New DelhI: Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) should not be used to replace human intelligence, instead it should be used to amplify and augment their intelligence, says Indo-Canadian teen prodigy Tanmay Bakshi, known as the world’s youngest IBM Watson programmer.
Bakshi, 14, a cognitive developer, TEDx Speaker, Algorithmic as well as an author, was speaking at an interactive session with technology journalist Rajeev Makhani, organised by FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) in New Delhi recently.
He lives in Brampton, Canada, with his family who immigrated iin 2004. According to Bakshi, AI is not limited to one field but applicable to business, entertainment, agriculture and healthcare etc. But Bakshi is interested in AI’s prospects in healthcare, especially to help the disabled.
“AI is perfect for healthcare. It can help hundreds and thousands of people suffering from various diseases, including cancers and especially those who are disabled,” Bakshi said, adding that it can help countries like India.
He is currently working on a project, called “The Cognitive Story”, aimed at helping a disabled and housebound Canadian woman communicate through neural network technology that models her brain and nervous system.
The project, which is open-source initiative, applies cognitive technologies to help individuals who are unable to communicate to express their emotions.
The AI-based project also senses people’s intentions and articulates them to individuals or machines. The child prodigy is also on a mission to coach 100,000 people to learn coding and to date has mentored more than 5,000 people.Tanmay began coding at the age of four and had his first app on the iOS App Store by the age of nine. He taught himself Swift when it was still in beta.