Using AI to fight blindness

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

English - November 01, 2022 07:30 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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As well as trying to sell you products you’ve just been talking about but don’t want, and beating humans at chess or Go or Mario cart, AI can actually do some real good in the world.

One field in which AI could really have a profound effect is medical diagnostics for instance.

Dr. Nikolas Pontikos is the Principal Investigator and Group Leader of the Pontikos Lab at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital - he joins Jonathan to discuss.