Artificial Intelligence: the new healthcare algorithm - PMLiVE

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, and the art of using computers to understand human intelligence. When it comes to healthcare, AI can bring about radical changes to the way doctors and physicians access, communicate, and interact with patient data. Crucially, this can result in improved patient outcomes and even the possibility of using an individual patient's history - such as previous illnesses, allergies or even genetic makeup - to predict their exact treatment requirements. Associate Medical Copywriter Kulveer Singh explains how the introduction of AI can change the landscape of healthcare, why it's an exciting time for the development of new technologies, and the challenges that implementing new AI may pose. In 2011, IBM's supercomputer WATSON competed against and obliterated a long-term game show champion. All this, despite the general thought that computer programmes were unable to understand natural language, puns, red herrings, and to simply unpack the meaning behind game show questions.