Bloomberg August 15, 2018
Hi folks, it’s Jeremy from London. There’s no hotter technology right now than artificial intelligence. And one of the areas where people are most hyping its promise is medicine. Hardly a day passes without an announcement about AI software that can read medical imagery better than radiologists, arrive at diagnoses from a description of symptoms better than doctors or scrutinize hospital schedules to slash waiting-room times. This, in turn, has people speculating about the future of human doctors: venture capitalist Vinod Khosla went so far as to claim radiologists would be obsolete by 2022.
Well, on Monday, it was DeepMind’s turn. The AI company, owned by Google parent Alphabet, is best known for AlphaGo, the software that beat the world’s...
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