Suicide is a global problem that causes 800,000 deaths per year worldwide. In the United States, suicide rates rose by 25 percent in the past two decades, and suicide now kills 45,000 Americans each year, which is more than auto accidents or homicides. Traditional methods of predicting suicide, such as questionnaires administered by doctors, are…
How will artificial intelligence (AI) change medicine? AI, powered by “big data” in health, promises to transform medical practice, but specifics remain inchoate. Reports that AI performs certain tasks at the level of specialists stoke worries that AI will “replace” physicians. These worries are probably overblown; AI is unlikely to replace many physicians in the foreseeable future. A more productive set of questions considers how…
By Cansu Canca A new worry has arisen in relation to machine learning: Will it be the end of science as we know it? The quick answer is, no, it will not. And here is why. Let’s start by recapping what the problem seems to be. Using machine learning, we are increasingly more able to…
