A doctor looks at the results of a mammography. Despite all of our fears about artificial intelligence (AI), we still have to look at the health benefits that could save lives through machine learning. According to a study conducted by researchers from Imperial College London and Google Health, an AI program has been developed that can identify breast cancer from routine scans with greater accuracy than its human counterparts. Google's DeepMind system has been trained to spot abnormalities on X-ray images. According to the findings, which were published this week by Nature, scans of 29,000 women from the U.S. and UK were used in the trial.

There is no doubt that artificial intelligence or AI has immense potential. In the next few years, it will revolutionize every field of our life, including healthcare. The technology has sent vast waves across the sector, powered by the growing availability of healthcare data and the fast progress of analytic procedures. Due to its power of transforming healthcare, there have been active discussions of whether AI will take the place of physicians/doctors in the future. One thing is for sure that even if AI will not replace physicians/doctors, it can surely help them tackle key issues in the healthcare system.