Data can be fed into AI engines, whether it's for diagnosis, treatment, preventive maintenance, or health exams. Human healthcare is being digitized in the areas of wearable computing, radiology, genetic sequencing and more detailed blood tests. AI is ready to be adopted to help address future pandemics, future health and future healthcare. The pandemic has woken all of us up about how fragile we human beings are. Lee: “Contactless Love” would be the most important because it illustrates the power of AI for healthcare. The stories take place in 10 different countries and affect 10 different industries.įlannery: If you had to pick one of the 10 as the most important, which would it be and why? Twenty years into the future is a good period of time - anything too short wouldn’t seem revolutionary anything too long wouldn’t be a responsible prediction.

I wanted to use imaginative stories to introduce AI to people who might otherwise find AI intimidating. number will be that large.įlannery: The format for “AI 2041” differs from “AI Superpowers,” using fictional stories with follow-up analysis of their lessons. We can count about 10 to 12 expected AI companies to be listed publicly at multi-billion-dollar valuations in China by the end of next year. If you go forward one or one and a half years and count the number of AI IPO companies, China will actually be ahead.

So overall, I think both countries have done well. We're seeing lots of great breakthroughs in healthcare. That same product could be extended to laboratory research, and, essentially, start to replace much of the work that laboratory technicians do. It has developed a robotic machine that can do Covid tests 100 times faster than without the machine because it's 24-7 with everything in parallel. It turns out that the laboratory is a great place for robotics.Īn example of one of the portfolio companies we’ve invested in is a company called MegaRobo. And that has led to AI-based drug discovery, protein folding, intelligent AI-based radiology, AI for social distancing, and the use of robotics in laboratories. That's kind of emergent and is beyond my predictions in “AI Superpowers” because Covid really accelerated a lot of that. Both countries have done a lot in AI for healthcare. Naturally, each will apply AI to areas that it's strong in. is stronger in enterprise software, and China is stronger in manufacturing. China has accelerated its robotics and manufacturing. is stronger in fundamental research, enterprise software and enterprise AI. Lee: Both countries have continued to become the “AI Superpowers” that I predicted, leading the world by far.

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