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Please read the article "The Smartest Machines Are Playing Games" on page 34 of April 3 - April 9, 2017 Issue of Bloomberg Businessweek. You can download a copy of this article by searching the title in UHV online library. Does the AI trend described in the article has any implications for the healthcare industry? Please explain.
Based on studying the article, we can say that this form of AI has a good number of applications in the healthcare industry. We call it deep learning, as pioneered by DeepMind, a company Google purchased, which provided the algorithm in which the article is based. Deep learning is the process which has much more applications than an ANN(artificial neural net). Since the learning process is what creates the best form of implementation, the machine actually has the ability to gauge into the system to find the best possible oath to solve a problem. This is what we call the optimal pathway and since we need to give the parameters for the machine to find the best possible commentating on its own, the machine can create a path that best benefits the system. As a result, the system becomes more fault tolerant since the best possible implementation is not provided to them, rather, the problem is actually solved right from the beginning. In healthcare, such a system can be used in EHR applications as well as for the process of generation of the best possible path of action that can be taken in order to deal with a patient based on the patients that have had a similar condition. The calculations would be precise to a point as well as would make use of technology in order to further optimize this solution. Deep learning can be used to solve problems which other machine learning implementations have not taken into account and one we can actually realize the ability of this system, we can make use of this technology to advance healthcare by paces. The general applications would also include healthcare records management, detection of fraud as well as problems such as inventory as well.