AI Can Improve Patient Outcomes, but will Pharma Get there Quickly Enough?

No matter what industry you're in, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all the rage. In pop culture alone it's the central theme of HBO's Westworld, where humanoid AI robots pretend to be people, or even the most recent season of Silicon Valley where a major character was an AI-powered robot named Fiona. AI is also the central, recurring theme at every conference. Even at giant tradeshows like the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) where, this year, we saw autonomous vehicles, voice-enabled bot driving assistants within cars, L'Oreal's thumbnail-sized UV sensor patch, and hundreds of other AI-enabled "smart" products. At South by Southwest (SXSW), it seemed every other session was about AI.