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Welcome. Science. bring you the latest breakthroughs in science, technology and medicine and that's

with me Chris Smith and with Phil Sansom.

Welcome to a special episode of the show in partnership with Microsoft

unpacking the complex world of AI in health care. I think this is an area where AI stands a really good chance of making quite

dramatic improvements to very large numbers of people's lives. Save lives

and reduce medical complications.

Eating physicians and some of their greatest challenges.

That's a concern when machine learning systems learn the wrong things.

Frankly, revolutionary productivity that we are now starting to see from using these AI approaches

in drug design.

It will replace all manual labor in all research laboratories and then suddenly everyone can collaborate.

AI, artificial intelligence.

For many it's a term straight out of sci-fi,

conjuring up visions of utopias or distopias, from films ranging from the Terminator

to iRobot to, well, the film AI.

But what was previously sci-fi is now closer to reality.

AI technology exists, and there's a brand new frontier where it's being applied to the world of health

care. We're seeing AI helping to diagnose cancer,

AI designing new medicines and even AI predicting a person's medical future.

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