Mining Medical Records: A Case for Artificial Intelligence in Health Systems

摘要

ACCORDING TO THE Oxford Living Dictionary, artificial intelligence (AI) is "the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making and translation between languages." There is a lot of debate underway about whether AI can ever match or precisely mimic the intelligence a human being possesses. But the chances that this technology will eventually be perfected—and soon, at that—are growing by the day.