[ExI] From Arms Race to Joint Venture

[William Flynn Wallace]

Would you settle for analyzing diagnostic imaging and making accurate
diagnoses?

I wish that AI would almost totally take over the entire field of
medicine.  Physicians have an impossible job:  keeping up with the
research.  I read things in the newspapers and ask my physician about them
and they don't know.  I have been misdiagnosed several times and very major
consequences.  I saw an xray with my kidney stone clearly on it and the
radiologist saw nothing.

bill w

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 1:36 PM Zero Powers <zero.powers at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 8:22 AM William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> You should assume that I know little about AI (as if that weren't already
>> obvious).  But it seems that it excels at things that involve tremendous
>> counting:  chess: as many moves ahead as possible, all countermoves
>> considered.  No human can do this past several moves.  Piece of cake for AI.
>>
>
> That used to be the case, but not anymore. The system that recently beat
> the best human Go player did a qualitatively different kind of thinking
> than the system used to beat Garry Kasparov at chess 20 years ago. Deep
> Blue might have been called a super counter. But AlphaGo is much more than
> that. Deep learning is the difference. It excels in things which used to be
> our forte; things like pattern recognition and differentiation. It can
> compete against itself millions of times per day, learn from mistakes and
> recursively fine tune it's tactics and strategies.
>
>>
>> Now here is what I would like to see an AI do:  feed it several studies
>> in some area like physics, or even psychology, and ask it to come up with
>> reasonable hypotheses (as judged by humans, of course) about what
>> experiments to do next.  No counting at all - just abstract reasoning.
>> When it can do this it can take over science, right?
>>
>
> Would you settle for analyzing diagnostic imaging and making accurate
> diagnoses?
>
>
> https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/10/15/googles-ai-can-spot-breast-cancer-better-humans/
>
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