Machine learning will replace human radiologists, pathologists, maybe soon

Artificial intelligence, machine learning and cognitive computing systems will replace a number of human jobs, even those requiring higher education, including doctors. "The numbers suggest that machine learning is happening," Leonard D'Avolio, CEO of Cyft, said at the Big Data & Healthcare Analytics Forum on Monday. "The opportunity has been sensed and the money is flowing." D'Avolio pointed specifically to radiology and pathology as ripe areas for machines to replace humans -- even suggesting that in the future it could become unethical not to do so. "In any part of healthcare where a human is interpreting data or images, when a computer does a better job than a human and costs less, the argument could be made that it would be wrong not to use a computer," D'Avolio said.