AI and Machine Learning Humor – Fun Friday

Two of the biggest buzzwords right now in healthcare are AI and machine learning. The problem is that both of these things are real and are going to impact healthcare in really significant ways, but everyone is using them to apply to everything. Once the industry starts doing that, words lose their meaning.

That said, I still couldn’t help but laugh at this AI and machine learning cartoon (Credit to Andrew Richards for sharing this cartoon with me):

The sad reality is that this is what many companies are doing. They look for the answers they want instead of looking at what answers the data provides. That’s a hard concept for many to grasp and takes a real expert to do the latter effectively.

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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