Re:Medicine's Machine Learning Problem
by DebtDeflation on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:54AM
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A big part of the problem is the names we've chosen - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. A more accurate, though less sexy, name would have been "Mathematical Pattern Recognition". We can do amazing things with classifiers but we shouldn't fool ourselves into thinking it represents "intelligence".
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IMHO what's still lacking is the feedback loop.
Current systems are limited to ingesting input and providing output.
A big part of medical diagnosis, however, is to do follow-up exploration based on results of a previous examination.
This is a big part of "intelligence" that's still missing entirely from all approaches that I'm aware of, i.e. the ability to ask further questions/request data based on preliminary results from previous inputs.
Brains and intelligence are pretty much just pattern recognition as well - "neurons that fire together wire together"
Brains in isolation, yes.
But intelligence isn't just a "brain in a jar" situation. Intelligence requires interaction with the environment - you'd never be able to tell whether a Boltzmann Brain is intelligent from just observing it, for example.