here in the uk, in the future ai could help photo which is the focus of google‘s deepmind. college of radiologists says 99% of hospitals are struggling to keep up with demand, and the uk has the third lowest numbers of specialists who can interpret scans in europe. seven per 100,000 people. this large amount of data is overwhelming a health service stretched to the limit. if you can use algorithms or machine learning or artificial intelligence to set an alert for you to trigger to say something has happened, you need to go and see this, this is urgent and you need to deal with that, in the next hour or so, when you may have not known about that. so i think it will improve quality of care and actually improve equity across the system. one of the first areas where the nhs is testing artificial intelligence is at moorfields, one of the busiest eye hospitals in the world. deepmind is applying the same machinery technology behind its winning alpha go computer programme. it beat the world's best human player by completing tens of thousands of positions per second. we started deep

we started deepmind to develop general—purpose learning algorithms and use those tools and systems tobetter place. it was obvious to us a few years ago that there is a massive opportunity to deliver really meaningful and proved benefits to many patients and people across the world using our sort of techniques to try to improve the way we diagnose and treat patients at risk of all sorts of diseases. the moorfields hospital research is using scans from this 0ct, or optical coherence tomography machine, which creates a 3—dimensional retinal image. it is used to diagnose diseases like age—related macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy, two leading causes of sight loss. deepmind is trying to develop a computer algorithm which will identify scans of concern. 0ct scans were chosen because of the high rate of information included in them and the way they can be broken down into pixels showing areas where damage has occurred. i was particularly attracted to speaking to deepmind because i thought their algorithms would have the best ability to deal with 3—d imaging of an extremely high