The College of Optometrists called AI "the new buzzword in ophthalmology" and over the last 12 months it has been hitting headlines on a regular basis. The definition of AI can mean different things. AI-equipped machines range from purely reactive ones like IBM's Deep Blue, which famously beat international chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov in the 90's, to the most advanced AI technology today which enables machines to teach themselves new skills by looking at, and processing, the world around them. The latter is what the ophthalmic space has been getting excited about, where computers have been using artificial neural networks that replicate the human brain in order to take in, process and learn from information presented. One of the biggest stories of 2018 came from that, when a study from Moorfield's Eye Hospital was conducted in the UK, working with Google's DeepMind project.