I'm chatting to my doctor. My doctor is a robot. I'm asking it, through my smartphone, about the pain in my ankles. I happen to know that it's Achilles tendinopathy - inflammation of the tendons resulting from too much hard running - but will the robot correctly diagnose this? In other words, is artificial intelligence - computer systems that can recreate and often improve on human decision-making, known as AI - really going to take over medicine, as many experts claim?