Editorial: AI in Healthcare; Will it Make us Dispensable?

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the virtue of machines like computer systems, which mimics human intelligence in the form of  visual perception, speech recognition and language translation.

Machine learning (ML) is a type of AI which gives computers the ability to learn from and improve with experience, without being explicitly programmed.¹

The term “Artificial Intelligence” was first coined by John McCarthy for a conference on the subject held at Dartmouth in 1956 as “the science and engineering of making intelligent machines”. The computer performs tasks based upon algorithms which are the building blocks of AI.¹...................................................................................................................................