A Data Management Case to Embrace Artificial Intelligence - DATAVERSITY

One of the subjects of debate surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI) is whether, or how much, its progress threatens taking humans out of the equation in industries of every type. At the Aspen Ideas Festival this summer, Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng was one of a panel commenting on the trend, noting that Artificial Intelligence is on the path to transform every major sector, from healthcare to education to manufacturing, and that it will displace a lot of jobs while doing it, for both blue- and white-collar workers. Not everyone sees the technology as taking humans out of the equation though. For Walter De Brouwer, who has a history in internet entrepreneurship and is founder and CEO of the recently-launched computational linguistics company doc.ai, "It will be a great thing for humanity when machines are as conversant in natural language as we It depends upon advanced AI, an edge learning network, medical data forensics and the decentralized Blockchain to generate insights from combined medical data and deliver information in context to improve users' healthcare.