Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the world by entering into every sector. The application of AI into health-care is now changing the world as said by Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft in his discussion with Google researchers on Monday about the implementation of artificial-intelligence technology in health care.
Google is trying to merge AI and health-care from a long time. Its researchers have explored incorporating AI algorithms for making predictions based on medical records. They have also tried Verily, another subsidiary of Alphabet alongside Google, to focus mainly on health-care.
Microsoft and Google are archrivals in a number of technical areas, which also include cloud computing as well as artificial intelligence research. And Bill Gates’ visit is a perfect example of how his broad interest trumps the historical rivalries of Microsoft and other tech companies.
A person in the audience at the Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Symposium at Stanford University in California had questioned Bill Gates about how to ensure the ethical operation of AI.
Bill Gates is also a co-chair of the nonprofit Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation is concerned with improving global health among other things. In his speech, Gates talked about the use of AI in various areas such as autonomous vehicles and weapons systems before talking on the use of AI in health-care. Gates said, “In the medical field, you know, we just don’t have doctors. Most people are born and die in Africa without coming near to a doctor”.
“We’re doing a lot of work with analyzing ultrasound, and we can do things like sex-blind the output because we’re not having anybody actually see the image. We can tell you what’s going on without revealing the gender, which is, of course — when you do that, it drives gendercide. And yet, we’re doing the analysis, the medical understanding, in a much deeper way, and that’s an example where it’s all done with a lot of machine learning,” as told by Bill Gates.
“I was meeting with the guys at Google who are helping us with this morning, and there’s some incredible promise in that field, where, in the primary health-care system, the amount of sophistication to do diagnosis and understand, for example, ‘Is this a high-risk pregnancy?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Let’s escalate that person to go to the hospital level,’ even though you couldn’t afford to do that on a widespread basis. So this stuff is going to be very domain-specific,” said Bill Gates.
In his talk on Monday, Gates mentioned his sense of advancements in AI much earlier in his life.
“When I started Microsoft, I literally wrote a note to my parents, and I said, ‘Okay, I may miss a bunch of breakthroughs in AI, and that’ll be what I give up to create this company, but oh, well. Well, for about 20 years, I didn’t miss much. More recently, there’s amazing things going on, and fortunately, Microsoft has gotten to a size that it, along with Google and many others, get to participate.” Google has not yet answered the request for comment on Bill Gates’ visit.
