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Abstract
This article was presented at the 2017 annual meeting of the American Association
of Hip and Knee Surgeons to introduce the members gathered as the audience to the
concepts behind artificial intelligence (AI) and the applications that AI can have
in the world of health care today. We discuss the origin of AI, progress to machine
learning, and then discuss how the limits of machine learning lead data scientists
to develop artificial neural networks and deep learning algorithms through biomimicry.
We will place all these technologies in the context of practical clinical examples
and show how AI can act as a tool to support and amplify human cognitive functions
for physicians delivering care to increasingly complex patients. The aim of this article
is to provide the reader with a basic understanding of the fundamentals of AI. Its
purpose is to demystify this technology for practicing surgeons so they can better
understand how and where to apply it.