AI versus doctors [News]

In recent years, artificial intelligence has proven to be extremely good at understanding natural language (remember when IBM Watson beat its human competitors on the "Jeopardy!" TV game show?) and categorizing images (which is how Facebook now recognizes all your friends). It didn't take long for AI researchers to apply those special skills to medicine, creating experimental AI systems that can read through the electronic health records of thousands of patients, digest the 27 million articles currently in the medical literature, and find subtle patterns in medical images.