The Doctor in the Machine: How AI Is Saving Lives in Healthcare

Artificial intelligence has received its fair share of hype recently. However, it's hype that's well-founded: IDC predicts worldwide spend on AI and cognitive computing will culminate to a whopping $46 billion (with a "b") by 2020, and all the tech giants are jumping on board faster than you can say "ROI." But what is AI, exactly? According to Hilary Mason, AI today is being misused as a sort of catch-all term to basically describe "any system that uses data to do anything." A truly artificially intelligent system is one that learns on its own, one that's capable of crunching copious amounts of data in order to create associations and intelligently mimic actual human behavior.