Alexa, Siri and robotic hoovers have become common household appliances. But how would you feel about a robot making your bed in the morning? Could AI robots be the future of healthcare?

TU lead John Kelleher believes it could be. Whether we know it or not, NLP and AI have already become part of our daily lives. From tumour detection to drug discovery research is now delving deeper into healthcare to see what more could be achieved. Have we reached our peak with AI and healthcare or could walking talking robots be in our future? If so, how would medical ethics work?

TOPICS WE DISCUSSED INCLUDE:

● What is NLP or Natural Language Processing

● Where is NLP used

● How does NLP impact our daily lives

● What does the future of NLP look like, will robots soon be a household appliance?

● AI and Healthcare

● How is AI currently being used in the fight against Covid 19

● The ethical concerns surrounding AI in Healthcare

● How can AI be made more sustainable

GUEST DETAILS

John Kelleher is the TU Dublin lead in the ADAPT Centre and the scientific lead for the Digital Content Transformation Strand. Within the ADAPT centre, John leads research projects on language modelling, lexical semantics, machine translation, novelty detection, image captioning, dialogue systems, and making AI more environmentally sustainable.

Adapt Centre - https://www.adaptcentre.ie/experts/john-d-kelleher/

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/johndkelleher

YOUR HOST

Marie Boran is a PhD candidate and third-level lecturer in the area of science, technology & society. Her passion is emerging technologies and as a writer has been covering the technology sector for almost 15 years. She was Irish Science Writer of the Year in 2018 and Technology Reporter of the Year in 2016.

Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mboran/