Artificial Intelligence -- Don't Be Scared, Be Hopeful

Are we destined to be replaced by computers? It seems like every day there's a new article about artificial intelligence (AI) and how it's going to take over healthcare, and make physicians in particular unnecessary to this process that we've come to know as medical care. There are AI projects that use complex neural networks and natural language processing to try to re-create what physicians do across the spectrum of care that we provide for patients. People are trying to create a computer than can diagnose and ultimately treat diseases, essentially obliterating the need for us humans to be involved in the process. Take, for example, the field of radiology.