AI with 'imagination' are BETTER at diagnosing patients than doctors are

Babylon App, the online healthcare service, has created a new artificial intelligence algorithm which has'imagination'. A study created an AI which was programmed with'causal reasoning', the robotic equivalent of human imagination. This instills an element of'outside the box' thinking into the system, which allows it to consider what symptoms it might see if the patient had different illnesses from the one it was considering. The system is superior to its predecessor, which is used in the app currently, and real-life doctors when it comes to accurately diagnosing patients. Babylon has been promoted by Health Secretary Matt Hancock and is currently operational in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Wolverhampton.