It feel silly to say that AI is curing cancer. Normally a phrase like that would sinal the apex of the hype cycle but I guess it actually has some meat in this situation. Using AI more like statistical inference to screen for medical conditions or predict treatment could be helpful. I remember Jeremy Howard from fast.ai did that with deep learning to detect things in medical images. Seems like a good thing for CERN to do as long as it works.
There is a venerable pattern in academic circles of branding your research with the language of whatever hype cycle is currently active. The same research can be branded under big data, computer vision, AI, or whatever else the current trends demand.
