The best way to predict the future is to invent it and the future so invented is feared by the very person who invented it! The reasons given by Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of artificial intelligence, for leaving the technology giant Google appear similar. He says it is scary to think of what an unbridled AI can do to humanity. Well, I suppose it includes healthcare.
Much of the future of healthcare technology will be AI-driven and some of it is already here. AI and machine learning are deployed in several of the medical gadgets and instruments that are in use at present. Internet of Medical Things is doing wonders in its application in remote patient monitoring and wearable devices such as continuous automated blood sugar-level monitors and insulin infusion pumps, which deliver timely doses of insulin to diabetic patients and are referred to as artificial pancreas.
At the given pace of technology advancement, it is exciting and if I share Mr. Hinton’s sentiment, scary too to envision what the future holds for patients and doctors alike.
