Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-07-09]: The 'deep learning' computers in a diagnostic imaging lab routinely defeat their Human counterparts in diagnosing heart failure, detecting various cancers and predicting their strength. But nonetheless researchers dismiss any notion that such machines might someday replace pathologists and radiologists. [1] We are soon to have computers as doctors. The wave of progress cannot be stopped. We will become machines. Because this is what we believe we are, for centuries now. There is no argument against using AI to diagnose problems in the path we have chosen to follow. Unless we turn back and discard the whole structure of science as we know it altogether. There is no data. There are no useful theories. There is only man. And his will to live in an inhumane cosmos. Inside a cold doctor’s room, the lights are off. Lifeless computers. Beeps and hums. Killing humans. One diagnosis at a time...

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