How AI healthcare can drive health improvements | Deeper Insights™

Technology often offers false promises, but this is not the case with AI and medicine. AI can help with disease prevention, detection, treatment as well as drug discovery. These techniques applied at a large scale will have a significant impact on a population’ s health. It is possible to imagine that AI assisted medicine can not only extend people’s life expectancy, but their quality of life as well. The only roadblock on the horizon is that of ethics and privacy.

Invasive AI personal physicians have the potential for abuse. For example will insurance companies demand access to the records and inferences made by these pocket doctors to deny insurance cover? And there is the human factor of accepting life changing decisions from technology. No doubt mistakes will be exaggerated as we have seen from the press around accidents involving self-driving cars. Is this imagined health utopia just around the corner? It is not, but the trajectory that current deep learning and machine learning is on, is not that far away, and the promise of automated medical agents as promised by science fiction may start to be realized during the lifetimes of the current machine learning practitioners.

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