Robot doctors and oenologists

Is there a way to predict the quality of the wine from this year's grape harvest? Can we know what a court will decide months before its final ruling? Can we help prevent cardiovascular disease in the future? Or, even, can we predict the weather using historical meteorological data? Artificial intelligence is here to provide a positive answer to all these diverse questions.

How AI can be applied and what changes it may bring to our daily lives and to every field of the sciences is set to be discussed by Dimitris Bertsimas, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at an event organized by the Hellenic Institute of Advanced Studies (HIAS). Taking place in Athens on July 3-7, the goal is to build bridges between scientists and innovators in the diaspora and in Greece. Bertsimas, however, gave us a small taste of what to expect.

The quality of a wine...