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Published: 2016-05-18
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LkbUxqGTfo
so people often ask me what I do or to explain what I do and in my mom's eyes we like eleventh out eleventh but I could tell them as a joke that create artificial intelligence %HESITATION really it's kind of artificially stupid %HESITATION and it's true %HESITATION a new mission numerous examples for IBM's Watson on jeopardy to walking robots that foiled by pop tarts the field of
AI is replete examples of a I gone wrong and you don't have to work in the field of AI for very long to develop a deep appreciation and respect for that which is natural intelligence beauty of it clicks the really is a remarkable thing that we all carry around in our heads right but no problem that we have is that the alien analytics tools that were
building think a different way people to there's a disconnect between the A. I. toes were creating in a way that people approach the world a good example of this is driving a car something by most people in this room experience dealing so imagine that you're in your car and your driving down the road I and you come up to an intersection and you decide you want
to make a right turn you go through that mental decision now you go through the physical process purring we'll and the car starts to turn it all suddenly pedestrian crosses the street in finance now you just keep doing what you're doing right hal right into them hopefully some guys laughable to loudly %HESITATION no you change what you're going so maybe changer turning radius upon doing so
you may find an entirely new obstacle in your way may be a tree or a fire hydrants or maybe a parked car so you have to change what you're going to do again right is whole sequence of events full sequence of decisions that you have to navigate in order to act intelligently in the world based on that probability of that sequence you may not may choose
not to %HESITATION turn of that particular intersection alright not trafficking prior knowledge of the number pedestrians make sure to take an entirely different route it's not about whether turning at that particular intersection is good or bad but sequences at the same for understanding the way the world changes over time not understanding how the things we do now the consequences thereof change what we can do in
the future in order to best assist those are a I told him to reflect that top it's not simply about option a versus option be or extreme next better than treatment why but sequences of decision understanding the way the world changes over time being able to adapt to that in real time just like you're driving a car just like Google maps works me the great advances
human history and largely been about taking previously seem to be complex and making it simple so a good example of this keeping with our fame a car right Sibly your car works with the engine works is based on something called the lagrange equations it's the Matthew see there up on the board and I guarantee auto mechanic who works on your car probably has no idea what
any of that means Stewart on car why taking the complexity and we've made it simple apartment allies that we turn into components can be plugged together taking part can be used to build create and in the same vein and healthcare and health care and I'm health analytics we often have these models these algorithms and maybe tell us something about the wait for a clinical processes work
or prognosis of various treatments and a lot of times we get lost the elegance of the mask get lost in the art solving the problem without ever really solving the problem but if we can take these models parse out from them patterns the towers about the way the world changes over time but help patients change over time and we can push those patterns simple interfaces let
patients and providers see what to expect in the future findings that with real patients that we can both improve the quality of healthcare simultaneously reducing the cost in other words we can make health care better and we can do it more cheaply at the same all by understanding the way the world changes over time the building tools that reflect that not surprisingly in other fields people
come along I've taken what previously seem to be complex and he made it simple all but one of the critical importance time and understanding those phenomena and also build robots that some it's not just about making better decisions it's also about having better information in newer technologies like socially assistant robots two furry cuddly robots essentially walking sensor suite that we can put into people's homes come
equipped with sensors for light sound and motion and they can click that information and interactive way an engaging way right portals people's everyday health the activity levels sleep patterns diet what's actually going on with people the database they basis in real time all without retrofitting people's homes sensors or other smart home technologies all by giving people something they play with click really is health is not
something happens to three come here when shopping doctors something happens every day it's happening right now accumulation of choices accumulation of lifestyle so we have a snapshot of that you tons a year isn't good enough may be able to understand things change over time Hoth changes over time patients change over time in real time be able to feed that information back Clint critical decision makers so
that they can do what they do better so if one civilization has largely been about taking the things that we previously had to do physically or in our minds pushing those tools in our environment bring us up to focus on higher level aspects the task even the first act of chiseling something stone was really an act cognitive offload right I don't remember it eroded them right
there not rock and things like no pats calculators and computers abolish spin continuing chapters in that story story mankind the story of human civilization some people fear a I if you're going to a place people force us to do certain things and dear Vinod Khosla talking about real by doctors and Eric Topol talking about cyber commissions the reality is a I was just another chapter in
that story story mankind story of civilization it's all about helping us do what we do better no I remember of my grandparents got older and they got sicker as most of the other one to do when my grandpa's had hard issues and another one had Alzheimer's and I remember you know you take them to the doctor's office and the doctor would tell you to do this
or that and then it's enjoying away and you go home any hope for maybe pray but it would work you can really know maybe work for sixty percent of people but maybe one work for you and it was scary being a patient in our healthcare system is often a very scary proposition her patience and love ones like and the reality is that we know more about
your car right via Hoover our table reservation via table me are you which most likely to buy on Amazon than we do about with the treatment of been prescribed is actually going to work that's not good enough we can do better we should do better for me I was not simply about creating cars that drive themselves or will by doctors to diagnose it's about empowering people
