How To Spot If Your Remote Care Physician Is An A.I.?

I know, this sounds far-fetched, something like a science fiction movie dilemma. But what if it’s not? It is a fact that millions of healthcare workers are missing around the globe. Whether we miss 10 million or 18 million depends on who you ask. We also know that the number of patients in need of healthcare is only growing. And it also seems pretty obvious that with the current medical training models (and healthcare financing) we will never be able to fill this gap. Thus, expecting that A.I. will step in and take over some of the tasks from human practitioners seems only logical. And necessary. Logical, necessary, but uncanny.  We slowly grow accustomed to interacting with A.I. Whether it’s the assistant in our phones or a chatbot at a random support service introducing him/her/itself as a person but strangely phrasing the same question exactly the same way thrice. After all, ever cheerful Siri failing to understand a fairly simple request is nothing substantial. Terrell – my recent partner in solving a mysterious error of an IT issue – being a bit vacuous is just mildly entertaining or slightly annoying depending on the urgency of the problem. The only common feature of the people above is that none of them are real. They were randomly generated by clicking refresh on https://thispersondoesnotexist.com But my doctor? All the A.I. personas I regularly interact with have one thing in common. They are responsible for nothing crucial. Figur...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Bioethics Cyborgization Future of Medicine Science Fiction digital health A.I. doctor Source Type: blogs