Could artificial intelligence help fight blindness? The NHS is collaborating with Google to find out

The NHS is pairing up with Google’s artificially intelligent image software DeepMind for a new medical research partnership that could play a “big role in tackling avoidable sight loss.”
Specialists at the NHS-funded Moorfields Eye Hospital in London will use DeepMind, the internet giant’s machine learning project, to research whether the technology can help detect and prevent eye diseases and blindness.
DeepMind will be applied to one million anonymous eye scans to