From a very real experience Manu Bala was inspired to use artificial intelligence to prevent others from going through the same thing.
He watched his grandfather pass out in front of him before Manu entered high school. It was a frightening moment he doesn’t want to endure again.
“I knew he had diabetes mellitus and was taking insulin shots. We later found out he passed out from a heart attack, and his cardiologist told us he had risk factors for heart disease,” Bala said. “Though his risk factors were there for so long we couldn’t do anything to prevent his heart attack, I learned with more research that AI can be used to predict events and patterns of behavior…