Dr. Juan LaVista Felez discovered his love for technology when he was eight years old. He grew up on a farm in Uruguay, but taught himself to code when his mother bought him a computer.
La Vista Ferrez now strives to make an impact on the world as Vice President and Chief Data Scientist of the Microsoft AI for Good Lab, where he collaborates with other scientists and researchers to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges. Resolved. They use artificial intelligence and machine learning to address health, environmental, humanitarian, accessibility and cultural heritage issues.
“[AI] It makes people much more productive. One other area that I find surprising is that he has less than 0.5% of people in the world who know how to code,” he told Yahoo News.
Writing code requires knowing programming languages such as Python, C, and Pascal, and that takes a lot of effort. But now, thanks to these massive language models, [like ChatGPT], you will be able to write a significant part of your coding in English and translate it into coding. ”
Others have expressed concerns about AI in relation to its potential for plagiarism, theft, job exclusion, or even more sinister possibilities to completely threaten human life. Hollywood movies are useless.
But there are several ways AI is currently helping humanity.
Healthcare and disease detection
AI can help doctors advance their fight against breast cancer.
“A major benefit of AI at this point is that mammograms are read faster, allowing radiologists to accurately view more mammograms in a given period of time,” says Evelyn H. Lauder-Brest of Medical. Director, Larry Norton, Ph.D. The New York City Cancer Center told partners on “Good Morning America” in March:
The report cites studies that estimate that about 1 in 8 breast cancers are missed by mammography, and AI could help reduce that rate.
Breast cancer detection is not the only way AI will enhance healthcare.
Dhonoush Zonubi discovered his passion when he first encountered the field of ultrasound medical imaging. She lights up when she talks about how it has changed her healthcare.
She eventually founded Medo.ai. The company is building an artificial intelligence paired with an ultrasound device to assist users in their ability to detect common and critical conditions. The company was acquired by Exo, a company focused on making AI-assisted point-of-care ultrasound available everywhere, especially in rural areas.
“Medical imaging is really the most important advancement in medicine since the 20th century, so this is absolutely powerful,” she said. “I still remember the first time I read a book.” [a World Health Organization] Two-thirds of the world’s population reports no access to medical imaging at all. ”
Zonoobi recently participated in a study evaluating the feasibility of using AI and point-of-care ultrasound to screen for infantile hip dysplasia (DDH). About 1 in 100 infants require treatment for DDH.
“If you catch it when the baby is young, it’s very easy to treat. Just put the baby in a harness and the hip will correct itself,” she says. Dysplasia will disappear. ”
AI is also groundbreaking in streamlining doctor visits and simplifying data collection.
The New York Times recently featured Dr. Matthew Hitchcock, a Family Physician in Chattanooga, Tennessee, who introduced an AI helper.
Hitchcock said the technology records patient visits on smartphones and organizes them into treatment plans and bills. He easily edits his AI-generated content to document daily patient visits in about 20 minutes. It would normally take him two hours to enter a medical note.
ChatGPT and generated AI
ChatGPT, an AI chatbot created by OpenAI, went viral after its release in November 2022, sparking a new wave of AI chatter.
This technology is a natural language processing system that can imitate human conversation. As Lavista Ferres pointed out, you can talk to someone about just about anything, help with emails, essays, code, and more. You can write a book, compose music or graphic his art in minutes or even seconds. Anyone can use it for free.
“I was fortunate enough to learn English at a young age, but it is still difficult to write in English. It takes time” a lot of effort. Thanks to the fact that today we have these large language models, [like ChatGPT], much easier to express my thoughts in English. ”
Other systems comparable to ChatGPT include Google’s Bard, Microsoft’s Bing AI Chat, and ChatSonic.
language
When Steve Toye was 15, he struggled with French in school. He said his paternal grandmother told him, Let him get a girlfriend who can speak the language,” says Toy, adding, “My 15-year-old head thought: Wait, does my grandmother know what sex is like? What? is happening?”
Languages have become his passion, and that passion has landed him the CEO of language learning app Memrise. Now he uses his AI, such as Membot, to help others learn new languages.
“So we use these large-scale language models to enable conversations without the need for human judgment,” he said. “Then you type or speak and you get a response from the bot that allows you to have a conversation without the need for human judgment.Do you understand?”
Memrise also has a database of videos that uses AI to analyze your level of knowledge of the language and match you with the right educational material.
sustainability
For 20 years, Steve Brumby has focused on building living maps of the world that are inherently continuously updating. During the pandemic, he co-founded Impact Observatory, a company that provides on-demand AI-powered data through maps to help governments, industries and markets with risk analysis, climate change mitigation and more.
“We can now propose that any country, state or municipality in the world should be able to have a map of their own country similar to the official map of the United States.” , you get updates multiple times a year.”
The most updated map of the United States is the 2019 edition, which is important because the United States is the country with the most advanced cartography, he said. This poses great challenges for development and solving land conservation issues. The map is color-coded to show categories that indicate, for example, high and low building density areas, crop areas, sparse and densely wooded areas, rangelands, and so on.
“We have built an AI that can create maps from satellite imagery, and we have shown that it can actually do this faster than the satellite can collect new imagery,” Brumby added. “It’s important for maintaining the health and biodiversity of the entire state.”
