India, Sept. 25 -- Imagine your doctor handing you a printout that reads like a weather forecast: 70% chance of diabetes by 2034, scattered heart problems in your late fifties, with a high-pressure front of hypertension moving in around age 45.

The genomics revolution promised personalised medicine. Artificial intelligence brings us closer to it. A new study in Nature describes an artificial intelligence system that helps forecast disease like systems currently predict the weather. But instead of telling you there's a 70% chance of rain on Saturday, it can tell you there's a 70% chance of developing diabetes, cancer, or heart disease in the next decade.

The system, called Delphi-2M, represents the most ambitious attempt yet to use gener...