Some Thoughts About Artificial Intelligence

Hours were spent punching data onto cards that were fed into an early digital electronic computer called FLAC (Florida Automatic Computer).2 FLAC was gigantic; it used vacuum tubes, weighed approximately a half ton, and was built at the cost of about one-half billion US dollars. 11 In my opinion, any amount of error at the individual patient level is a bit scary, although when data sets are large enough, even error rates of 5% should be mitigated by randomization. What about electronic data security? I was very amused to read that President Donald Trump's GHIN (Golf Handicap and Information Network) golfing handicap scores were falsely posted because the database holding them had been hacked.12 That is the funny news.