Lagos, Nigeria
Cyrus Majebi
Co-founder @ TwoCents
Co-founder @ TwoCents
Lagos, Nigeria
Hello Chinasa,
Tell us a bit about the work you do at Apple as a Health Incubation Intern, and about the work you did at Microsoft as a Biological Computation Research Intern.
How advanced is the current state of AI as regards assisting medical practitioners with the diagnosis of infectious diseases? As an example, could cutting-edge AI correctly identify a particular type of skin disease and even proffer treatment just by processing a scanned image?
Lastly, Do you share Elon Musk's concern about "general" or "strong" AI with an open-ended utility function? In your opinion, what is likely to be the first mainstream product powered by "general" or "strong" AI?
Jun 14, 2021 09:18a.m.
Chinasa T. Okolo
Managing Director & Computer Science PhD Student @ The Diasporic Group & Cornell University
New York City, United States
Hi Cyrus, I'm unable to talk much about my work at Apple but I am currently developing new ways to leverage Responsible AI methodologies in health sensing applications. At Microsoft Research, I developed domain-specific computational models for bacterial quorum sensing which is how bacteria communicate with each other.<div><br></div><div>I would say that the current state of AI is pretty advanced with regards to the specific techniques but many of these implementations are not production-level ready or haven't been tested in real-life clinical settings to actually be of any use. Yes, what you described is possible but there still remain many issues with bias in these and other types of applications.</div>
Jun 30, 2021 15:17p.m.
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