The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution and virtual reality is just beginning and the path ahead has a lot of potential. We are just discovering the true potential that these technologies offer and the industry is trying to catch up.
For Tim Bender, vice president of NVIDIA, we are a few years away from these advances to fully exploit the market, but are already transforming many industries, although at first glance is not perceived. In disciplines such as the automotive industry and medicine already feel these radical changes.
NVIDIA is currently working with the US government on cancer treatments. “We try to develop software and tools and release them for the scientific community and developers to enable research in these areas,” Tim Bender said in an interview.
In one experiment, a group of doctors was given 100 radiographs and asked to identify cancer patients and in 95% of the cases they were successful. When the experiment was repeated, it had the same success rate, but it was not identified in the same cases.
“Human error can be greatly reduced because robots eliminate bias, they have all the information you provide and can more efficiently organize the data than we [humans] can,” he added.
Large-scale data collection and analysis is helping physicians to make better diagnoses and to have tools that allow them to find solutions to diseases that still pose a threat. In addition to cancer, artificial intelligence can help us find cures for diseases such as Zika, HIV and many others that are still incurable.
For Bender, artificial intelligence will also help us in the development of the automotive industry as we approach the overcrowding of autonomous vehicles.
“When the cars were introduced into society, people were shocked that blacksmiths would disappear, but those jobs just evolved and we invented other jobs like auto agencies, marketing and other jobs. So with artificial intelligence will be the same. ”
“AI can provide autonomous vehicles with hundreds of years of driving experience.”
Like medical diagnostics, artificial intelligence will help cars reduce human error and thus make roadways safer in the future. This ideal has become possible with the big data and the evolution of smart cities with the Internet of Things.
Bender sees too much potential in the developments of virtual reality and we still have to explore its full potential. The executive assures that the virtual reality applied in other areas still does not have as much presence, but these developments are already being implemented are simply out of the spotlight.
The Intel technology predicts that the opportunity of the virtual reality market will be 80 billion dollars by 2020 and that by 2025 will amount to about 569 billion dollars.
“I think virtual reality has been much more successful than people know, but it’s not where we’d think it would be. Video games almost always take the headlines, but there are still many restrictions to make it a mass product and that will be solved in the next two years, “Bender said.
“Our new operations center, which will open in the fall, was designed with the help of virtual reality to preview how the experience of our employees would look, how the light entering the building would look, and from there adjust the design to Make it more efficient in energy saving, so that it is a friendly environment for employees and that is why virtual reality is being used in different ways.”
From the field of video games and entertainment, Bender believes that virtual reality must open up and stop being a solitary experience as it is now. NVIDIA vice president believes that, in the future, virtual reality experiences will be communal and users will have the same experience even if they are not in the same place.
The American is sure that the changes we will experience in the coming years will completely alter our way of interacting with the world.
Although we have made great strides in the evolution of artificial intelligence and virtual reality, we still have a little bit to reach the future that we have imagined and we have shaped it in science fiction and pop culture. The great HAL9000 computer still will not destroy us and for now its great computing powers are helping us to cure illnesses and make our lives easier.
Virtual reality is showing us other possibilities beyond video games and visual tours and is helping us develop more sophisticated tools that help us create new jobs and make the leap to stop being blacksmiths of the XXI Century.
