Artificial Intelligence, M.D.

Artificial intelligence is the fodder of much science fiction. It's in the medical world where Artificial Intelligence (AI) went from an imaginary idea to real-world use. Developments are moving faster than expected. Its first iterations weren't powerful enough to be clinically useful; AI started out with simple pattern recognition by computers. Programmers would "teach" algorithms to generate certain output variables as functions of input variables that were fed to them.