You can’t spell pain without AI: How Artificial Intelligence will change Pain Medicine

Abstract

The Ratio Club was a private dining group formed in 1949 to discuss cybernetics, an emerging discipline concerned with control and communication in animals and machines. Early correspondence from its founders stressed the importance of conviviality to facilitate discussion, with meetings ranging from the structure of nerve fibres to the education of digital computers. By explicitly drawing parallels between the nervous system and early computing, the group helped shape the intellectual foundations of modern artificial intelligence (AI).