{"id":40597,"date":"2017-11-10T13:04:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T12:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=40597"},"modified":"2017-11-17T17:03:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T16:03:59","slug":"jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2017\/11\/10\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/12\/jeffrey_aronson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-32935\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/12\/jeffrey_aronson-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"jeffrey_aronson\" width=\"112\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/12\/jeffrey_aronson-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/12\/jeffrey_aronson.jpg 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 112px) 100vw, 112px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One can hardly pick up a newspaper or magazine these days without reading something about artificial intelligence, typically in relation to computer programmes or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/%202017\/10\/27\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-automata-androids-replicants-and-robots\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">robots<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In March 2017 a computer programme, AlphaGo, beat a world champion, the South Korean Lee Sedol (pictured below), at go, a game once thought to be too difficult for computers to master at that level. It had already beaten the less highly regarded European champion, Fan Hui, in October 2016. AlphaGo <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/how-the-computer-beat-the-go-master\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">relies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on neural networks, a database of many millions of games, Monte Carlo techniques, and programmed learning. A new computer programme, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/29052630\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AlphaGo Zero<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, using no database, fewer training games, and reinforced learning, recently beat AlphaGo 100\u20130.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-40602 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2017\/11\/aronson_ai_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2017\/11\/aronson_ai_1.png 595w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2017\/11\/aronson_ai_1-300x182.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first method for programming a computer to play chess was <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/vision.unipv.it\/IA1\/aa2009-2010\/ProgrammingaComputerforPlayingChess.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">described<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Claude Shannon in 1949. With great foresight he suggested that a chess playing programme \u201cshould make more use of brutal calculation than humans.\u201d Early programming attempts concentrated on mimicking human play, but when more powerful computers became available, it became clear that brute force was superior. In 1997, a computer, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0004370201001291\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Deep Blue<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, defeated the then world champion, Garry Kasparov (pictured below). This year Kasparov, having finally come to terms with that loss, wrote a book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Deep Thinking<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, describing the event and the implications for the development of computer intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-40603 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2017\/11\/aronson_ai_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2017\/11\/aronson_ai_2.png 597w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2017\/11\/aronson_ai_2-300x192.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Surprisingly, a computer has never defeated a reigning world champion at draughts (checkers), a computationally simpler game. In 1994 the Chinook programme might have beaten the then world champion, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wylliedraughts.com\/Tinsley.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marion Tinsley<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, who withdrew after six drawn games and died a week later from pancreatic cancer; the programme then beat the second ranked player, Don Lafferty. It has since been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cs.nyu.edu\/courses\/spring13\/CSCI-UA.0472-001\/Checkers\/checkers.solved.science.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">shown<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that, with perfect play, games of draughts are always destined to be drawn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These programmes play games that are undoubtedly difficult, but whose parameters are strictly bounded. Perhaps more impressive is Watson, a computer programmed to answer questions posed in natural language, by scrutinising hundreds of language analysis algorithms simultaneously. In 2011 Watson beat two former winners of the US television quiz game <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/ibm-watson-the-inside-story-of-how-the-jeopardy-winning-supercomputer-was-born-and-what-it-wants-to-do-next\/\">Jeopardy<\/a> <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(pictured below)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. It has since been put to use in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-37653588\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">diagnosis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/watson\/health\/life-sciences\/drug-discovery\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">drug discovery<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-40601 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2017\/11\/aronson_ai3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2017\/11\/aronson_ai3.png 596w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2017\/11\/aronson_ai3-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Natural language processing (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/strathprints.strath.ac.uk\/2611\/1\/strathprints002611.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NLP<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) concerns the ways in which computers deal with natural languages. Watson is one manifestation, and machine translation, still somewhat rudimentary but improving, is another. Detailed case histories can be analysed in prevention, diagnosis, and management of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/28643174\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">adverse drug reactions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, using <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/25659451\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">techniques<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> such as automated text analysis and data-driven cluster analysis, although the potential is not yet fully realised in pharmacovigilance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is unsurprising that the task of reading a text can be accomplished by artificial intelligence, since \u201cintelligence\u201d has reading at its core. The Latin word intellegere comes from inter, among or between, and legere, to gather or collect, to pick out or choose, and to read or learn by reading. It therefore implies reading between the lines, and therefore means to understand by inference, to deduce, infer, discern, recognise, and appreciate, or to comprehend the meaning of language.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Legere comes from the IndoEuropean root LEG, to gather, set in order, choose, read, or speak. You read a lecture or a lesson at a lectern, perhaps eclectically, if your notes are legible and you don\u2019t have dyslexia. In Greek \u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2 is a word or discourse. Most words ending in \u2013ology mean studies of one sort or another, but in some cases the suffix means literally a word; for example, haplology, a process of contraction whereby a single letter or syllable results instead of two that are identical or sound similar; mineralogy and mammalogy are examples of haplology\u2014they would have been mineralology and mammalology, had contraction not occurred. Dittology is ambiguity in reading or interpretation. An apology was originally a speech in defence. Doxology is speaking praise to God. Trilogies and tetralogies are sets of three or four books. Then there are prologues, epilogues, and the Decalogue, 10 important sets of words.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIntelligence\u201d entered English in the late 14<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> century, meaning the faculty of understanding and a capacity to understand. It soon came to mean sagacity, understanding, comprehension, knowledge, and hence, in the late 15<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> century, a piece of information or news.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/%202017\/08\/18\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-judgement-or-algorithm-head-or-formula\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">known <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">since the 1950s that computerised medical algorithms, created (don\u2019t forget) by human intelligence, can perform as well as humans, or better. Artificial may mean fake and intelligence means news, but artificial intelligence is by no means fake news.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Jeffrey Aronson<\/strong>\u00a0is a clinical pharmacologist, working in the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in Oxford&#8217;s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. He is also president emeritus of the British Pharmacological Society.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Competing interests:<\/strong>\u00a0None declared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One can hardly pick up a newspaper or magazine these days without reading something about artificial intelligence, typically in relation to computer programmes or robots. 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