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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