Medscape February 25, 2020
Artificial intelligence (AI) is garnering increasing attention and popularity across medicine, and psychiatry is no exception. However, whether AI will live up to its promise and improve the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness remains to be seen.
AI is the general concept of creating expert systems to carry out various kinds of tasks, and machine learning (ML) is a subset of AI, with statistical systems that learn features of the data that are predictive of some variable of interest, explained Peter Foltz, PhD, a research professor at the University of Colorado Institute of Cognitive Science in Boulder.
One reason for the growing interest in AI is the “enormous range” of potential applications it offers, said John Krystal, MD, professor...
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