27 Computer Vision News Computer Vision News can give you a better drug and a better treatment plan. We might also be able to better discover the drugs, discover them faster, and narrow down the different targets and ideas that we pursue to make sure that we only go for the best one. That’s where AI is really effective in narrowing down the different options that we have, and then our expert biologists go and can actually explore what we tell them to focus on. Sometimes, we’re completely wrong, but sometimes, we help them quite a lot. What happens if you find the wrong medicine? [laughs] Yeah, I think that’s discovered way before it hits the market, so I wouldn’t be too worried about that. If I make a mistake, someone else in the company will catch it way before the patient does, so I guess it’s just going to be me who gets a bad rep within the company. But we do sometimes present incorrect results because it can never be 100% accurate. I think what we’re always trying to work towards is to decrease the error rate, essentially, where the suggestions we make to people who then go on and design the drugs and test them is as low as possible. It is generous of you as a healthy person to be dedicating the best years of your life to finding medicine for ailments that you will never have. Well, you never know, right? [laughs] Jokes aside, it’s very nice to feel you’re making a contribution to society. A lot of people say bad things about pharma, but in the end, someone’s got to develop the drugs, and it’s a very hard and lengthy process. I think that justifies, to some extent, high prices in some cases. It makes me really happy to be able to work with my main interest. I’m so interested in the technical aspects and learning more about machine learning, but then to actually make some good use of it. I could work at a high-frequency trading kind of firm, but I’m not sure how that would help society, so it feels like a good position for me, at least. Is this something that you could foresee 20 years ago? 20 years ago, I don’t think I foresaw a lot of things! [laughs] I did find from almost 20 years ago a plan for a future that we wrote in second grade, and it said, ‘I want to be an engineer and save lives.’ I did get an engineering Alma Andersson
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