Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been redefining society in ways we have never anticipated. Technology is clinging to us in every walk of our lives, right from unlocking our smartphones to our day-to-day activities, online shopping, intelligent car dashboards, autonomous robots and so on. Though the concept of AI was first talked about in the early 1950s, forming a basis for many computer learning and complex decision-making processes, it is only of late, where processing huge amounts of data is required, that this field of technology is picking up pace. What is in the AI basket? AI is not a technology, rather it is a science or field of study.

There is a big role artificial intelligence can play in helping to shape the future of web-driven consumer healthcare and that future is happening now. The ubiquity of artificial intelligence is indisputable. Manifestations of machine learning, deep learning and neural network algorithms are deployed in almost every vertical industry, from equipment asset monitoring to real-time financial services analysis. Nonetheless, the future of these technologies likely depends on their consumerization in the form of mainstream adoption by the general public. It's what artificial intelligence can--and is--doing in the personal, as opposed to professional, lives of users which represents its most exciting developments today.