Google proved that AI can reshape medicine

A doctor's work isn't all done in examination rooms. Many specialists spend lots of time alone with the lights out, examining photographs that reveal their patients' internal workings. A paper by Google published in the Journal of the American Medical Association details an algorithm that can detect when someone has developed blindness as a result of diabetes, trained and tested by board-certified ophthalmologists. A key difference between this research and previous papers on medical imaging by large tech companies is its publication and defense by a respected medical journal like JAMA. Concurrent with Google's paper, JAMA also published an article translating the finding for medical professionals and urging the community that this is a good thing--algorithms can let doctors spend more time with patients, rather than reading scans.