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Re:Is artificial intelligence permanently inscrutable? by cscurmudgeon on Thursday September 01, 2016 @04:40PM (#12408705)
So how do we get the first sick volunteers for Dr. Neural Network?
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Re:Is artificial intelligence permanently inscrutable? by jerf on Thursday September 01, 2016 @06:58PM (#12409477)
AI's been in medical diagnosis for a long time and many people have been treated by it already. There was a news article a month or two ago from IBM for using Watson to do it, and it struck me as obviously a PR piece because "an AI system diagnosed a patient" is breaking news somewhere circa 1980, not now. Its scientific content was zero.
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Re:Is artificial intelligence permanently inscrutable? by DonaldFisk on Thursday September 01, 2016 @07:52PM (#12409711)
Indeed. But circa 1980 they would have been using expert systems, which typically were able to justify their reasoning.
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Re:Is artificial intelligence permanently inscrutable? by cscurmudgeon on Saturday September 03, 2016 @02:41PM (#12420461)
We are talking about neural networks not general AI.
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