Marko Stokić

The AI Doctor Will See All of You Now

Long before hundreds of millions of users made ChatGPT one of the world's most popular apps in mere weeks in 2022, we were talking about the potential for AI to make us healthier, and our lives longer.  In the 1970s, a team at Stanford developed MYCIN, one of the first AI systems designed to aid medical diagnosis. MYCIN used a knowledge base of about 600 rules to identify bacteria causing infections and recommend antibiotics.  Though it outperformed human experts in trials, MYCIN was never used...