Artificial intelligence has the potential to "prevent disease", an expert has said. Dr Dominic King, UK lead at Google Health, said such technology could allow health problems to be predicted rather than detected. Speaking at the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences' Healthy Ageing conference, he added that AI was no substitute for exercising and not smoking. Dr King continued: "Artificial intelligence has, I think, the potential to prevent disease. "I do think there's a real role for these approaches to allow us to predict, rather than detect health problems.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are being heralded as a way to solve a wide range of problems in different industries and applications, such as reducing street traffic, improving online shopping, making life easier with voice-activated digital assistants, and more. The cybersecurity industry is no different. However, we need to be careful of the "hype" around AI and ML. And there is a lot of hype out there! A simple Google search of the term "artificial intelligence" yields about 630 million results, and AI continues to dominate the headlines and has even made its way into mainstream TV advertising.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are being heralded as a way to solve a wide range of problems in different industries and applications, such as reducing street traffic, improving online shopping, making life easier with voice-activated digital assistants, and more. The cybersecurity industry is no different. However, we need to be careful of the "hype" around AI and ML. And there is a lot of hype out there! A simple Google search of the term "artificial intelligence" yields about 630 million results, and AI continues to dominate the headlines and has even made its way into mainstream TV advertising.

First IBM's Watson supercomputer took on Jeopardy and now it's ready to do your taxes. Or, so the TV ads running in heavy rotation these days would have you believe. Fact is, folks walking into their local tax preparer's office will not be handing over their W-2s to R2-D2 anytime soon. However, H&R Block's much-hyped partnership with IBM has shed some light on what the real role of artificial intelligence will be in the business world. In a nutshell, H&R Block has installed computer screens on its preparers' desks that are powered by IBM Watson.