Alexa, Cure My Hives: When AI Outsmarts the NHS and Your GP’s Still on Hold

While doctors scratch their heads and refer you to the next specialist, a chatbot just told Dave to drink nettle tea; and now he’s eating cheese again.

Not long ago, I read an article about a grown man crying over a tomato. It’s wasn’t a romantic novel. Not a sob story about farmers or Brexit. No. This was Dave. A middle-aged man who, thanks to an obscure histamine intolerance, had spent the better part of a year avoiding tomatoes, strawberries and anything that didn’t taste like damp cardboard.

For mon…