How artificial intelligence can completely revolutionize Canadian health care

Adam Kassam is the chief resident physician in the department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Western University in London, Ont.. Naila Kassam is a family physician and adjunct professor in the department of Family Medicine at Western University. By honing the incredible potential of neural nets -- the assembly of computer networks -- in a way that mirrors the architecture of the human brain, Dr. Hinton has unlocked the learning power of machines. In so doing, he has become the darling of a burgeoning area of computing that has the ability to completely revolutionize the practice of medicine and the delivery of health care. Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto is among the foremost researchers in the field of machine-learning and artificial intelligence. As AI begins to take off, will the health-care industry be receptive to technological disruption despite its notorious aversion to change? What is clear is that it will be crucial for the medical community to use its clinical expertise to help leverage technology and AI to improve the delivery of health care.