Computer Vision News - March 2022

47 Bettina Baessler The initials are the same, so we can still call it AI… [ laughs ] Exactly! I never thought about that… Since we are asking philosophical questions: what is the meaning of life, Bettina? The meaning of life is to do something that makes life better. What is the next thing that will make your life better? I will grow my group here, in Würzburg. I started recently, about five months ago. My group is still in the very early phase. I’d like to grow this group to then make life better and better and better. [ laughs ] is always something to learn. There are always different questions, things you haven’t thought about yet. I always leave the room with some new thoughts. I can’t remember a concrete situation. It’s small steps of lifelong learning and thinking differently about things you have taught. Have you ever had a question from a student without knowing how to answer? Yes, this happens often. I have no problem saying I don’t know. Maybe we can look it up together, or you look it up and tell me! I have no problem admitting that I don’t know everything  [ laughs ]. Maybe you can teach us something now!  OK! One important aspect of artificial intelligence, to me, is that I don't like calling it artificial intelligence . Why is that? That is because we have very narrow artificial intelligence tools, as far as what we are doing in routinewith the FDA and CEmark... detecting brain hemorrhage, detecting lung nodules, detecting something… These tools are focused on very specific clinical tasks. This is not very intelligent at all! We could also reflect what intelligence means. This is maybe a philosophical question… We like philosophical questions! I don’t know what real intelligence is. Why do we call it artificial intelligence when we actually don’t know what intelligence means? All these algorithms have been trained on these specific aspects. They are far from being really intelligent as we are as humans, able to interact and integrate so much different information. What I prefer over the term artificial intelligence in the current situation is the term “ augmented intelligence ”. What it is doing is augmenting us. “This is not very intelligent at all!”