Artificial intelligence and the scientific method: how to cope with a complete oxymoron

Artificial intelligence can be a powerful tool for data analysis, but it can also mislead investigators due in part to a fundamental difference between classic data analysis and data analysis using AI. A more or less limited data set is analyzed in classic data analysis, and a hypothesis is generated. That hypothesis is then tested using a separate data set, and the data are examined again. The premise was either accepted or rejected with a value "p," indicating that any difference observed was due merely to chance.

Source: Clinics in Dermatology - January 9, 2024 Category: Dermatology Authors: W. Clark Lambert, Muriel W Lambert, Mohammad Hassan Emamian, Micha ł Woźniak, Andrzej Grzybowski Source Type: research