I wish they would call it something other than AI. Like "Diagnostics" or if there MUST be a buzzword there, then call it "Predictive Diagnostics". Once upon a

I wish they would call it something other than AI. Like "Diagnostics" or if there MUST be a buzzword there, then call it "Predictive Diagnostics". Once upon a time, a necessary precondition to call something AI was that it should be something where there is at least the hope that it could one day generalize to pass the Turing test or something along those lines. Medical diagnostics is one of the primary applications of pattern processing, and since it's pretty damned impressive as it is, it's a bit pointless to try and make it even more impressive by suggesting that you might one day enjoy a chat with your medical diagnostic tool over breakfast, exchanging views on how the Knicks' season is shaping up... (Which both the informed readers, and the people writing this, know pretty damned well is never going to happen, and was never intended to happen).