‘Medicine most exciting new market for AI’: Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman

The next major frontier for artificial intelligence will be medicine, according to Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI. He believes AI could dramatically improve access to high-quality healthcare while also reducing costs.

Speaking about the future of AI-powered healthcare, Suleyman said medicine is the biggest opportunity for the technology. “I think by far the most exciting new market is medicine,” he said.

Suleyman also mentioned that healthcare

has become one of the most common uses of artificial intelligence, with around 40% of the questions people ask AI every week related to health.

“About 40% of our queries each week are health-related. Millions of people a day are asking health-related queries,” he added.

Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, says the biggest new market in AI is medicine, and the gap between the best and worst care is about to collapse to 20 bucks a month.

“I think by far the most exciting new market is medicine.”

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He explained that there is a huge difference in the quality of healthcare people receive today. Some people have access to the best hospitals and doctors, while others struggle to find specialists or afford treatment. According to Suleyman, this gap exists even in the United States and is even bigger in many other parts of the world.

“The quality difference between the top 10% and the bottom 10%, even in the United States, let alone the rest of the world, is unbelievable. The gulf is probably an order of magnitude,” he said.

Suleyman believes AI narrow the gap between the world’s best and worst medical care to as little as “$20 (approx. ₹1,900) a month.” He argued that AI could make expert-level medical advice and support widely available.

He called these future systems ‘medical superintelligence’ and said they could give people medical guidance similar to what they might receive from top healthcare experts. “Everybody is going to have access to medical superintelligence, and it will cost 20 bucks a month. It is going to be remarkably cheap,” he added.

AI does not generate answers on its own, Suleyman added. Instead, it supports its responses with citations from trusted medical sources, including Harvard Medical School, he added.

“We ground the answers in citations from Harvard Medical, the most respected health institution,” he said.

(Edited by : Sudarsanan Mani)