According to the Economist's "How to spot children’s speaking and listening problems early",
Ms. Gong and Dr. Guttag, both computer scientist, teach the machine to diagnose language and speech disorder. They did the experiment with 231 children by recording their speech and let the machine to distinguish the disorder, then compare to the result diagnosed by two speech pathologists, Ms. Hogan and Dr. Green. The accuracy of the machine distinguisher is 72 %. They believe if such system were developed and converted to an application, it would help parents to test their children and receive the warning sign earlier whether something wrong.
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My response
I like their idea that they use the machines to help other people. Even though it is not 100 % correct in their algorithm, it can be developed and get better.
I believe computer science, in the future, even at the present, plays the important role in medical field more and more. Many medications and vaccines cannot be invented without computer science.
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That is true that medicine cannot be developed without a computer science. However I am afraid that in the future we will be diagnosed and operated by machine only. It might sound ok to many people but think about cost of this kind of treatments and accessibility of people. What if doctors were discouraged by low income? medical professionals would only attract incompetent students. It is true that there are some doctors that really want to make a contribution to the society but we have to admit that money is also one of incentive and a critical one. Finally only the rich will benefit for this technology.
ReplyDeleteThe scenario that I raise up might seem to be a bit exaggerated but who knows, perhaps it is the inconvenient truth of next century.