{"id":79686,"date":"2018-06-17T20:22:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T03:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/the-big-picture-were-getting-closer-to-ai-doctors"},"modified":"2018-06-21T13:03:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T20:03:52","slug":"the-big-picture-were-getting-closer-to-ai-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/the-big-picture-were-getting-closer-to-ai-doctors","title":{"rendered":"The big picture: We\u2019re getting closer to AI doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-big-picture-were-getting-closer-to-ai-doctors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not unrealistic to think that 80% of what doctors do will be replaced by algorithms and artificial intelligence. The idea, evangelized by venture capitalist <a href=\"http:\/\/link.axios.com\/click\/13588151.22\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cua2hvc2xhdmVudHVyZXMuY29tL3dwLWNvbnRlbnQvdXBsb2Fkcy8yMF9wZXJjZW50X2RvY3Rvci5wZGY_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPXNlbmR0b19uZXdzbGV0dGVydGVzdCZzdHJlYW09dG9w\/587e487172fbf2056f8b4e5eB977567a8\" class=\"\">Vinod Khosla<\/a> two years ago, is that machines can more accurately diagnosis us \u2014 and that will reduce deadly medical errors and free doctors up to do other things.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The bottom line: <\/strong>We\u2019re getting closer to this reality. Algorithms, <a href=\"http:\/\/link.axios.com\/click\/13588151.22\/aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLnN0YW5mb3JkLmVkdS8yMDE3LzExLzE1L2FsZ29yaXRobS1vdXRwZXJmb3Jtcy1yYWRpb2xvZ2lzdHMtZGlhZ25vc2luZy1wbmV1bW9uaWEvP3V0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1zZW5kdG9fbmV3c2xldHRlcnRlc3Qmc3RyZWFtPXRvcA\/587e487172fbf2056f8b4e5eB66ec8c33\" class=\"\">for example<\/a>, can already diagnose diseases from imaging scans better than human radiologists. Computers possibly could take over the entire radiology specialty.<\/p>\n<p>Read more toggle.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/artificial-intelligence-medicine-doctors-algorithms-604f44b1-eb96-4250-91d3-7f72c5037163.html\">https:\/\/www.axios.com\/artificial-intelligence-medicine-docto...37163.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not unrealistic to think that 80% of what doctors do will be replaced by algorithms and artificial intelligence. The idea, evangelized by venture capitalist Vinod Khosla two years ago, is that machines can more accurately diagnosis us \u2014 and that will reduce deadly medical errors and free doctors up to do other things. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79777,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79686\/revisions\/79777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}