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The current effort towards medical ai is heading in the wrong direction: were trying to make machines adapt to the field while we should be trying to adapt the
by rscho 6y ago
The current effort towards medical ai is heading in the wrong direction: were trying to make machines adapt to the field while we should be trying to adapt the field to make it available to machine-aided reasoning. Problem: almost nobody understands both medicine and machines well enough to bridge the abysmal communication gap separating AI/CS and medical professionals.
- vagrantJin 6y agoI think your reason is dubious at best and thoroughly impractical. Machines aid our work. We dont work to aid machines. The problems in medicine are hard because biology is hard. I dont think we understand the depth of knowledge we have yet to uncover. Not really. We intuit it but we don't know.
- rscho 6y agoThe medical field is currently supported by clinical intuition much more than by hard data, or anything included into the common definition of "science". We should absolutely work to make medical information systems available to machines. Actually, "AI" won't work well until this happens.