Artifical Intelligence Can Save The Nhs

[emmie]

millions.
Fascinating story i saw on the news this evening..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-42357257

[ToraToraTora]

it might if it existed

[emmie]

AI early diagnosis could save heart and cancer patients

[emmie]

it does exist, we aren't talking of little green men, but
powerful A1 diagnostics, which could ultimately save millions of lives.

[ToraToraTora]

serial programming with a knowledge base, AI does not exist.

[New Judge]

Some real intelligence may save it a bit quicker. Like, for example, using some noodle to reverse the contract revision that virtually doubled GP's pay and halved their work (to such an extent that many of them find their income quite sufficient if they only work part-time).

[emmie]

then what was the programme and link about.

[Mamyalynne]

Without doubt new technologies will be used more and more, especially in diagnostic tests, let's see if it gets the go ahead.

[emmie]

its going to be used come the summer. If some read the link it might explain better than i can of its uses.

[emmie]

The heart disease technology will start to be available to NHS hospitals for free this summer. as the link states.

[Mamyalynne]

//The system has been tested in clinical trials in six cardiology units. The results are due to be published this year in a peer-reviewed journal after they have been checked by experts, but Prof Paul Leeson, a cardiologist who developed the system, says that the data indicates that the system has greatly outperformed his fellow heart specialists.
If confirmed, it will be available for free to NHS hospitals across the country.//

[Old_Geezer]

Intelligence is intelligence. It is always decisions based on past knowledge.
Don't see a single aspect saving the NHS. It requires sense across the board.
All medical/technical advancements welcomed, however.

[ToraToraTora]

There has been a huge trendency of late to bandy about the term AI when actually it does not exist in the IT sense. It's powerful hardware, clever software, excellent database, powerful comparison algorithms, zero intelligence.

[Mamyalynne]

I don't mind what they call it, if scans can be read with fewer errors, it's good.

[Old_Geezer]

Much like the wetware you have T³.

[Zacs-Master]

Tora, isn’t that where the ‘artificial’ bit comes in?

[ToraToraTora]

No ZM, AI in the tech definition means intelligence demonstrated by a machine, ie reasoning beyond mere algorithmic response. What are now often called AI are in fact knowledge based systems. They get ever more sophisticated because better and better hardware for storage and retrieval and ever more powerful CPUs allow more processing to be done and thus make some algorithms possible when before the processing power did not exist to execute the Trillions of instructions. Software itself has barely moved on from the first stored program computers. Yes higher generation languages exist to enable faster programming but the object code has not really advanced beyond the 40s.

[Zacs-Master]

So where doesfuzzy logic come in?

[Zacs-Master]

Oh, and Artificial neural networks (ANNs)

[New Judge]

Wasn't he one of the Muppets?

[Zacs-Master]

No, I’m sure Tora was never in the muppets NJ. But I can understand your confusion ;-)