Chapter 5Intelligent Health: The Convergence of Data and AI
Vince Kuraitis and Ramanathan Srikumar
AI could be more profound than both fire and electricity … It gets to the essence of what intelligence is, what humanity is. We are developing technology which, for sure, one day will be far more capable than anything we've ever seen before.
(Sundar Pichai, CEO, Alphabet [formerly known as Google])1
42% of CEOs say AI could destroy humanity in five to ten years.
(CNN headline, 14 June 2023)2
In the grand theatre of human existence, Artificial Intelligence (AI) emerges as both the saviour and the potential destroyer, a paradoxical entity wielding the double-edged sword of promise and peril. On one hand, AI stands as the guardian angel of modern medicine, capable of diagnosing diseases with an accuracy that makes even the most seasoned doctors bow in reverence. Imagine AI algorithms in radiology, detecting the faintest whispers of cancer cells long before they roar into a deadly tempest, thereby saving countless lives. Yet, on the other hand, AI is the Pandora's Box that, once opened, could unleash calamities of biblical proportions. Picture autonomous weapons, AI-driven drones that could make human-triggered warfare look like child's play. These mechanical harbingers of doom could, in a moment of algorithmic miscalculation, plunge civilizations into an abyss of destruction from which there may be no return.
(AI chatbot ChatGPT-4).
The path of progress is littered with the ...
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