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Artificial Physician

The Ottawa Citizen has an interesting article about NASA's new project; Artificial Physician Threatens Doctors' Careers. The plan is to spend 7 years developing an AI based system that can diagnose astronauts in space. Challenges include finding ways of probing the patient (with multiple painless sensors, presumably), learning the many volumes of medical encyclopedia (without falling asleep), and finding correlations between the two (a task which human doctors have trouble doing). Though this seems like a very ambitious project to me, there are definitely many potential applications for the solution.

This comically reminds me of one of my earliest AI projects: a LISP program that could ask you what was wrong (after saying hello). Then, no matter what you said, it would reply:

""That's interesting. Could you tell me a bit more?""

At the end, it would claim to understand, and provide a miracle solution (e.g, you should chop your left pinky off, and dance around the room for 17 minutes). Hopefully, NASA's system will be slightly better!

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Monday 20 May, 17:17
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