Former Microsoft Head of Research: Machines Will Soon Know Better Than Your Doctor

Craig Mundie, former Microsoft Chief Research & Strategy Officer, was blunt in his assessment at the COSM conference on tech's future in medicine: "Human biology is too complicated for humans. If it is too complicated for humans, is it too complicated for machines?" He told his audience that Big Data will enable each person to be "completely understood" by Artificial General Intelligence machines that can produce a computer facsimile of each detail of a single individual. It would be far too complex for human physicians to make sense of, he said. In his talk, he cited recent victories of machines like AlphaGo at games and of DeepMind and Open AI at crunching big data in medicine.