Artificial intelligence – the Stethoscope of the 21st century
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of a computer to carry out tasks associated with intelligent beings. Very simply, it means that a computer is functioning and behaving like the human brain, and now possesses intellectual processes characteristic of humans, such as the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, logic, or learn from past experiences, and self-correction. Since the development of the digital computer in the 1940s, it has been demonstrated that computers can be programmed to carry out complex tasks which require human-like cognitive ability like solving mathematical theorems or playing chess with great proficiency. Now due to continuing advances in computer processing and memory capacity, they are, to some extent, able to match human flexibility. It is logical to deduce that AI will revolutionize medicine and healthcare, but this will happen only if AI is available to the average, mainstream users – and not o...