Google I/O 2018 highlights AI health projects

Google has unleashed a tidal wave of product and feature updates through the ongoing Google I/O developers' conference, and it's no surprise that the intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare was a recurring spotlight among them. Through keynote speeches and simultaneously released online blog posts, the company highlighted a handful of tech-driven healthcare efforts that seem to be bearing fruit. "Last year at Google I/O we announced Google AI, a collection of our teams and efforts to bring the benefits of AI to everyone," Google CEO Sundar Pichai said during the event's keynote. "… Healthcare is one of the most important fields AI is going to transform." Pichai made his case by recapping the company's work on interpreting retina images to detect diabetic retinopathy.