AI and you

Artificial intelligence, better known by its initialism AI, is a major part of the technological zeitgeist. Sometimes referred to as machine learning, it is defined as any machine or software that can improve itself by perceiving its environment and changing behaviours to better suit its goals. The technology has many uses, from the Siri and Alexa voice assistants many of us will be familiar with to self-driving cars, music production and financial trading.

There are a large variety of medical uses for the technology too and more research is being done every day; in the last year more than 9,000 papers concerning AI have been published on the medical publishing site PubMed. AI has the potential to revolutionise the field of medicine, especially in the areas of image analysis, mining medical records, designing treatments and streamlining practises.