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"Could artificial intelligence make doctors obsolete?"

by Goldhahn, Jörg; Rampton, Vanessa; Spinas, Giatgen A (2018)

Abstract

Machines that can learn and correct themselves already perform better than doctors at some tasks, says Jörg Goldhahn, but Vanessa Rampton and Giatgen A Spinas maintain that machines will never be able to replicate the inter-relational quality of the therapeutic nature of the doctor-patient relationship

Keywords

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Medicine, Health Care Work, Worker Replacement

Themes

AI and Medicine

Links to Reference

Citation

Goldhahn, Jörg, et al. “Could Artificial Intelligence Make Doctors Obsolete?” BMJ, vol. 363, bmj.com, 7 Nov. 2018, p. k4563, doi:10.1136/bmj.k4563.

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