The rise of AI in medicine

By now, it's almost old news that artificial intelligence (AI) will have a transformative role in medicine. Algorithms have the potential to work tirelessly, at faster rates and now with potentially greater accuracy than clinicians. In 2016, it was predicted that'machine learning will displace much of the work of radiologists and anatomical pathologists'. In the same year, a University of Toronto professor controversially announced that'we should stop training radiologists now'. But is it really the beginning of the end for some medical specialties?