Opening remarks at the Artificial intelligence for good global summit

I welcome this opportunity to learn from the vast amount of technical expertise assembled in this room. Market analysts predict that intelligent machines, programmed to think and reason like the human mind, will revolutionize health care in the very near future. In fact, proponents of the transformative power of artificial intelligence usually give two examples: self-driving cars and the delivery of health care. This year's influential Internet Trends Report, released last week in the USA, covers the effects of new technology on health care for the first time, again predicting a huge transformative impact. Artificial intelligence is a new frontier for the health sector.