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How Artificial Vision can Improve Billions of Lives | ZIv Aviram | TEDxSaoPauloSalon


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sometimes big things happen by chance a
result of circumstances and their impact
is realized only in retrospect this is
what happened to us when we founded our
first company mobile ID so in 1998 my
partner professional Joshua gave a
lecture at Toyota my partner is one of
the leading scientists in the world in
computer vision and during the lecture
one of the engineers asked him tell me
professor
is it possible to detect vehicle based
on two cameras and he intuitively said
yes but right two cameras a driver can
drive with one eye I believe it can be
done with one camera it just continued
with the lecturer without understanding
back then that he laid a solution to one
of the epidemics of the modern world
which is car accidents after this
lecture we indeed founded mobile I it
was 20 years ago and today mobile I is
the leading supplier in the field that
called ADA’s advanced driver assistance
systems and we are pioneering today the
autonomous driving so with mobile
technology we have the potential to save
many millions of lives and to prevent
hundreds of millions of injuries and all
that based on artificial intelligence
and with our second company orchim which
we founded eight years ago we believe we
can improve lives of more than a billion
people also harnessing artificial
intelligence so during this show I would
like to show you how artificial
intelligence can empower our lives
and benefit humanity on a big scale let
me stop his mobile I imagine a small
camera that situated behind the rear
view mirror looking forward and
constantly analyzing the scene in front
of you like a third eye when I say
analyzing the scene it means that we can
understand and detect vehicles in front
of us
pedestrians traffic signs traffic lights
lane marks the green carpet that you see
is a free space in front of the vehicle
more than 95% of the automakers adapted
this technology majority of the
automakers and mobilize today preparing
dot on is driving which is not going to
be just with one camera but it’s going
to be multiple cameras around the
vehicle 360 degrees with additional
sensors like radar leader and other
sensors so our life is about to change
with introduction of autonomous vehicle
so if it’s going to change
let’s take a peek into the future just
to see some of the element is going to
change I believe that the change in our
life with introduction of autonomous
vehicle is going to be in every aspect
of our daily life economically
personally demographically socially you
name it it will start with chef mobility
or current demand regulators will give a
geofence area within the cities where
autonomous driving will be allowed and
we the users will just order a car from
A to B the car will stop near us will
take us to public transportation in a
very effective way and when we get out
of the public transportation other car
will wait for us so all the ride will be
very efficient and we will use paratus
foundation much more than we used today
because it’s going to be so efficient
there’s going to be no logic to own a
car within
those cities after all the used car
maybe four percent of our time most of
the time it sits in a parking lot but
autonomous vehicle the utility will be
close to 98% so the number of cars will
dropped some claim to have and some
claim to quarter so the city’s will look
completely differently if the commute
and the ride is going to be cheaper and
more effective and we are not going to
wait to waste our time by the way we are
going to save four hundred billion
driving hours instead of driving we can
do in the car
whatever we do at home or at work so
because we’re not wasting time we will
start to see demographical change people
will leave the centres of the city and
go back to suburbia but the most
important element of it that we will
reach
eventually the topia of safe roads
without car accidents another great
example of how artificial intelligence
can benefit humanity is our second
company or come in 2010
I remember my partner enter to my room
and said the technology is finally
mature enough and I said mature enough
for what
and only that he told me the story that
when he completed his PhD in brain and
cognitive sciences his aunt
congratulated him and said great now can
fix my poor vision he smiled
said yes but I’m not this kind of doctor
he moved on but never forget this
episode it was 30 years ago around 2010
the micro processors grew stronger the
algorithms became sophisticated enough
allowing technology to reach the
maturity on a
human level so we developed an or come
this small device this is the device it
snaps on a glass frame very simply like
this so there is a camera in front and
speaker at the other side it works
offline not connected to internet so the
privacy is fully kept and works
immediately and this device is truly
ready ready finds everything you know
about artificial vision it is considered
the most sophisticated wearable device
today in the world so let’s look at a
day in the life of a me it’s a new day
the Sun rises the city is waking up the
streets come alive and so does Amy Amy
like all of us
doesn’t like to get up but she brushes
her teeth gets ready and heads out to
start today
on Amy’s way to the coffee shop she
stops at the bookstore greater than
myself and realizes she has to run time
is 8:15 a.m. 10:00 Park Street believe
in yourself II at the coffee shop amy
gets comfortable hot beverages she
orders coffee and a snack then she meets
Mike my and early Ellie and someone new
a young man is in front of you cute but
Amy you came to the coffee shop to get
some work done
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after finishing some work
Amy stops at the grocery store cereal
honey bunches soy milk and dill pickles
pickles now maybe a quick stop at her
favorite shop for a little something
because you deserve that blue pink $100
what Amy finally arrives back home now
she can relax take off her glasses sit
this is the challenging reality of over
350 million partially sighted and blind
people in organ technology based on the
fish intelligence can improve their
daily activity substantially when the
same proof in the morning when you wake
up you want to match your clothing so
we’ll tell you what is the colors when
you walk down the street we’ll help you
with the orientation with street signs
while shopping will identify millions of
products their prices and description on
the product at the register will help
you with the money notes and credit
cards will tell you the number of the
bus and train that you are waiting for
and big part of our life is socializing
so we’ll recognize faces of your close
people but maybe the most important
feature is capability to read you know
when we started the company we
interviewed hundreds of potential users
to understand what is their needs I
start intuitively that being independent
will be the primary need surprisingly to
me more than 90% said we want the
ability to read you know not in order to
understand it I did small experiment on
myself I prevented myself from reading
for one day after an hour understood how
challenging our life if we cannot read I
suggested to do it for five minutes you
understand all our world compose of
written material on a smartphone
computers documents street signs
newspaper everywhere around us but if
this device and this technology capable
to read we can reach additional segments
in the world for
example dyslexic people there are 10 to
15% of our population are dyslexic we’re
3 to 5 percent our severe dyslexia or
people with disorder like aphasia
tens of millions but maybe the biggest
segment that this technology can help
his people was reading fatigue like
senior citizens they still can read but
tired very quickly or professionals that
read a lot during the day like doctors
lawyers of students so we can boost
their capability to read during the day
so if you combine all of these
populations together it adds up to more
than a billion potential users that can
use this technology from people who are
partially sighted and blind we are not
just settling to meet their needs big go
beyond their independence we give them
value that empowers them and rest of our
users this kind of technology is an
uplift and forceful amplifier to their
daily activity I would like to invite a
very special girl Julia that came
specially to this event from Porto
Alegre all the way and I want to ask her
how it changed her life
Julia please come so for how long are
you using our device it was ooh a walk
user care a sink amis and how did it
change your life tell us your experience
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I see that you brought a book with you
this is the book you are reading can you
we’ll continue to read page after page
thank you very much Julia I open my
presentation with the realization that
artificial intelligence can empower our
life and benefit humanity on a big scale
both companies mobula
and orcam are great example of that but
I want to leave you breathe a
philosophical question as a human being
are we really ready for this change my
personal feeling is that we still have a
long way to go the number of casualties
caused by human error is outrageous
for example Blizzard drivers responsible
for close to 95% of car accidents and
the numbers are staggering
1.5 million fatalities and on top of it
50 million are injured and we got off we
kind of got used to it but if it caused
by robotic arm it’s unacceptable by the
society so we apply double standard I
think it’s about time to embrace
technology with more confident and then
we can enjoy the benefits of artificial
intelligence and on a personal level
I feel privileged grab this opportunity
to take part in this change in influence
life of so many people thank you [Applause]
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