This year, whiz kid Ke Jie, the world champion of Chinese national pastime GO, was soundly defeated by a computer powered by Artificial Intelligence. Jie described it as a "horrible experience," but it highlighted the tremendous potential AI has in fields such as gaming – and far beyond. One such field is medicine and healthcare, where we are beginning to reap the benefits of technology that has the potential to impact billions of lives around the world. Here are five health-related industries poised to be revolutionized by Artificial Intelligence in 2018. For doctors, analyzing a patient's records – many of which are still handwritten – often involves the time-consuming task of going through a lifetime's history of notes, lab results and prescriptions. IBM, along with the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, aims to turn this problem into an advantage with the creation of Watson Paths, which utilizes AI to establish more natural interaction between physicians, data and medical records to provide quicker and more accurate diagnoses.