Artificial intelligence hype currently exceeding capability in medicine

Artificial intelligence in medicine is currently in the infancy stage of development, but in 10 to 20 years, the capability of the technology will catch up to the hype, a speaker said at Octane's virtual Ophthalmology Technology Summit. "In the future, ophthalmologists will have to learn about AI, or you'll be vulnerable to ophthalmologists who actually know AI," keynote speaker Anthony Chang, MD, MBA, MPH, MS, chief intelligence and innovation officer at Children's Hospital of Orange County, said at the meeting. The essence of AI in medicine is moving away from evidence-based medicine to achieve precision medicine and population health. A huge information and knowledge gap must be made up by intelligence-based medicine rather than evidence-based medicine, Chang said. "This is important when we think about precision medicine, when we have so many layers of information and data that need to be gathered to make the best decision for each individual patient," he said.