By Rachel Sladden , Specialty Dentist in Paediatric Dentistry, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
Artificial intelligence (AI) encompasses the theory and development of computer systems capable of intellectual tasks typically performed by humans, requiring decision-making, learning, and problem-solving. Emerging in the 1950s, this is a rapidly progressing field and the release of freely accessible AI language modelling software, such as ChatGPT, are quickly making AI a part of daily life. 1 , 2 The first healthcare application of AI incorporated a rule-based system to distinguish various infections in the 1980s. 1 AI’s ability to learn, classify and subsequently predict and detect pathology elicits a transition away from human, heuristic reasoning which is often biased and thus potentially erroneous. 3 , 4
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