San Francisco - Artificial intelligence or artificial intelligence (AI) became the central technology that many announced its latest development in the event Google I / O 2018. Google CEO Sundar Pichai strongly believes that AI will be very useful in the future.
Not only in the field of gadgets, AI technology has been developed for various benefits. In short, AI quietly and gradually will enter human life everyday.
"We know that this AI technology must be navigated with caution.This technology can be a positive force," said this Indian-born man, in a grand event attended directly detikINET.
"Artificial intelligence will affect some areas, such as health, our AI system offers more insight than is done by humans," he added.
Pichai also explained some innovations in the field of AI are useful in various fields, for example detecting the disease much earlier. One is in the field of health, where machine learning Google is able to help doctors predict diabetic retinophaty.
Diabetic Retinopathy is an eye disease that can be fatal, which causes the sufferer to experience blindness. With more than 415 million diabetics worldwide, they are at risk of becoming blind because of the disease.
Google's AI technology applied here is a cloud-based algorithm that analyzes the overall photo of the eye. It is done to look for signs of the disease and the extent of its severity.
Signs that can be seen for example abnormal growth of blood vessels that are behind the eyes, which can cause disturbances in the retina. Google's AI technology allows this detection to be done quickly and to detect things that are hard to see in the human eye.
Dr. Jorge Cuadros, an ophthalmologist who works for Google, states that artificial intelligence has an accuracy rate of over 90% in detecting diabetic retinopathy, which means better than human ability.
Currently, the technology is being tested at several hospitals in India and in the United States. The Google team works with doctors in both countries to create a kind of database that contains eye pictures to train the AI's ability even better.
In addition to detecting diabetic retinophaty, AI has also been trained to predict other diseases such as breast and heart cancer. With the technology already has, it is not impossible Google will be a leader in the field of AI for health.
