Anesu Matanhire: Artificial Intelligence Holds Vast, Untapped Potential

Participants are discussing how to develop digital services and strengthen technological independence. Anesu Matanhire, a student at the University of Zimbabwe, told the IT Russia media platform about the topics he had explored at the forum:

– I’m a student at the University of Zimbabwe, where I study computer science. I’m also conducting additional research.

I’ve had an overwhelmingly positive impression of the forum. It’s a wonderful and important event, and this is my first time attending. We’ve met many people, and everyone has been very friendly. The program is wide-ranging, informative and engaging.

I attended several sessions. One explored the potential for combining DNA technologies with blockchain. It’s a new and interesting field that calls for further research.

I’m most interested in the use of artificial intelligence in medicine. At one session, we discussed the possibility of scanning a fly’s neural circuitry and transferring that structure to another fly’s brain. This raises a broader question: Could AI, now or in the near future, scan an animal’s consciousness and then transfer it to a computer or another machine?

We’re talking about AI’s vast potential, much of which remains unexplored. If technologies like these can already be applied to a fly, perhaps in ten years we’ll be able to map the human brain, scan it and transfer consciousness to a computer.

Will that become possible? It’s a fascinating question to think about. Such prospects for AI are both frightening and tremendously exciting.