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

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

Tom Gruber

Developer software with artificial intelligence, inventor, one of the founders of the world's first virtual personal assistant Siri.

I think the goal of AI - give a man a machine intelligence. After all, when the machines are getting smarter, we also become more intelligent.

Tom Gruber

Virtual assistants

Today, virtual intelligent assistants - common phenomenon, it is a kind of intermediary between the human and artificial intelligence. For most of us, this technology makes life just a little bit. But for people with disabilities, it becomes an escape from loneliness, helping them to communicate and maintain relationships with other people.

diagnosis of cancer

When the doctor suspects a patient has cancer, he directs tissue samples to a pathologist analysis, which examines them under a microscope. Pathologists per day see hundreds of designs, millions of cells. To facilitate their work, researchers have created a pilot program with the classifier

But when human efforts and AI combined, diagnostic accuracy reached 99.5%. So it managed to eliminate 85% of the errors that physician-pathologist would have made working aloneDeep Learning for Identifying Metastatic Breast Cancer.. It turned out, people are better able to identify false results, and the program determines the best hard recognized cases. But teamwork has helped achieve a breakthrough.

Design

Imagine that you are an engineer, you want to create a new model of the drone. You open the program of computer-aided design, sets of forms and materials, and then analyze the performance. So you get the same model. And the AI ​​of the same data generate thousands of models.

This approach dramatically change the design. A person will only need to say that the model is supposed to do, and the machine will provide options. Then the engineer based on their experience and knowledge, will choose the one most suitable option.

Improvement of cognitive abilities

Take at least memory. This is the basis of human intelligence, but as far as it is imperfect! We forget the details, place names. With age, memory is getting worse.

But what if we had a memory like a computer? What if we could remember every person who met during his life, his name, hobbies, then, what we talked about the last time I saw you last? Of course, most of us this will bring extended memory is not so much good. But it can change the lives of millions of people suffering from Alzheimer's disease and dementia, which are due to problems with memory live in complete isolation.

What if we remembered everything that we read and listen to? Then with the help of AI, we would be removed from the memory of the necessary information, with only the slightest clue, and easily would have noticed the connection between different ideas.

We might remember the consequences resulting eaten each product and each received cure. We would do collect and analyze data about their state of health. Imagine how it would change the treatment of allergies and chronic diseases.

We can choose the AI ​​enters into our lives: automates our jobs and we will replace or will work together with us, extending our capabilities.

Tom Gruber