How I got into AI
It started with a video of a monkey moving a mechanical arm with its mind.
I saw it as a teenager on Horizon, as part of an introduction to Brain-computer Interfaces by Miguel Nicolelis’ research group at Duke. Here’s a more recent version:
That planted a seed. Working in neuroscience, or signal processing in neuroscience became a sort of passive, background goal.
The seed lay dormant until, Liam Marnane, one of my lecturers at UCC was leading a research project on detecting brain seizures in newborn babies. They were using Machine Learning to do it. That was the portal to neuroscience first and then AI.
I joined that research group to do a PhD in ML applied to epileptic and neonatal seizures. And then moved into industry as a data scientist and quickly moved across to AI Product Management from there.