Apple COO Jeff Williams says AI will change the world, with healthcare 'ripe for change'

Apple's chief operating officer Jeff Williams attended the 30th anniversary celebrations of A-series chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, and took the opportunity to say a few words about the importance of AI in general – and the phone as an AI tool in particular. I think we're at an inflection point, with on-device computing, coupled with the potential of AI, to really change the world. Reuters reports that he said that AI could be used to transform the healthcare sector, an industry he described as'ripe' for change. He said that the phone was a major AI platform. We think that the frameworks that we've got, the'neural engines' we've put in the phone, in the watch … we do view that as a huge piece of the future, we believe these frameworks will allow developers to create apps that will do more and more in this space, so we think the phone is a major platform.