Rachel Thomas, PhD - “AI will cure cancer” misunderstands both AI and medicine
an AI researcher going back to school for immunology
AI is great at finding patterns in existing data. However, AI will not be able to solve this problem of missing and erroneous underlying data
Medical data is often limited by the categories of billing codes, by what doctors choose to note from a patient’s account
The many other factors that influence medical care, including the systematic disregard for patients’ knowledge of their own experiences, are often ignored in these discussions