Big Data. Artificial Intelligence. Machine Learning. All very 2022, all very trendy. But how can this help our practice in Paediatric Intensive Care?

Heather Duncan, consultant intensivist in Birmingham, has been working for many years with AI and Machine Learning, including input from the MacLaren F1 team. What is Big Data? Is it useful at the bedside? What is AI, and what types of machine learning are there?

Can human intuition be bettered by a computer, or are we kidding ourselves that we can do better? What are the results of initial trials in this area? How does it feel to be beaten by a computer? How should the computers be talking to the humans? And is medicine more or less complicated than the best game in the world, Go?

Published concurrently with the 2022 PCCS conference in Leicester, UK.

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