26-10-2016 06:00 via eurekalert.org

Will your next doctor be a human being -- or a machine?

(Springer) Which would provide more accurate diagnosis and better treatment -- a human doctor, an intelligent machine, or some combination of the two? In Social Machines, authors James Hendler and Alice Mulvehill aim to help readers navigate the partnership between humans and AI. This is not a book about robots, but about the cognitive aspects of AI.
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