AI is Good at the What

No surprise, but AI is better than people at detecting early signs of breast cancer.

Let’s hope this continues for other types of cancers and illnesses. (It will).

AI is good at numbers. AI is good at pattern recognition. AI is good at very large datasets. AI is good at the what if the what can be determined objectively. 

AI may know you have cancer, but it stinks at knowing how you feel. Even if you tell it. It can interpret what you say, but it has no context. No personal understanding. No family. No friends. No dreams. No story.

Let’s keep pushing and training AI to help us with the what. Unabashedly. 

But let’s also keep pushing and training people to help us with how we feel.