Artificial intelligence in health care: Have We Made the transition from fiction to reality?

“Man’s reach exceeds his grasp,” a familiar phrase been put to test more often in contemporary world than in the previous. With the advent of modern computational sciences, humans have empowered machines with intimidating intelligence, so much so that the science fictions of yesterdays are palpable realities of present times. Smart homes and office spaces are equipped with devices that could run and function with precision and without human intervention. All this has been made possible by technologies that make use of digitized data, cloud storage, and artificial intelligence (AI). While digitized data and cloud computing have been talked about for a long time, AI surfaced to prominence recently with advent of deep neural networking (DNN) algorithms. The researcher trio of Yoshua Bengio, Geoff Hinton, and Yann LeCun developed the fundamentals of deep learning and neural networking for speech recognition and machine vision. They were awarded the 2018 Turing award, recognized as the “Nobel prize of computing” substantiating the importance of this technology in today’s world.[1]