Xavier Amatriain's answer to What are the most significant machine learning advances in 2017? - Quora

Finally for the past few months I have been working on AI for medicine and healthcare. I am also happy to see that the rate of innovation in less "traditional" domains like healthcare is quickly picking up. AI and ML have been applied to medicine with years, starting with expert and Bayesian systems in the 60s and 70s. However, I often find myself citing papers that are only a few months old. Some of the recent innovations presented this year include the use of Deep RL, GANs, or Autoencoders to represent patient phenotypes.