Artificial Intelligence : a vision of the future

One of the creators of Siri described how artificial intelligence can improve our lives.

Tom Gruber shared his vision of the future, in which artificial intelligence will expand our capabilities and interact with us.

I think the AI's goal is to give the person the intelligence of the machine. After all, when machines become smarter, we also become smarter.

Tom Gruber

Virtual assistants

Today, virtual smart assistants are a common phenomenon, they are original intermediaries between a person and an artificial intelligence. For most of us, this technology just makes life a bit easier. But for people with disabilities, it becomes a salvation from loneliness, helping them communicate and maintain relationships with other people.

Diagnosis of cancer

When the doctor suspects the patient of cancer, he sends tissue samples to the analysis of the pathologist, who examines them under a microscope. Pathologists for the day see hundreds of samples, millions of cells. To facilitate their work, researchers created an experimental program-classifier with artificial intelligence. She looks through the images of the samples and determines the presence of cancer cells. The program worked well, but still could not replace a person.

But when the efforts of man and AI combined, the accuracy of diagnosis reached 99.5%. So it was possible to exclude 85% of errors that the pathologist would allow, working aloneDeep Learning for Identifying Metastatic Breast Cancer. . It turned out that people better identify false results, and the program better identifies hard-to-recognize cases. But only teamwork helped to make a breakthrough.

Design

Imagine that you are an engineer who needs to create a new model of a drone. You open the CAD program, define the form and materials, and then analyze the characteristics. So you get one model. And AI from the same data will generate thousands of models.

This approach will dramatically change the design. A person will only have to say what the model should do, and the machine will provide options. Then the engineer, relying on his experience and knowledge, will choose one most suitable option.

Improvement of cognitive abilities

Take at least a memory. This is the basis of human intelligence, but how imperfect it is! We forget details, places, names. With age, memory only worsens.

But what if we had a memory like a computer? What if we could remember every person we met during our lives, his name, hobbies, what we talked about, when we last saw each other? Of course, for most of us this extended memory will not bring much benefit. But it can change the lives of millions of people with Alzheimer's disease and dementia who, because of memory problems, live in complete isolation.

And what if we memorized everything that we read and listen to? Then with the help of AI we would extract the necessary information from memory, having only the slightest clue, and with ease would notice the connections between different ideas.

We could remember the consequences of each eaten product and every medicine taken. We would collect and analyze data on our health. Imagine how this would change the treatment of allergies and chronic diseases.

We can choose how AI will enter our lives: it automates our jobs and replaces us or will work together with us, expanding our capabilities.

Tom Gruber

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