Observations from the video: horses never made mechanical minds, humans made them.
The highlighted capabilities of a Doctor Bot in this video are such a dumb and lack-of-evidence and out-of-touch-with-medical-realities conjured stream of thought. Why?
IBM Watson relies on input in the form of health queries from patients but the diagnoses it will make from such queries rely on the vast repository of human-described and documented basic medical and clinical research findings on the pathogenesis and pathophysiology that give rise to each disease entity; moreover, so many diseases have overlying symptoms, that’s why we have what’s called differential diagnoses, and you’ll still need the physical examination of a doctor and other health personnel and some invasive and minimally invasive and non-invasive investigations to arrive at a diagnosis, all of which are done by humans with intellectual instincts that no AI/Bots/machine will ever achieve; these diagnoses form a database that Watson draws from (and sometimes, a new disease entity emerges that has never been seen before which is why we have what we call case reports, case series, all of which are investigated via experiments for characterization). Life is complex and its future with such an infinite combination possibilities that AI (which is retrospective most of the time in its function) can’t ever be reliable, leading to increase in demand for human minds and hands; and the fact is that stuffs like IBM Watson are coming up because of shortage of humans to handle the rising volume of things like health queries across the globe, so AI is just going to be Intelligent Assistants, doing the routine stuffs so that humans can focus on the critical-thinking-demanding aspect which entails description of new disease entities and development of new management modalities for them which can now be spoon-fed into IBM Watson for wider scale tests. In addition, take for instance the human genome project (the global scientific collaboration that saw to the outlining of the entire DNA of the human body); functions of thousands of genes in the human genome are yet to be detailed, and I wonder why AI has not made any prospective attempts at doing this without any input from humans).
I did write an article on the threat posed by the emergence of drug resistant microorganisms to human health and how we can create a database of the genetic mutations that give rise to these resistance threats in each disease-causing organism, and use AI to simulate future emergence of resistance based on the UNPREDICTABLE nature of each human being in complying to drug prescriptions, their individual genetic makeup and other environmental factors that play different roles to drug resistance emergence, so as to be better prepared in terms of drug development; but the truth is that the combination possibilities during DNA/RNA replications, transcriptions and translations to proteins and their modifications in response to all these UNPREDICTABLE factors are almost infinite for most of these organisms that many Watsons may be required for a start. We do need tools like Watson for a start in this area of Molecular Medicine though, so once again AI is more of an Intelligent Assistant.
AI composing music based on what feelings or input that aren’t fed into it by humans? Human composers compose based on retrospective and prospective emotions and interactions (past experiences, dreams at night, future aspirations and ambitions and so on) which many other humans relate to. I wonder what sort of music AI will compose and how humans will relate to music composed from mechanical mixing, totally independent of human input.
Granted speed belongs to machines because of their non-biological makeup, and that will affect a lot of jobs; however, I think it’s going to spur a wave of radical changes in ways humans (including those who lost the routine jobs to machines) approach every single problem in the world–there’s going to be a new dimension of human behaviour characterized by the employment of critical thinking skills, NI, innate in only humans towards every aspect of job creation and execution in the world. Intuition and instinct lie with what I call NI, Natural Intelligence, which is exclusive to the human mind.
Conclusion
If only every human could realize the fact that the best of AI we can ever have can’t march the processing power, combination possibilities and complexities that were employed at the molecular level to ensure their existence from birth up to whatever age they are currently, then the world would start working towards harnessing the NI of humans from the lowest paid worker to the highest earner
Note: Intelligent Assistant is the way people like Tony Fadwell of Nest and Rony Abovitz of Magic Leap (the company building breakthrough mixed reality technologies) see AI
AI is here to stay and make us better and smarter, and I’m working towards using it to positively change health care in different dimensions in time to come.
