AI medical care has demonstrated powerful medical application capabilities. The eye tracking system of the EYE KNOW robot can help with early screening of Alzheimer's disease, and the surgical robot can actually write on a beating “heart”, etc.
While developing, a question is also raised: In the future, as AI medical care becomes more powerful, can AI replace doctors? Some people believe that AI medical technology is an auxiliary technology for modern doctors, just like the emergence of CT and other technologies in medicine. The emergence of these technologies cannot replace doctors. On the contrary, they can only become a technical means used by doctors in modern medicine. Of course, some people have expressed doubts and believe that AI medical care in the future will develop its own wisdom.
So, another question also follows: If a medical accident occurs when seeing a doctor through AI medical care, which party should be responsible? Many people have similar or identical views on this issue. With the development of AI medical technology, human corresponding laws and regulations will also follow up, just like before there were cars, humans did not have traffic safety laws. With the popularization of cars, traffic safety laws and regulations will also follow up. Obviously, who is responsible for medical accidents when seeing a doctor with AI medical care should not be a problem in future laws and regulations.
On the question of whether AI medical care will replace doctors in the future, there is a very interesting direction of thinking, that is, what data feeds the current AI medical big data technology, and whether these data also have human preferences. At present, AI intelligence will develop along human preferences and towards “more preference”. This development can be corrected when AI technology continues to develop. As a doctor, you have the ability to correct deviations. As AI medical care, before developing real wisdom, it should lack this ability to correct deviations.
Judging from the current AI medical achievements, the current AI medical care is still in the state of assisting doctors in some large hospitals. Especially the front-end link of consultation and treatment, and the middle link of prescribing medicine. The surgical robot that can write on the “heart” is also similar to the current unmanned driving technology. Although it can realize the “unmanned” operation mode, it still needs the cooperation of doctors under normal circumstances. It is only a surgical auxiliary tool for doctors.
So, can surgical robots complete an operation independently in the future? At present, some scenes have appeared in some science fiction movies. The protagonists are shot and wounded, lying on medical equipment, and intelligent robots can help humans remove bullets, disinfect and suture. It is possible that in the near future, some relatively simple operations can be completed independently by surgical robots, even without the presence of professional doctors. Currently, the only operation that can be achieved is tooth extraction. The operation speed of surgical robots is much faster than that of human doctors. Moreover, this technology has been rolled out in many medical places.
What humans are more concerned about is whether AI medical care can provide a one-stop service from consultation, medical treatment, treatment, and rehabilitation in the future. The results shown now include front-end, mid-end, and rehabilitation back-end. If these ports are finally combined, a powerful Chinese AI medical system may emerge. This is very similar to someone making a robot's hand, someone making a robot's eye, and someone making a robot's intelligent analysis system. When everyone joins together, it will be a powerful robot.
I personally tend to believe that in the near future, AI medical care will help doctors complete many work tasks, especially under the premise of unequal medical distribution. In many county-level hospitals and township hospitals, the application value of AI medical care is greater. For example, some difficult and complicated diseases need to be seen in famous hospitals. At that time, through the AI medical system, it can be completed in small clinics. Of course, this also depends on whether major hospitals are willing to share their clinical experience.
The current front-end problem of AI medical development is whether major frontier hospitals have come up with their own technical achievements and shared public data. Many frontier hospitals are actually using AI technology to form their own AI medical achievements. These achievements are currently not shared outside their own hospitals. In the future, big data will open up this sharing link, and a powerful AI medical system may emerge. Users can see most of the diseases at home, and can prescribe medicines. The medicines will be delivered to their homes, and the AI medical system will also intervene in the subsequent rehabilitation link.
In the next five to ten years, the most likely AI medical service is likely to be for individuals. After users purchase this service, they actually hire a private doctor for themselves. In the next ten to twenty years, as more users have their own private doctors, even if we go to the hospital, we will bring our own private doctors with us, and private doctors and hospital doctors will provide faster docking services. Major operations are performed in hospitals. Minor operations can be completed by patients at home. Although AI medical services in the future cannot completely replace doctors, they can replace doctors to complete many tasks, and equip doctors with “nuclear power”, which is faster, better, stronger, more accurate, and more personalized. In the future, everyone will have their own private doctor robot.