Not so fast AI Doctor, the FDA would like to check how good you really are at healthcare

The US Food and Drug Administration has proposed a framework on how it might regulate medical devices that rely on AI and machine learning algorithms. The report published this week outlines two types of algorithms for the purposes of regulation: "locked algorithms" and "adaptive algorithms." Locked algorithms provide the same result each time they're fed the same input. The answers are normally based on things like look-up tables, decision trees, or classifiers. An adaptive algorithm, however, will "change its behavior using a defined learning process."