Tag: artificial intelligence
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.
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.
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.