Newcomb
Hollow Beach, Cape Cod National Seashore, Wellfleet, MA, 9 August 2015, 11:03,
© David Hartzband
I have not posted to this blog in about nine months. I’ve
been busy working on a large analytics project in the healthcare safety net (Federally
Qualified Community Health Centers) & writing on technology topics other
than in healthcare.
The next posts will be a mixture of thoughts &
predictions mainly in the area still called artificial intelligence. I’ve a
good deal of work in this area in the (far distant) past, but my focus has
always been on developing systems to enhance the reasoning & problem
solving abilities of people. This is different than the focus of many of my
colleagues who have attempted to develop systems that reproduce some aspect of
human capability, up to & including developing systems that are
indistinguishable from people, not just in the linguistic sense of a Turing
test, an “imitation game”, but in a holistic sense. I have no opinion about the
integrity & usefulness of this work, other than that I have chosen to
emphasize other aspects of machine abilities in my own work, but the recent
spate of very visible & knowledgeable scientists & technologists who
have commented on the direction of current AI work[1]
gives some idea of how concerned people are.
My next few posts will focus on this general topic with an
emphasis on the evolution of search, the implications of ultra-large data set
analytics (Big Data) & deep learning for the development of AI as well as
the implications of these technologies for healthcare information technology
& healthcare in general. My next planned posts should be (remember,
planning is for guidance):
·
Turing Tests, Search & the development of
Artificial Intelligence – A Meditation on the Movie Ex Machina
·
The Concept of Data as an Asset & Its
Relationship to Healthcare Decision Making
·
Design Process & the Evolution of Knowledge
Work – What Will Future Knowledge Worker Really be Like? & What Kinds of
Systems Will They Use?
·
& further out… General Thoughts on the
Evolution of Information Technology based on a “Cluster of Terms” Model[2]
[1]c.f.
Bill Gates - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/01/28/bill-gates-on-
dangers-of-artificial-intelligence-dont-understand-why-some-people-are-not-concerned/
Stephen Hawking - http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30290540
[2] Foster, Hal. 2015. Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency.
Verso. NYC. 208 pp.
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