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Use your words! Sorting through the confusing terminology of artificial intelligence

Healthcare IT News: In Orlando on Feb. 11, HIMSS will be hosting its second annual Machine Learning & AI for Healthcare event. That ampersand is important, because there is a distinction between artificial intelligence and machine learning, even if they're often confused or conflated.

Think of it this way: All machine learning is AI, but not all AI is machine learning.

To make it even more interesting, however, there's a healthy handful of other, equally confusing terms associated with AI that even the most tech-savvy healthcare professionals would be forgiven for scratching their heads over. There's cognitive computing and deep learning and neural networks and many others.

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