Canada's AI boom will see healthcare reap the rewards

We are on the edge of a new reality, powered and enabled by artificial intelligence. In the next decade, we could see all aspects of our society transformed. Those to change first will be data-rich industries like healthcare, financial services and energy. Canada's new AI lab, The Vector Institute – of which I sit on the board of directors – has a focus in Deep Learning, pioneered by Geoff Hinton, with applications in a wide variety of fields including healthcare, financial services, manufacturing and material science. And that means breakthroughs in healthcare are coming--and it goes far beyond image classification.