The medical community has rapidly acknowledged the potential advantages of Artificial Intelligence (AI) since its emergence in the 1950s. In 1959, it was determined that machines could interpret symptoms diagnostically. By 1960, physicians projected that computers could significantly augment their cognitive abilities by the year 2000. Availability of data through connected devices, increased storage capacities, enhanced computing are a few enablers of AI adoption across industries, including healthcare. From everyday health apps to high-precision analysis of complex medical scans for early diagnosis, to helping tailor treatment plans, AI is useful in drawing insights from a large amount of clinical data for better disease management, prediction and designing outbreak strategies. Machine learning, which involves fitting models to data and learning through training, is utilised extensively in healthcare, especially in precision medicine.
AI is augmenting our ability to think and take considered action as people and clinicians. This holds the promise of significantly contributing towards transforming India’s healthcare landscape, which remains riddled with historical challenges, even though healthcare has been one of the biggest success stories of our time. The unstoppable forces of changing demographics, such as an ageing population, altered lifestyle and disease patterns, and climate change, are posing challenges that can’t be met through just public-private spending, structural changes in the healthcare network or increasing the number of medical practitioners and allied professionals. Expert use of AI offers us an unparalleled opportunity to surmount challenges both old and new despite increased noise and fear about the machine replacing man across functions.
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He gave the beat to the world
He would pick up the rhythms of each experience of mobility and weave them into his taals. Thus it was that he reflected joy and laughter in rhythmic cycles...such was the magic of Zakir's fingersText and photographs by Raghu Rai
KERALA TOURISM CAMPAIGN, 1989 - TICKETS TO PARADISE
All it took was a catchy tagline-'God's Own Country'-for the world to discover Kerala's wealth of natural beauty. It remains among the best tourism ad campaigns, earning the state a place among top 10 international destinations
SPIRITUALITY - THE GURUS OF COOL
Among the cult Indian gurus, no one had a bigger hold on western minds than 'Osho' Rajneesh. He's also perhaps the role model for the enterprise-building gurus of today
RETAIL SHOPPING - THE MALL MANIA
Shopping malls, a 1990s innovation in India, changed the way the Indian middle class shops. Their success now lies in being 'shoppertainment' destinations, offering something for everyone
CULINARY RENAISSANCE, 1978 - TANDOORI NIGHTS
ITC's Bukhara and Dum Pukht turned the world to tandoori cuisine and had an enormous impact on the F&B industry. Decades on, they are still a pit-stop for celebrities and heads of state visiting Delhi
INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH - REVENGE OF THE NATIVE
Rushdie lit the way but Indian writing in English has taken a life of its own in the past few decades, with translated Indian fiction most recently having its moment in the sun
INDIAN ART - A BRUSH WITH GOLD DUST
The 1990s economic liberalisation came as oxygen, lighting up the Indian art scene. Today, artworks by established masters routinely go for astronomical amounts
FESTIVAL OF INDIA, 1982 - CULTURE CAPITAL
The Festival of India grew into a symbol of our 'soft power', introducing our art and aesthetics to a global audience while also helping rebrand our domestic products
THE INDIPOP TREND - DISCO GOES DESI
For ages, the film song ruled. Nothing else was audible. Then came Nazia, charioteered by Biddu, and Indian ears went into a pleasant madness. Literally, Disco Deewane. A whole genre was born
SHOLAY 1975 - THE BIRTH OF THE FANDEMIC
India had seen hits before. But Sholay seared into its collective psyche like a badland bullet. The effect was on a scale never seen before- one film creating a new mass folk culture. And a trail of monster blockbusters that still continues
