Bill Gates and Elon Musk and others of their ilk are already predicting that very soon the AI would take over the medical profession. No, this foretelling has nothing to do with the "minus forty" furore in India, rooted, directly and/or indirectly, in the buying/selling of the PG seats in medical colleges, especially of the private variety.
M/S Musk/Gates types believe that the speed of the AI (r)evolution is such that it would soon take over the need for doctors, with the robots performing, moreover, the toughest operations without a single faux-pas!
Of course, my immediate objection to such a proposal would be the (lack of) human touch. I mean it literally, too. A doctor kindly talking to you, actually touching the aching body part, thereby reassuring you that "all is under control" would be 'out of touch' due to the utmost sophisticated A/I, I believe.
True, in the contemporary era of super specialists, doctors depend more on a battery of tests than actual examination and diagnosis of the "family doctor" variety which has almost disappeared. Often it looks as if a doctor is responding to the statistics tests generate than on actual physical examination.
My problem with 'the AI as the future medical practitioner' goes a step further n ahead. Already a majority self-medicate-ers, improve their medical awareness, what with the help of the Google Guru and an obliging chemist.
With the AI, what would happen to such hypochondriacs? That is the real question! The AI would not leave any physiological details to imagination. Equally open would be the interpretation. Thus the territory is fully accessible to the nervous hypochondriac who can imagine himself a patient, nay, the victim of every possible disease!
Actually, it is the perfect diagnosis and the precise pharmacology that make a good doctor. The AI would simplify these processes every which way. Oh, yes, one can already get detailed google search based articles that diagnose the condition and further suggest possible medication.
Hence the worry about hypochondriacs who anyway are/get upset when they read such "strictly for educational purpose" articles. I am sure that with the AI arrival in the medical field, the hypochondriacs would imagine, nay, be sure that they have got each and every symptom of most all diseases! Stress, in other words, would be the real killer in the AI regime!
Pratima@ Who would enslave whom? The AI the doctors or the doctors the AI? That is the quesion! 'AI, heal thyself' is not the probable advice either. Tough times ahead, in brief!
Quote of the day: "By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it (or through it!)," opines Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Word of the day: self-aggrandizement This term refers to the action or process of promoting oneself as being powerful or important. The AI may make this process absolutely easy, right? That is the terrible tragedy!
Let us learn grammar: Zero article or no article is used when we refer to 'Common Categories,' such as languages, sports, academic subjects, and meals. An example or two may suffice. She speaks/studies Spanish, I play football, Breakfast is ready.
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