2024-07-21
29 分钟In Microsoft’s pioneering AI For Good Lab, data scientists and researchers’ use of artificial intelligence (AI) is helping to tackle disinformation, predict wildfires, track whales and even detect leprosy in vulnerable populations. But what are the dangers in AI being used for bad? Chief Scientist and Lab Director Juan M Lavista Ferres has co-authored the book ‘AI for Good’, which explores the measurable effect, potential and limitations of AI’s application in addressing global challenges in health, climate change and human rights, explored in this in-depth conversation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hello, this is Meet the Writers.
I'm Georgina Godwin.
My guest today is the chief scientist and lab director of the philanthropic Microsoft AI for Good research lab, where data scientists and researchers use of AI has helped to tackle disinformation, predict wildfires, track whales, and even detect leprosy in vulnerable populations.
Well, he's now co authored the book AI for Good, which offers an optimistic view of artificial intelligence's impact and potential and explores how its application can help experts tackle global challenges in health, human rights and climate change.
Juan La Vista Ferrez.
Welcome to meet the writers.
Thank you very much.
Pleasure to be here.
It's wonderful for you to be here.
I know that my colleagues first came across you at Davos.
They read your book, they spoke to you.
They came back absolutely brimming with enthusiasm, going, you have to get this guy on the program.
And I'm so pleased to see that that has actually happened.
Juan, you were born in 1977 in Uruguay.
Tell me about your early upbringing because it was quite rural.
Yeah, I grew up in a farm.
Amazing experience.
To growing up.
This is in near a small town called Jung or Yang in English.
And I grew up, we have four brothers.