BY: MIRANDA NAZZARO
Published: 07/31/23
Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said artificial intelligence (AI) could take over tasks from doctors sooner rather than later.
“The inevitable question isn’t so much if but when these artificial intelligence devices can step into the shoes of doctors. For some tasks, this medical future is sooner than we think,” Gottlieb wrote in an opinion piece published with CNBC.
Gottlieb said AI tools in health care are split into two categories: machine learning, which utilizes algorithms to allow systems to “learn patterns from data and make predictions;” and natural language processing, which understands and creates human language.