Thursday, January 14, 2010

Artificial Intelligence Article: An Artificial Intelligence Program to Advise Physicians Regarding Antimicrobial Therapy

For my Biomedical Informatics Journal Club I read the article listed above in order to make a presentation tomorrow.  This was great companion work to the Medical Informatics class.  It was about an antimicrobial therapy consultation system. 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) seeks to mimic/approximate the reasoning techniques of an intelligent human.  I think that is facinating.  Tonight, we learned that the average population is reading at a 5th grade level.  Therefore, conceptually, AI has the capability of demonstrating greater intelligence than the majority of the population.

As with consumer medical health education, the methodology of this therapy consultation system seeks to present information in formats that are familiar to the user.

1 comment:

  1. Thus, all the more push for virtual learning environments and simulations. Second Life?

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