Technology Quarterly
Jun 11th 2020 edition
An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in
After years of hype, many people feel AI has failed to deliver, says Tim Cross
“Surveying the field of medical AI in 2019, Eric Topol, a cardiologist and AI enthusiast, wrote that “the state of AI hype has far exceeded the state of AI science, especially when it pertains to validation and readiness for implementation in patient care”…. None of this necessarily reduces AI’s potential, but it has the effect of slowing its adoption.”