State of Artificial Intelligence in Retinal Diseases

Artificial Intelligence in the last 5 years, seems to have become a buzzword across all industries in the pursuit of increased efficiency. Its use has transcended cultural and industrial boundaries, an represents a new frontier within technology that can allow for seemingly impossible tasks or problems to now be solved with a fraction of the manpower. There is no generally accepted definition of the concept of AI, however John McCarthy, a computer scientist who coined the term artificial intelligence in the famous Dartmouth Conference in 1956, regarded AI as ‘the science and engineering of making machines that are smart.’ Without taking part in the philosophical argument of what constituted true intelligence, it can be broadly defined as the development and simulation of computer systems that mimic human learning, comprehension, problem solving and, potentially, autonomy.