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cy events, such as flash floods, or when other patents and papers in computer
there are large events such as Rio’s car- supported collaborative work, distrib-
nival. uted systems, big data analytics applied
to smarter cities.
Personally, you have done a lot of
scientific research and published a Humankind has entered this fasci-
number of academic papers. What do nating era of very fast and exciting tech-
you consider to be your key findings? nological progress. Obviously, it has no
limits. But, in this respect, how do you
G. Banavar: I have published and envisage ordinary people’s life 10 years
patented across a number of sub-fields from now?
within computing. One of my recent
patents is about how to protect mod- G. Banavar: One of my visions is that
ern connected cars from hacking. My every professional in every field – that
recent papers are about the future of is billions of people pursuing profes-
artificial intelligence systems, about a sions in medicine, law, engineering, and
variety of research and application ar- thousands of fields – will have AI-based
eas and “Turing tests” that test AI sys- cognitive assistants to help them do
tems across many dimensions. I have their jobs on a daily basis. Your cogni-
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