Domain Specific AI in Healthcare: An Ethical Perspective

What is Artificial Intelligence? This central question has captivated the minds of specialists – mathematicians, computer scientists, cognitive scientists, and the like – and passive observers since the days of Alan Turing and John von Neumann. In this discussion I will distinguish between three types of Artificial Intelligence – human level, superhuman, and domain specific. Through this exercise I hope to shed light on the difficulties in conceptually defining the term Artificial Intelligence, as well as dispel misconceptions about the state of the art in Artificial Intelligence. To what end? I hope that this blog will spark a discussion about the ethics of today’s Artificial Intelligence, considered in light of tomorrow’s Artificial Intelligence.  We will start at the beginning, with Alan Turing’s definition of human level artificial intelligence. Turing’s famous test, popularized by the 2014 movie The Imitation Game, is a test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior comparable to, or indistinguishable from, human-level intellect. In doing so, the test pits human against machine. The test involves three players, two human and one machine, each of whom are separated from the other players. Once separated, players are tasked with holding a conversation with their counterparts. One human player, the evaluator, is tasked with determining which of the other players is a human and which is a machine. The evaluato...
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