title: Computers as clinicians: an update.
abstract: Computers as clinicians entered medical settings relatively recently, but with limited success because they lack general intelligence--that is, though they can be experts in domain specific specialties, they cannot yet deal with clinical problems never before encountered. SOAR, a novel AI computer programming architecture, can learn from past encounters with prior problems and can generalize its learning to new ones. It may therefore take computers to a higher level of clinical performance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Chicago 60680.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kleinmuntz
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000639:trends; D005103:Expert Systems; D005544:Forecasting