12 Ways Artificial Intelligence Can Make You a Healthier Man

When Greg Corrado, Ph.D., an artificial intelligence researcher, took the stage at the TedMed Conference last year, he was frank. "Doctors who partner with artificial intelligence as a decision-making aid will see their healing powers expand more than they have in the past 100 years," he told the audience of medical professionals. Corrado is a principal scientist at Google AI and an expert in machine learning. "To practice medicine today," he continued, "is to weather an information hurricane...AI [and machine learning] is our best opportunity to tame the data beast and actually scale care to meet demand." Companies are creating algorithms to sort medical records, determine treatments, diagnose sepsis in as little as 12 hours, and even predict who will skip their next doctor's appointment.