They say we’re in the springtime of AI. Better yet, I even heard an MD say this, and I believe this is promising. There has been many feelings regarding artificial intelligence, at least one of them being the fear of robots getting smarter than us & possibly taking over mankind.
But imagine what the future might be with Artificial Intelligence helping humans in “health” care (while working through its ethics), doctors will see their healing powers more than ever.
Though artificial intelligence engineering has been around since the 80s, AI has faced some challenges and setbacks causing it to have gone through its first winter… until now, its spring again!
AI, machine learning, narrow intelligence that we are commonly using today: voice, speech and image recognition, spam filtering, automatic email suggested reply, Spotify suggesting new music based on the music you listen to, and driving recommendations based on routes already take. Amazon teaches itself products to suggest based on products already purchased or searched, alpha go playing games like chess and even more complex games like ‘GO’–the computer learns and teaches itself on the inputted data how to do the focused task at hand, better and better. Now, imagine using focused task recognition for cancers that can sometimes be missed and sadly, late diagnosed.
Using machine learning, narrow intelligence and feeding it medical cases can lend an important hand in helping doctors make early, quantifiable decisions. However, the partnership of doctors must be now, during the spring. Although, AI healthcare software can be manufactured with the brilliant software engineers, but the ingenious and masterminds of doctors are imperatively required, whether to create, design and or read the data.
This synergy of doctors and IT companies, during the spring, to create these resources will be the future in “health” care to support our demand, time constraints, and fiscal responsibilities.
