How artificial intelligence could transform the medical world Toronto Star

Artificial intelligence is already powering your Google searches, your Netflix recommendations, and your smartphone's virtual assistant. It is playing humans at complex, intuitive games like Go, and it is beating them. Now, researchers say, they want AI to power your doctor's diagnoses, your drug prescriptions, and your smartphone's virtual psychologist. They want AI to perform tasks that radiologists do, and at least match them. Machine learning has made tremendous strides in the last decade, becoming one of the fastest-growing, most-hyped areas of computer science.