[evandijk70]

I would be very willing to take that bet on a 30 year horizon

Just think about the machines/algorithms your wife already (indirectly) uses to predict outcome for patients.

- An MRI scan, which is created from physical laws (Maxwell's law together with a quantum mechanical understanding of hydrogen atoms) and reconstructs a 3D-image of the different tumors. Knowing if and where metastasis are present have an enormous impact on the prognosis.

- The algorithms used to align sequencing reads from biopsies to determine the mutation status, which are critical to determine the prognosis of some tumors.

In fact, I'd wager that if your wife did not have access to these algorithms, she would already perform worse. And, in my opinion, the distinction between machine learning and the algorithms used to reconstruct 3D-images or align sequences is somewhat arbitrary.