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Artificial Intelligence will change humanity | Xavier Vasques | TEDxHotelschoolTheHague


good afternoon
RAF good world alright so I will what I
want to do is to deliver you a message
and the message is artificial
intelligence will improve humanity and
human rights this is my main message
artificial intelligence is no more
considered science fiction and the main
reason for this shift from various AI
research disciplines into an our way of
applied cognitive businesses is due to
data explosion technology and hardware
improvements so hey I an increasingly
complex algorithms currently influence
our lives or a civilization more than
ever believe me and I’m convinced that
it will change the humanity so have
different options for you to introduce
you to AI and how it will change
humanity option number one it’s by
showing images like this so I see some
smiles you should be very afraid
you’re not pleased be afraid so this is
science fiction definitely option number
2 I can show images like this and I can
tell you a story a beautiful story and
say to you look at the robots they look
nice they are well-designed they have
beautiful eyes they are beautiful but
what are the real intention
you should be afraid so this is
definitely science fiction and I don’t
know why but we like these stories look
at the newspapers every day some bad
news
conflicts I put disease the cow but you
in a room and I think 99.9% of these
people in this world they want a better
world they want to improve rights in the
workplace they want to have access to
health care they want to improve
education economic social cultural
rights as well no no an AI will help us
with that they will help us in our jobs
the way we do tasks but most important
they will allow us to focus on what
really matters for us human
relationships human experiences it will
give us the time and freedom to develop
our creativity and when I speak about
human experiences end-user experiences
we can speak about one of the most
powerful concept that matmata Gandhi had
talked about the concept of antio daya
which means focusing on the benefits to
the very last person in a line or a
society when you make a decision when
you must make a decision what will be
the impact of this decision on the very
last person and our decisions regarding
AI will impact positively the end user
a boy in hospital a girl at school how
it will impact so I will give you a
personal example but just before that
let me define what is a human experience
is this a human experience yes
no thank you no this is a technology to
make coffee yeah almost
ego this is a human experience the
pleasure to drink coffee
it’s not exactly the same so I can take
a coffee pot and throw it to you or even
fight with the coffee pot but no the
technology is to make coffee and then
the human experience is to drink the
coffee and the pleasure to drink coffee
is this human experience right this is
clearly not a human experience and
specifically when you have to treat
pediatric patients it’s art it’s a
technology to brain to make images this
is a human experience and specifically
for pediatric patients and we can apply
all this concept in many industries so
for example if you take the dark food
industry they have cutting edge R&D
beautiful technology and they are doing
very well providing good food with all
the necessary vitamins for the dog but
at the end of the day is the hand user
happy so now imagine all the
opportunities we have if we have a
technology that can interact with the
end user through natural language a
technology that can understand people
understand the end user and transform
human experience and this is exactly
what AI do so–here Mei is my personal
experience she’s my wife so it’s really
personal I’m very proud of my wife she’s
really an amazing girl and I will tell
you why we have been a couple since many
years 11 years
we have a wonderful daughter seven years
old but she has a problem she needs
artificial intelligence so just before I
will stop you just before you might
think something wrong
she doesn’t need artificial intelligence
to replace me not yet good points so far
so good no she needs artificial for one
specific point
she’s neurologist and she in a
neurosurgery department in the South of
France in a French hospital and she is
dealing with pediatric and adult
patients with movement disorders and
specifically this is that called
dystonia dystonia is a neurological
disorder in which patients often have
continuous pain cramping relentless
muscle spasm due to involuntary muscle
movements it’s very tough and our
disease and she is the most dedicated
person I know in this world she wake up
very early in the morning she come back
late at all with one single objective is
to improve the quality of life of our
patients and fight this disease every
day and the problem is that she has to
deal with tons of information a huge
amount of information she has to deal
with brain images clinical records
biology call records feedback from
patients feedback from colleagues to
read medical books alone I don’t know if
you have seen des at the size of medical
books research papers everything it’s a
huge amount of information she and she
spends a lot of time doing this
she’s also neuroscientist so she’s
trying to understand the mechanism of
action of of this disease so she has to
read a lot of paper so has a human she
is limiting in processing all
this information let me give you another
example 160,000 research publications
are published each year related to
cancer
if you take 15 minutes to read one paper
you will need around 40,000 hours per
year to read these papers just to know
we only have less than 9,000 hours per
year
can you imagine the amount of
information and this is just one area so
she has to deal with a lot of
information and now we have gene
sequencing we have wearable devices
clinical trials new drugs millions and
millions of images so she really needs a
technology that can analyze this kind of
of of unstructured data so this is a day
where we can offer access to LCL and to
knowledge and cognitive system can be
trained by the best doctors and can
process like that tons of information
that came proof research they can find
new treatments they can identify
proteins and genes related to cancer
they can find new ways to treat patients
but how it works
traditional computing is programmed it’s
logic based logic driven rule-based it’s
dependent on structured data meaning
like two dimensional tables where as
artificial intelligence is probabilistic
so it means that it can understand
natural language put it on context
interpret interact with humans meaning
reading a research paper reading a book
they can see and it’s exactly what we
call unstructured data images videos and
the same read them understand them and
provide hypothesis interpretation and
they can hear sounds so they can unlock
meaning because they can reason through
it and giving us new insights to
consider they are self learning it’s
powerful self learning they learn
continually they can challenge our
expertise so we can take more informed
actions and you know what certain AI
algorithms are already surpassed experts
in different fields already but it
doesn’t mean that we will replace them
not at all
we will provide them new insights new
information to take into account and to
focus on what really mattered the
patient and the relationship we can
develop with the patient and a strong
follow-up and a personalized treatment
this is what we speak about
and we can provide access to else care
to anybody in the world you imagine this
to anybody in the world regardless the
location we can access remotely to this
knowledge we can give access to
knowledge and what is the difference
between artificial intelligence and the
human brain because this is often a
question
artificial intelligence is machine
learning deep learning detect weak
signals finding models finding
information read natural language it’s
unlimited capacity and what is the human
brain common sense morals dilemma
compassion dream imagination ethic love
friendship this is the human brain and
this is where a high can help us in
improving humanity
and by the way it will help my wife to
take into account all the information
she has and better treat the patient and
the question is do we want our physician
to take advantage of this information to
help us stay healthy or deal with
illnesses Jennifer is yes I was I would
be very surprised if someone said no no
I don’t know I don’t care now we want we
want to have access to health care and
we can provide this to the world so what
about the future there is a possibility
of a different world a world with
principles and ethical development and
use of AI a lot of company already has
taken a clear position and governments
for ethical and data protection I am
working for one of them and it’s a
future where the innermost power of
potential of AI is designed for the good
of humanity it’s a future where
innovators across the world can leverage
this technology to develop application
for the good of humanity in short it’s a
technology in which human rights is the
core design of ai ai is built by humans
and they are shaped by humans values the
code inside and artificial intelligence
is the human opinion it’s shaped by
humans and we can do even more than that
when States signed the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 they
were not thinking only on the world they
lived
today they were thinking about the
future a world where that stands DUP for
and protect human beings dignity and
this is where we are today we have to
challenge yourself to make the right
decisions about artificial intelligence
and leverage this technology to give
access to health care to knowledge to
education and coming back to Gandhi
let’s focus on the very last user the
end user
maite my wife will have time to process
all this data and to focus on the
patient and by the way my husband
experience will be improved she will
come back earlier at all so my single
message here is that we have the
opportunity and choice to improve
humanity and human rights with
artificial intelligence thank you very
much
you
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