Google's DeepMind and the NHS: A glimpse of what AI means for the future of healthcare ZDNet

Head and neck scans are one of the areas where Google's DeepMind will be finetuning its health skills. Healthcare has always been seen as rich pickings for artificial intelligence: when IBM first decided to kit out Watson for use in the enterprise, its earliest commercial test was in cancer care. There are a number of reasons why health and artificial intelligence might seem like a good fit. One is simply that healthcare organisations around the world, and in the UK in particular, need to save money: any task that can be taken off a clinician's workload and automated by AI potentially represents a cost saving. AI that knows you're sick before you do: IBM's five-year plan to remake healthcare A mix of artificial intelligence and custom silicon could help people diagnose themselves with a range of conditions before they show symptoms.