The MaML Podcast - Medicine & Machine Learning

Jakub Tolar - Medical Education and Machine Learning

Sep 10, 2021
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INSIGHT

AI: A Tool for Alleviating Suffering

  • AI is a powerful tool for alleviating human suffering, much like a stethoscope or X-ray.
  • How we use these tools, not the tools themselves, determines patient outcomes.
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Brain-Computer Comparison

  • The human brain has limitations in its processing power compared to computers.
  • AI can enhance our capabilities, similar to how microscopes extend our vision.
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Limitations of Machine Learning

  • Humans uniquely possess contrafactual reasoning ("what if" thinking).
  • Current machine learning only offers the first level of causal inference.
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