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AI: mind-machine connection, in favor of well-being and quality of life

(Expansion) – Multiple authors have written about the concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for more than 50 years. Movies like AI Artificial Intelligence from 2001, which was inspired by the book “Supertoys last all summer long” by Brian Aldiss published in 1969, raises the existence of humanoid robots that are capable of generating human feelings.

Although there is a great deal of fiction, what is true today is that the first uses and integrations of digital technology with AI, particularly in health, are already a reality and are beginning to surprise us in everyday situations.

The concept of AI is complex, as it is more than a set of automated or digital processes. It is about computational evolution to a level where systems are capable of communicating with each other, self-learning and discerning abstract concepts such as feelings or morals.

In the end, this intelligence machinery must evolve on its own and become an enhancer of the human mind, with the capacity for autonomy and self-management of a type of meta-human thought.

Now, all these systems are possible through complex ways of interaction between information units that emulate the human brain and are called neural networks, and it is precisely the complexity of these networks that will deepen the evolution of both AI itself and its interactions with humans.

Major initiatives such as the BRAIN Project, initially led by the Spanish neurobiologist and Professor Rafael Yuste of Columbia University in the United States, which has raised millions of dollars in investment aimed at understanding the biological complexity of the more than 80 million neurons and their interconnections within the human brain, and how this very complex map should be used to develop future technologies that will impact the application of intelligent systems in areas such as health, robotics, communications and human relations.

Google and other technology companies are already using this knowledge in their own developments, generating millions of dollars in return.

There are already experimental models where patients with motor disabilities, as a result of Parkinson’s disease or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, will have the possibility of controlling robots with brain-machine interfaces that will allow them the mobility and independence that the disease currently prevents them.

Robotics with digital algorithms is already beginning to see the light of day in commercial models of prostheses with prediction and stabilization of movements through electromyographic measurements (electrical signals originating in the muscles), as well as in prototypes of artificial respiration technology that use information loops between the machine and the patient’s cardiopulmonary system to predict whether it requires dynamic adaptations of its oxygenation level indicators or whether or not the patient can be safely weaned from the ventilator.

The sophistication in the application of AI in the diagnosis of diseases, the selection of treatments, planning of surgical interventions or even remote robotic surgery, is a few years away from clinical tests for its validation and conventional execution.

Technological singularity is the pinnacle of AI, the resulting explosion of intelligence will give rise to increasingly autonomous and precise machines that can generate great benefits for humanity through more efficient health systems, but it can also give rise to great dilemmas bioethics and control over those same capacities.

The idea of these intelligent systems has created camps between AI skeptics and optimists and is the subject of lively debate, as we see between authors Peter Diamandis of Singularity University and Max Tegmark of MIT. The future of health in the field of AI and singularity still have a long way to go in common.

what the doctor meant

I don’t know if it happens to them like me when I hear or read Dr. Fernando Castilleja talk to us about the future of health: it seems that we are seeing how everything that a few years ago was called “science fiction” becomes a reality.

I loved the conclusion of “intelligence equals connection” and not individuality, because it means that whatever has to happen, it will be the coordinated sum of many collaborative research and innovation efforts.

On the other hand, the idea of self-governing machines is terrifying to me, so I prefer the proposal of making the human mind connect with machines to control them for the well-being and quality of life of humanity.

Finally, I love this concept of “singularity” in which machines are not self-governing and can be used to solve social inequalities, since it is urgent that advances in Artificial Intelligence serve to make a fairer world and not just to decide for themselves. us what to see on social networks or suggest shopping options from our cell phone.

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Publisher’s Notes:

This column is part of the ‘The Future of Health’ serial .

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Fernando Castilleja is an internist and an expert in lifestyle medicine and health innovation. Professor at the Tec de Monterrey School of Medicine for 20 years. Co-founder of NuupHealth and CEO of Genethic Services. Mentor Endeavor, McCombs Business School at UT Austin, HealthIDS and CONACYT Binational Innovation Nodes. Follow him on and/or on .

Juana Ramírez is founder, CEO and Chairwoman of Grupo SOHIN. President of the Warriors Foundation. Entrepreneur Endeavor. President of the Board of Directors of the Association of Entrepreneurs of Mexico. Author of the initiative “Medicine with M for Women”. University professor at UP and IPADE Business School. Follow her on and/or on .

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