This Is How A.I. Will Transform Medicine: The Same Way It Has Transformed Chess

By now, I’ve spent over one thousand hours playing chess at a professional level. Not to become the next world champion, but to better understand the language of A.I. or the language of anticipation. While on this journey, I also looked into the history of the board game and became convinced that it serves as the perfect metaphor for what is coming to healthcare. With their similar backgrounds and the integration of A.I. in the fields, their transformation will also bear similarities.  And by looking into the transformation that A.I. brought about to chess, we can derive insights into how this upcoming change will happen in medicine. This is what we will be looking at in this article. The shared history between medicine and chess Although from different eras, both chess and medicine originate from ancient times. In the 6th century CE for the former and as far back as 400 BCE for the latter if we consider the time of Hippocrates or the “Father of Medicine.” For centuries, both disciplines were led by intellectuals in their respective ivory tower. This tightly controlled aspect was because they both require exceptional skills in anticipation and strategic vision for successful execution. For instance, if a patient has certain symptoms, one must know what effects a treatment will have on that patient before administering it. Similarly, a professional chess player chooses a specific opening move to get a specific response from the opponent. These...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Medical Education A.I. chess Kempelen Farkas The Turk Wolfgang von Kempelen Garry Kasparov Monroe Newborn Source Type: blogs