The powerful promise of AI

How far will AI take us in areas such as healthcare? Will we see medical pods like this one featured in science fiction film Prometheus to treat future patients? CIO veteran and industry consultant, Geoff Wenborn, sees enormous opportunity for artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare - identifying 35 use cases alone for robotics and AI at places like UnitingCare Queensland. Wenborn, who provides IT transformation consulting to several organisations including UnitingCare Queensland and Starlight Children's Foundation Australia (and built some proof of concepts), said the sky's the limit in terms of use case possibilities. At UnitingCare, he was the interim CIO charged with doing transformation, and is currently the chair of the Starlight IT Advisory Board.