India, Nov. 14 -- Artificial intelligence (AI) should be judged by whether it makes medicines faster, cheaper and better, oncologist and author Siddhartha Mukherjee said on Saturday, warning that if it does not, "we have failed the AI revolution".

Mukherjee, co-founder and chief executive of the drug-discovery company Manas AI, opened his talk at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit by noting the widespread concern over AI's rapid rise. Its capacity to produce transformative medicine, he said, was the one feature that could offset that concern, and if AI failed there, doubts about its value would return. He returned to the point at the end of his talk: "If it's not true that medicines become faster, cheaper, better, then we have failed ...