Three students from Vision West Nottinghamshire College have made a short documentary about AI in medicine featuring an interview with yours truly.
They made contact through this blog having read some of my previous articles on AI in medicine and seeing that I was based near their college.
It was a pleasure to meet with Oliver, Lucy and Sam and be filmed at my surgery. They asked some great questions.
I was shocked in the film to see how much I say “erm”.
Must work on that…
We talked about how AI may soon be supporting, or even outperforming and replacing humans in certain tasks. Particularly those involving the understanding and weighing of complicated information, applying algorithmic rules to make predictions and draw conclusions, especially when consistency and low rates of error are important. This includes a large part of what doctors, health workers and many other professionals do on a day to day basis.
AI looks set to challenge humans in many of those professions which have traditionally been seen as a good bet by students for steady employability and decent pay.
I commented that in choosing to study, film, a field that draws on creativity and originality to entertain other humans, they might have made a smart choice in terms of their future job chances and pay.
Artistic and artisan pursuits require a human touch and a willingness to make mistakes. In order to truly have value for some people, others need to be challenged and to dislike.
“To err is human” and this has value.
Perhaps there is hope for me and my “erms” after all.