The Lumiata AI prescribing healthcare interventions

The hysteria surrounding both machine learning and artificial intelligence is substantiating mathematician Alan Turing's assertion that eventually "no one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted". Indeed now, the concept of the'rise of robots' is no longer merely a plot in a Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster, but an area being explored by academics, researchers and technologists across the world. Silicon Valley start-up Lumiata, for example, uses AI to map out current and future health trajectories of individuals and provide detailed reasons behind every prediction. Ash Damle, founder and CEO of the company, told BusinessCloud that AI solves an issue of scale. "If we gave physicians enough time to go through all of the data and look for patterns and individuals, they could get some wonderful insight, but the reality is that people are constrained," he said.