Artificial Intelligence (AI) and medicine

Chris Smith and Phil Sansom delve into the world of artificial Intelligence (AI) to find out how this emerging technology is changing the way we practise medicine... Mike - I think this is an area where AI stands a really good chance of making quite dramatic improvements to very large numbers of people's lives. Carolyn - Save lives and reduce medical complications. Beth - That's a concern - when machine-learning algorithms learn the wrong things. Andrew - Frankly revolutionary productivity that we are now starting to see from these AI approaches in drug design. Lee - It will replace all manual labor in all research laboratories. And then suddenly everyone can collaborate. Phil - But what was previously sci-fi is now closer to reality. AI technology exists, and there's a brand new frontier where it's being applied to the world of healthcare. Chris - But this isn't the AI you see in the movies. In the words of Kent University computer scientist Colin Johnson, "this is more software than Schwarzeneggar"... Colin - When scientists say AI, they often mean some piece of code that's running on a computer and it's taking some inputs.