The Future of AI: Our High School Instructors

We asked Inspirit AI’s instructors how they see the future of Artificial Intelligence! As it turns out, we got some pretty unique and complex predictions.

Nabib Ahmed’s (Harvard University) personal motivations lie in the implementation and mathematics behind Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. He has completed many projects in Computer Vision and Econometrics using Machine Learning techniques. Because of this, something that excited him about the future of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is “how it'll improve many aspects of our life, from virtual assistants to automating complex tasks. I'm currently following Boston Dynamics and hope to one day see robot partners more commonplace.”

Eric Bradford (MIT) is looking forward to seeing how Artificial Intelligence will be applied to extended reality, such as augmented, mixed, and virtual reality. “This area of research is very new with endless applications! I think that these enhanced realities will power many innovative opportunities in the near future!”

Rohan Badlani (Stanford University) is excited to see how machine learning will change speech and audio, as well as the potential for Graph Neural Networks. “The abstract notion of unsupervised learning without labeled data and enhancing humans in different areas with machine learning is super exciting.”

Vicky Valverde (Stanford University) believes Artificial Intelligence will have a huge impact on drug development “given its potential to redesign, streamline and improve the traditional production of drugs.”

Khaled Jedoui (Stanford University) also sees the potential for Artificial Intelligence in health care, as well as the advancement of Visual Question Answering, Active Learning, and Commonsense Reasoning. In general, he is very excited about “the idea of getting machines to develop and use commonsense in their decision making or when they are navigating the world.”

Rozy Eastaugh (Stanford University) knows Artificial Intelligence can save our planet from the destruction of climate change. “AI can help us tackle many global sustainability challenges, including deforestation, renewable energy efficiency, and food deserts. AI can help us create art to increase empathy surrounding the impact of climate change, show the correlation between pollution exposure risk and social factors such as race and class, and predict natural disasters so that lives can be saved.” She has also been heartened to see increasing conversations on the ethics of Artificial Intelligence and believes those conversations will propel the versatile and powerful use of Artificial Intelligence for social good.

Vinesh Gupta (Stanford University) believes “the ubiquity of AI is one of the most interesting things”, especially with devices communicating with each other using predictive algorithms (such as vehicle-to-vehicle communication).

Aditya Chander (Yale University) sees enormous potential for the application of Artificial Intelligence to music! He predicts its use in the computational modeling of music, as well as the perception and cognition of musical structures. “I'm excited to see these fields heading in the direction of brain-computer interfaces (BCI), especially for music therapy!”

El Bachir Boumhaout is particularly interested in the idea of Human-Centered AI. This focuses on how humans can better integrate with Artificial Intelligence, whether during the learning phase or in real-world operations. “My hope is that this would enable new forms of collective intelligence to come to life where humans and AI compete and collaborate to solve complex problems at scale.”

Amauche Emenari sees a future of Artificial Intelligence in Computer Vision in Microscopy. “There is so much creativity going into how new models are created. Learnings we assumed were only for intelligent animals have become increasingly possible with machines.” And he agrees with his fellow instructors that while the true potential for Artificial Intelligence is limitless and still largely unknown, it will no doubt change the world as we know it and solve the hardest of problems, both old and new.