AI In Healthcare: Revolutionizing Medicine Or Overhyped Promise?Adobe Stock AI is going to change healthcare forever. In the near future, we can look forward to revolutionary new cures and treatments, personalized medicine, and a new generation of hospitals and facilities where super-smart robots take care of everything from cleaning to brain surgery .
At least – so we’re told . Now, I’m a believer in the power of AI to change the world for the better. But I can also plainly see that there’s a lot of hype around it. Technology companies stand to make trillions from selling it, and they all want us to believe their models and algorithms are the ones that will change the world.
In a world that’s quickly becoming flooded with AI washing , it’s critical that we learn how to cut through the hype and marketing bluster. So here I’ll take a look at how well one of the most frequent claims – that it will transform the fields of healthcare, medicine and wellbeing – stands up to scrutiny. Where Are We Today?
So far, attempts to improve research and delivery of healthcare using AI have provided some encouraging success stories, as well as some clear examples of over-exaggerated expectations.
In drug and vaccine discovery, for example, it accelerated the discovery of mRNA vaccines for COVID-19. The same technology is now being used to create new protections against many other diseases . And generative AI built on similar technology to ChatGPT has also been used to create new immunotherapy drugs .
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It has been used to analyze and interpret medical scans, images, medical records and tissue samples, and has been shown to be able to spot signs of diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer’s disease . Forbes Daily: Join over 1 million Forbes Daily subscribers and get our best stories, exclusive reporting and essential […]
AI In Healthcare: Revolutionizing Medicine Or Overhyped Promise?
