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Don't you think AI will have a big influence in the future of medicine?

• godzillabrennus 10y ago
  Yes in diagnostics but for research social innovations will be far more impactful.
  • davnn 10y ago
    More researchers and less doctors sounds like a good plan to me!
• gumby 10y ago
  > Don't you think AI will have a big influence in the future of medicine? People have been hoping so since the 70s and haven't made any progress. Having worked in both fields I realize that 1. Medicine as a discipline is still poorly understood so isn't really amenable to that many automated tasks and 2. Medicine, as a social phenomenon is structured such that automation won't itself reduce costs.
  • chii 10y ago
    lately, a lot of GP seems to be relying on an expert system to help diagnose/work out treatments for things. AI, as populeraized in hollywood pop culture, seems to only include things like human intelligence, where as in reality, AI encompasses things like expert systems, which is already very common.
• brianwawok 10y ago
  Google has had a far bigger impact in medicine so far. Of course it also means I come to a doctor with 3 self diagnoses and he yells at me and tells me to stop googling.