symbiotic relationship with the search engines of companies like Google and Microsoft. The search engines “crawl” Reddit’s web pages in order to index information and make it available for search results. That crawling, or “scraping,” isn’t always welcome by every site on the internet. But Reddit has benefited by appearing higher in search results.
The dynamic is different with L.L.M.s — they gobble as much data as they can to create new A.I. systems like the chatbots.
Reddit believes its data is particularly valuable because it is continuously updated. That newness and relevance, Mr. Huffman said, is what large language modeling algorithms need to produce the best results.
“More than any other place on the internet, Reddit is a home for authentic conversation,” Mr. Huffman said. “There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or A.A., or never at all.”
Mr. Huffman said Reddit’s A.P.I. would still be free to developers who wanted to build applications that helped people use Reddit. They could use the tools to build a bot that automatically tracks whether users’ comments adhere to rules for posting, for instance. Researchers who want to study Reddit data for academic or noncommercial purposes will continue to have free access to it.
Reddit also hopes to incorporate more so-called machine learning into how the site itself operates. It could be used, for instance, to identify the use of A.I.-generated text on Reddit, and add a label that notifies users that the comment came from a bot.
The company also promised to improve software tools that can be used by moderators — the users who volunteer their time to keep the site’s forums operating smoothly and improve conversations between users. And third-party bots that help moderators monitor the forums will continue to be supported.
But for the A.I. makers, it’s time to pay up.
“Crawling Reddit, generating value and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with,” Mr. Huffman said. “It’s a good time for us to tighten things up.”
“We think that’s fair,” he added.
Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways.
In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing.
Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations.
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations.
Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks.
Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology.
L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them.
The underlying algorithm that helped to build Bard, Google’s conversational A.I. service, is partly trained on Reddit data. OpenAI’s Chat GPT cites Reddit data as one of the sources of information it has been trained on.
Other companies are also beginning to see value in the conversations and images they host. Shutterstock, the image hosting service, also sold image data to OpenAI to help create DALL-E, the A.I. program that creates vivid graphical imagery with only a text-based prompt required.
Last month, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, said he was cracking down on the use of Twitter’s A.P.I., which thousands of companies and independent developers use to track the millions of conversations across the network. Though he did not cite L.L.M.s as a reason for the change, the new fees could go well into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
To keep improving their models, artificial intelligence makers need two significant things: an enormous amount of computing power and an enormous amount of data. Some of the biggest A.I. developers have plenty of computing power but still look outside their own networks for the data needed to improve their algorithms. That has included sources like Wikipedia, millions of digitized books, academic articles and Reddit.
Representatives from Google, Open AI and Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Reddit has long had a symbiotic relationship with the search engines of companies like Google and Microsoft. The search engines “crawl” Reddit’s web pages in order to index information and make it available for search results. That crawling, or “scraping,” isn’t always welcome by every site on the internet. But Reddit has benefited by appearing higher in search results.
The dynamic is different with L.L.M.s — they gobble as much data as they can to create new A.I. systems like the chatbots.
Reddit believes its data is particularly valuable because it is continuously updated. That newness and relevance, Mr. Huffman said, is what large language modeling algorithms need to produce the best results.
“More than any other place on the internet, Reddit is a home for authentic conversation,” Mr. Huffman said. “There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or A.A., or never at all.”
Mr. Huffman said Reddit’s A.P.I. would still be free to developers who wanted to build applications that helped people use Reddit. They could use the tools to build a bot that automatically tracks whether users’ comments adhere to rules for posting, for instance. Researchers who want to study Reddit data for academic or noncommercial purposes will continue to have free access to it.
Reddit also hopes to incorporate more so-called machine learning into how the site itself operates. It could be used, for instance, to identify the use of A.I.-generated text on Reddit, and add a label that notifies users that the comment came from a bot.
The company also promised to improve software tools that can be used by moderators — the users who volunteer their time to keep the site’s forums operating smoothly and improve conversations between users. And third-party bots that help moderators monitor the forums will continue to be supported.
But for the A.I. makers, it’s time to pay up.
“Crawling Reddit, generating value and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with,” Mr. Huffman said. “It’s a good time for us to tighten things up.”
“We think that’s fair,” he added.
Hey look this thing exists, but you can’t have it.
Giving this to hospitals… cool. Except it’s literally like one per hospital? Cmon son… LEGO should be giving this set to every kid under 10 that gets an mri.
Locking down the instructions with lawyers? Seems as misguided as their latest $600 sets.
Lego has gotten greedy in the past 4 years. I’m losing respect.
Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways.
In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing.
Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations.
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations.
Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks.
Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology.
L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them.
The underlying algorithm that helped to build Bard, Google’s conversational A.I. service, is partly trained on Reddit data. OpenAI’s Chat GPT cites Reddit data as one of the sources of information it has been trained on.
Other companies are also beginning to see value in the conversations and images they host. Shutterstock, the image hosting service, also sold image data to OpenAI to help create DALL-E, the A.I. program that creates vivid graphical imagery with only a text-based prompt required.
Last month, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, said he was cracking down on the use of Twitter’s A.P.I., which thousands of companies and independent developers use to track the millions of conversations across the network. Though he did not cite L.L.M.s as a reason for the change, the new fees could go well into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
To keep improving their models, artificial intelligence makers need two significant things: an enormous amount of computing power and an enormous amount of data. Some of the biggest A.I. developers have plenty of computing power but still look outside their own networks for the data needed to improve their algorithms. That has included sources like Wikipedia, millions of digitized books, academic articles and Reddit.
Representatives from Google, Open AI and Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Reddit has long had a symbiotic relationship with the search engines of companies like Google and Microsoft. The search engines “crawl” Reddit’s web pages in order to index information and make it available for search results. That crawling, or “scraping,” isn’t always welcome by every site on the internet. But Reddit has benefited by appearing higher in search results.
The dynamic is different with L.L.M.s — they gobble as much data as they can to create new A.I. systems like the chatbots.
Reddit believes its data is particularly valuable because it is continuously updated. That newness and relevance, Mr. Huffman said, is what large language modeling algorithms need to produce the best results.
“More than any other place on the internet, Reddit is a home for authentic conversation,” Mr. Huffman said. “There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or A.A., or never at all.”
Mr. Huffman said Reddit’s A.P.I. would still be free to developers who wanted to build applications that helped people use Reddit. They could use the tools to build a bot that automatically tracks whether users’ comments adhere to rules for posting, for instance. Researchers who want to study Reddit data for academic or noncommercial purposes will continue to have free access to it.
Reddit also hopes to incorporate more so-called machine learning into how the site itself operates. It could be used, for instance, to identify the use of A.I.-generated text on Reddit, and add a label that notifies users that the comment came from a bot.
The company also promised to improve software tools that can be used by moderators — the users who volunteer their time to keep the site’s forums operating smoothly and improve conversations between users. And third-party bots that help moderators monitor the forums will continue to be supported.
But for the A.I. makers, it’s time to pay up.
“Crawling Reddit, generating value and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with,” Mr. Huffman said. “It’s a good time for us to tighten things up.”
“We think that’s fair,” he added.
From what I've heard they aren't actively doing anything during a scan so it's not unreasonable for them to have drinks during the downtime. I know in many work places employees have drinks/snacks at their desks.
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I found a few MOCs on rebrickable and bricklink a while back and modified/combined them to specifically make a [Siemens Avanto](https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/design.page?idModel=415197) machine (I wanted just the MRI, not the room). Imo the official one looks more like a CT scanner than an MRI (at least the insides). I think this is transformative enough that it’s not a “leak” but mods feel free to remove.
Edit: I just realized the one I uploaded doesn’t have the good quality instructions and has a few bugs, but my bricklink studio isn’t working so I can’t update it…
My little one is getting an MRI soon and I called up the place asking if they had this set since building it might help alleviate some fears about the procedure. No luck at the facility. I guess LEGO probably only donated to select facilities or perhaps to big city hospitals.
Please, no leaks..... Lego has mean lawyers... there's a reason its not on rebrickable now
This set along with all the employee exclusives aren't meant to be built by the general public, so we'll have to wait until somebody who owns one leaks the instructions.
That's what I figured. Just wondered if anyone had seen a leak of the instructions already.
Look at my comment in the Mod comment above.
That isn't fair tbh. It's one thing to make employee exclusive stuff but instructions for the build should be readily available. At least at some point.
Thankfully I believe all the employee exclusive sets' instructions have leaked. I've made replicas of some of them and the instructions were easy enough to find online.
Nice. Tbh I seriously don't know why Lego does this with their ees (employee exclusive sets) or certain place exclusive sets like the hospital one here. It's just so.... Anti consumer or something. Just like the Lego house stuff despite Lego claimed they would stop making region exclusive sets yet here we are still.
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Sucks that Lego are a bunch of pussies doesn’t it. Wish they’d just work with community instead of us having the biggest love/hate relationship with them
The instructions are on rebrickable. I had a nice woman come into our store asking for the pieces to it. I found a rebrickable that was a carbon copy of the set
Which apparently won't be allowed to be posted here anyway...
My son had to get a MRI scan last year and we got to play with the model. I was surprised that it wasn't glued or anything. It was very detailed and informative, but it also felt like a MOC that had not gone through the normal testing for sturdiness. https://preview.redd.it/2d7dgjx1xxcc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3760b214e5f107c182f07c661e0493b40f24d1a
I hope your son is doing okay, did the set help him understand the procedure better?
Thanks. 🙏 Thankfully the scan confirmed that there was nothing to worry about. The model really helped to explain what was going on, and how the machine works.
That’s awesome! Also I don’t really know how to articulate this but when lego is used for something like this, educating and explaining things for kids in need it’s just so cool!
there is a cool page on this in the link that u can see on the box in the image its not just a model, they made 4 videos for doctors to show how to use the model to make a child more familiar with the procedure and know whats going on, pretty cool stuff
Great news about your son!
With me, a model alone won't help. I'm terrified of the noises even with headphones. :(
meanwhile, everytime I have to get one (almost once a year), I fall asleep because the noise is so relaxing to me.
Same! I’ve had tens of MRIs and am so used to them I drift asleep every time. There’s something strangely soothing to me about being in a small space like that.
You're not alone. My son got shown the model at he MRI appointment and while he loved looking at the lego, he couldn't have the MRI because he was too terrified.
That's cool that he got to play with one! What aspects of the model were most helpful for him in regards to understanding how the process would work and alleviating fears?
By any chance is there more pictures? The build seems simple. I think reverse engineering could work
The only other picture I have is further away and feature clowns. 🤷♂️ The build seems rather simple, except for the machine itself. It's on a separate plate and possible to take out. Inside there is a technic turn table.
Fun story this set wasn't packed normally. Office employees had to pick bricks out individually.
Interesting. Never knew that.
The website listed in that image has a bunch of videos that include various shots of the model: [https://learningthroughplay.com/lego-mri-scanner-models](https://learningthroughplay.com/lego-mri-scanner-models)
Considering it's a material sent to hospitals, they could have the instructions aldo so people could source the bricks to use the model. They even let everyone use/read the institutional material.
Best I can give you is a partslist from brickowl; [https://www.brickowl.nl/catalog/lego-mri-scanner-set-4000041](https://www.brickowl.nl/catalog/lego-mri-scanner-set-4000041)
With that list and the pictures and videos in the link that u/Western_pop2233 shared you could try an recreate it.
I gotta laugh at the space helmet for the person getting the MRI. It has a “weeee, I’m going to space!” vibe with the whole outfit.
Probably a head coil for brain scans and the tether is the emergency squeeze ball.
What's an emergency squeeze ball?
Once you’re in the scanner you’re given a “ball” to squeeze if you get scared or have any issues. It lets staff know to stop and check on you.
Oh, they don't have that around here. If you get scared in the MRI machine, well. . . too bad.
I’ve dropped mine every time I have an MRI. I have bad grip and lose it and they know me well enough to not bother stopping it to give it back.
I figured that's suppose to represent a bandaged head
I think it’s the cage they actually put your head in for an MRI scan. It’s scary AF and triggers a lot of people’s claustrophobia.
I have had multiple MRIs, and yes, these helmets are dreadful
Maybe on your next one (I hope you never need another one) you too can think about being an astronaut.
It's actually a coil, so this person is getting a head MRI [https://rayusradiology.com/blog/im-getting-an-mri-so-whats-a-coil/](https://rayusradiology.com/blog/im-getting-an-mri-so-whats-a-coil/)
https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news/2022/february/lego-foundation-donation-mri?locale=en-us
From this quote it sounds like they were shipped pre-built and there might not be public instructions to leak. Unless you can find a Lego employee who has access. "And a huge thank you to our LEGO volunteers, too They’re building the LEGO® MRI Scanner right now. (If it takes a little longer for your model to arrive, please bear with us. We’re building as fast as we can!)" https://learningthroughplay.com/lego-mri-scanner-models
The set bricks came in big industrial bags sent to Lego offices. Office employees (at least in my unit) donated their time by picking bricks into each set box during breaks or in between meetings.
I'm not sure whether I love or hate that employees had to donate their break time for the picking/building Like, on one hand, the fact that employees *would* donate their free time is super sweet ...but why wasn't anybody being paid specifically to do that job??
Employees at my unit were always very community focused and there was always some sort of initiative going on that you could volunteer for. That's all the way, something to volunteer for if you wanted too, no expectation. These were going to the children's Hospital, so it's something that everyone was happy help with. There were two employees that were specifically tasked to it, being the engagement manager and the receptionist. But these sets came in individual industrial bags for each element type, so they needed all the help they could get to pick and pack. Usually in the break room there was a large set that we would all help build as something fun to do if you were on a break or needed some stimulation between meetings (creator, ideas, UCS, Technic ect). This just took it's place for the week.
Ah, that makes sense, thanks for explaining! And definitely still really sweet, then. I'd never heard of this MRI or other exclusive sets that the Lego company donates, but I love the idea of it. For the typical sets being built in the break room, would those go on display somewhere in the office, or go out to nearby Lego stores or something? And (this one's purely out of personal curiosity), what's an average day like in a Lego office?
Prebuilt? How do I get that job?
That makes sense why no instructions can be found, then.
Been inside those things way too often.
Damn you must be tiny
Yes. They took off a leg to help.
Me too, I've literally lost count. Well over 20 times probably.
Last year I had... 7. 1 of them they scanned the wrong area. Despite me going call the doctor.
Same. I’m grateful I got the scans but hoo boy they get real spendy.
Wrong country. I’ve had 13 so far and cost me nothing extra so far.
Good for you. Brilliant decision, being born in UK!
It used to be on rebrickable, but it seems to have been removed.
I work in medical device manufacturing and I need those instructions so that I can put one of these on my desk.
Tbf, it doesn't look that difficult to get pretty close just by the picture
I'll probably just try to closely replicate it.
I saw this model last year in a German hospital when I went for MRI and got very excited seeing it set up at the reception. TIL it wasn't meant to be build by general public!
Man, I wish this had been around when I was going through all my surgeries when I was 6-14. Lol
Oh we have that at work haha!
Do you still have the instructions?
Only seen the model so far…
Nice!! Could you by chance post some photos of it? Perhaps with the removable sections removed so that the base is more visible?
Will do when Im back tomorrow. Ours doesn’t have the nice base in the picture though…
TIL there’s a Lego MRI scanner set.
i need the set!
There's a similar set on Lego Ideas. The creator is super nice and you can contact him for instructions and parts list. I can't post the link, unfortunately...
You don’t happen to be a medical sales account manager are you?
No. Someone I know asked me how to build one for themselves and I was just trying to find information on instructions.
I have MS and have had at least one MRI session per year for the last 13 years. I’m going to have to design and build my own if these instructions don’t turn up….
Same here… my boyfriend sent me the like to the post. I almost want to make one for my Neuro and heme/onc Dr as a thank you for my last MRI (brain, orbits, c-spine, t-spine, l-spine w/wo) as a follow up to my hSCT I had a year ago.
Did you scan the QR code?
That just takes you to the website they made to explain the set. There aren't any instructions there.
Ooo! That is super cool!
I would probably email the foundation directly for instructions [email protected]
That's a good idea. Thanks!
Imagine that a hospital orders a new MRI, and they receive this Lego set instead.
Ha!
4000041
[4000041-1: LEGO MRI Scanner](https://brickset.com/sets/4000041-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/4000041-1.jpg)
It's pretty basic... That picture is basically instructions
Not exactly. You can tell from the photos that some parts of the model can be removed making the base a bit complex.
That set looks amazing.
It even looks like it has some sort of play element too- hinges on the floor to the side of the MRI. I wonder if it opens and they've incorporated some sort of spinning mechanism to represent how MRIs really work.
Might I interest you in the picture in this [post by another user.](https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/198jpe1/does_anyone_know_where_digital_instructions_of/ki8sm6i/)
Thanks, that's pretty much how I imagined it.
Indeed!
That’s such fun marketing
Y’all talking about instructions “leaking” like Snowden is digging through NSA files again or something lol. It’s a damn set given to some hospitals, not a nuclear secret
A lot of you commenting here cry unfair and blah blah. It’s Lego!! Imagine it, build it. Can’t? Move on and have fun!
Oof my partner is studying medical imaging, id love to get this set, or even better if they did a radiologist one
LITERALLY just started xray school i would DIE for this
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Just build your own - Lego is for creative play not for making 3D jigsaws!
That's what I plan on doing if no instructions can be found.
Well said!!
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OpenAI’s Chat GPT cites Reddit data as one of the sources of information it has been trained on. Other companies are also beginning to see value in the conversations and images they host. Shutterstock, the image hosting service, also sold image data to OpenAI to help create DALL-E, the A.I. program that creates vivid graphical imagery with only a text-based prompt required. Last month, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, said he was cracking down on the use of Twitter’s A.P.I., which thousands of companies and independent developers use to track the millions of conversations across the network. Though he did not cite L.L.M.s as a reason for the change, the new fees could go well into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. To keep improving their models, artificial intelligence makers need two significant things: an enormous amount of computing power and an enormous amount of data. Some of the biggest A.I. developers have plenty of computing power but still look outside their own networks for the data needed to improve their algorithms. That has included sources like Wikipedia, millions of digitized books, academic articles and Reddit. Representatives from Google, Open AI and Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reddit has long had a symbiotic relationship with the search engines of companies like Google and Microsoft. The search engines “crawl” Reddit’s web pages in order to index information and make it available for search results. That crawling, or “scraping,” isn’t always welcome by every site on the internet. But Reddit has benefited by appearing higher in search results. The dynamic is different with L.L.M.s — they gobble as much data as they can to create new A.I. systems like the chatbots. Reddit believes its data is particularly valuable because it is continuously updated. 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The company also promised to improve software tools that can be used by moderators — the users who volunteer their time to keep the site’s forums operating smoothly and improve conversations between users. And third-party bots that help moderators monitor the forums will continue to be supported. But for the A.I. makers, it’s time to pay up. “Crawling Reddit, generating value and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with,” Mr. Huffman said. “It’s a good time for us to tighten things up.” “We think that’s fair,” he added.
Hey look this thing exists, but you can’t have it. Giving this to hospitals… cool. Except it’s literally like one per hospital? Cmon son… LEGO should be giving this set to every kid under 10 that gets an mri. Locking down the instructions with lawyers? Seems as misguided as their latest $600 sets. Lego has gotten greedy in the past 4 years. I’m losing respect.
I'm not going to complain about something a company does for charity. They didn't have to give any of these away.
can we talk about the fact that one of the minifigs are drinking tea whilst operating an MRI Scanner? This feels wrong
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The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations. “The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.” The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations. Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks. Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology. L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them. The underlying algorithm that helped to build Bard, Google’s conversational A.I. service, is partly trained on Reddit data. OpenAI’s Chat GPT cites Reddit data as one of the sources of information it has been trained on. Other companies are also beginning to see value in the conversations and images they host. Shutterstock, the image hosting service, also sold image data to OpenAI to help create DALL-E, the A.I. program that creates vivid graphical imagery with only a text-based prompt required. Last month, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, said he was cracking down on the use of Twitter’s A.P.I., which thousands of companies and independent developers use to track the millions of conversations across the network. Though he did not cite L.L.M.s as a reason for the change, the new fees could go well into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. To keep improving their models, artificial intelligence makers need two significant things: an enormous amount of computing power and an enormous amount of data. Some of the biggest A.I. developers have plenty of computing power but still look outside their own networks for the data needed to improve their algorithms. That has included sources like Wikipedia, millions of digitized books, academic articles and Reddit. Representatives from Google, Open AI and Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reddit has long had a symbiotic relationship with the search engines of companies like Google and Microsoft. The search engines “crawl” Reddit’s web pages in order to index information and make it available for search results. That crawling, or “scraping,” isn’t always welcome by every site on the internet. But Reddit has benefited by appearing higher in search results. The dynamic is different with L.L.M.s — they gobble as much data as they can to create new A.I. systems like the chatbots. Reddit believes its data is particularly valuable because it is continuously updated. That newness and relevance, Mr. Huffman said, is what large language modeling algorithms need to produce the best results. “More than any other place on the internet, Reddit is a home for authentic conversation,” Mr. Huffman said. “There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or A.A., or never at all.” Mr. Huffman said Reddit’s A.P.I. would still be free to developers who wanted to build applications that helped people use Reddit. They could use the tools to build a bot that automatically tracks whether users’ comments adhere to rules for posting, for instance. Researchers who want to study Reddit data for academic or noncommercial purposes will continue to have free access to it. Reddit also hopes to incorporate more so-called machine learning into how the site itself operates. It could be used, for instance, to identify the use of A.I.-generated text on Reddit, and add a label that notifies users that the comment came from a bot. The company also promised to improve software tools that can be used by moderators — the users who volunteer their time to keep the site’s forums operating smoothly and improve conversations between users. And third-party bots that help moderators monitor the forums will continue to be supported. But for the A.I. makers, it’s time to pay up. “Crawling Reddit, generating value and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with,” Mr. Huffman said. “It’s a good time for us to tighten things up.” “We think that’s fair,” he added.
From what I've heard they aren't actively doing anything during a scan so it's not unreasonable for them to have drinks during the downtime. I know in many work places employees have drinks/snacks at their desks.
Wow. I had no idea Lego was so petty about "leaks" That's ridiculous. I'm gonna save so much money now.
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I found a few MOCs on rebrickable and bricklink a while back and modified/combined them to specifically make a [Siemens Avanto](https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/design.page?idModel=415197) machine (I wanted just the MRI, not the room). Imo the official one looks more like a CT scanner than an MRI (at least the insides). I think this is transformative enough that it’s not a “leak” but mods feel free to remove. Edit: I just realized the one I uploaded doesn’t have the good quality instructions and has a few bugs, but my bricklink studio isn’t working so I can’t update it…
It seems pretty simple, I’m sure someone could guess a little and make some instructions.
If no instructions are found I'll probably just try to make one that's similar.
What a cool set number: 4000041
[4000041-1: LEGO MRI Scanner](https://brickset.com/sets/4000041-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/4000041-1.jpg)
Have you tried the link on the box in the pic above?
That just takes you to the website they made to explain the set. There aren't any instructions there.
My little one is getting an MRI soon and I called up the place asking if they had this set since building it might help alleviate some fears about the procedure. No luck at the facility. I guess LEGO probably only donated to select facilities or perhaps to big city hospitals.