Prospects for a Deep Learning Health Care System

In 1976, Maxmen1 predicted that artificial intelligence (AI) in the 21st century would usher in "the post-physician era," with health care provided by paramedics and computers. Today, the mass extinction of physicians remains unlikely. However, as outlined by Hinton2 in a related Viewpoint, the emergence of a radically different approach to AI, called deep learning, has the potential to effect major changes in clinical medicine and health care delivery.