Tag: artificial intelligence

Homeopathy + AI = Still Nonsense
Artificial Intelligence can't make pseudoscience real

AI as a Diagnostic Tool
Using AI systems for pattern recognition in early diagnosis of dementia shows the potential of this tool.

AI Medical Tutoring Systems
Using AI powered virtual training systems can be a boon to medical education and practice.

Using AI Technology To Treat Mental Illness
AI will likely play a big role in treating mental illness in the future, but quack uses are also likely to proliferate.

Artificial Intelligence and Science-Based Medicine
AI tools in medicine are coming, and they can be powerful, but we have to manage how they are employed.

AI and Peer Review
Could Artificial Intelligence be the tool we need to fix the problems with science?

IBM’s Watson versus cancer: Hype meets reality
Five years ago, IBM announced that its supercomputer Watson would revolutionize cancer treatment by using its artificial intelligence to digest and distill the thousands of oncology studies published every year plus patient-level data and expert recommendations into treatment recommendation. Last week, a report published by STAT News shows that, years later, IBM's hubris and hype have crashed into reality.

How Do Doctors Learn to Diagnose, and Can Machines Learn to Do It Too?
Siddhartha Mukherjee weighs in on how doctors arrive at a diagnosis and how computers can assist but not replace them.
ChatGPT as a Medical Expert System
Will ChatGPT and applications like it transform medicine? If we want it to.