BONUS: Can AI help us live healthier lives?
The Times Tech Podcast

BONUS: Can AI help us live healthier lives?

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 3, 202616 min

This episode of The Times Tech Podcast is in paid partnership with Vitality. AI is already changing medicine. But could it also change the everyday choices we make about our own health? This bonus episode asks whether AI can help shift healthcare from treating illness to prevention – from wearables and personal health data to personalised advice and AI-powered wellbeing tools. With Professor Sébastien Ourselin, Director of the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering at King’s College London, and Emile Stipp, CEO of Vitality AI, we ask whether technology can help u...

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This episode of the Time's Tech podcast is sponsored by KPMG. Katie, we've been tracking the AI surge for a while, but some of the latest data is pretty striking. It is. KPMG's latest quarterly AI polls suggest that seven in 10 UK business leaders still see AI as a top investment priority, even if the economy slows down in the next year.

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But turning that investment into tangible value is another question. And so a lot of organizations are still figuring out how to move from endless AI pilots to something that works across the business. KPMG's focus is on that gap, helping organizations scale from the pilot phase to AI-powered transformation that they can trust. To find out more about how KPMG can help your organization make the difference, you can visit kpmg.co.uk forward slash AI.

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This episode of the Times Tech podcast is sponsored by ServiceNow. Danny, one thing we keep hearing from business leaders right now is AI sounds great, but how do you actually make it work inside a company? Exactly, because most organizations aren't neat, shiny systems, they're layers of software,

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