'Journey' into the artificial intelligence expert of a 14-year-old boy

Programmers, artificial intelligence experts, "fathers" of many applications, writing books . the biography of Tanmay Bakshi, 14 years old.

This Indian boy living in Ontario, Canada is also a speaker at TEDx Talk and IBM Watson summits around the world .

Self-study and self-study

At the age of 5, Bakshi was taught programming by his father. At the age of 7, he created himself a channel on YouTube to upload tutorials on programming and website development. With each video, he always receives thousands of questions from many people around the world.

At 8, he learned to write applications on the iOS operating system. When he was about to turn 9, he officially got his first app on the Apple Store.

But then over time, he began to lose interest in programming, because "I always feel that technology is very limited. Every time I bring some application up, it will become obsolete very soon after." , the boy shared.

At the age of 11, there was an event that made him decide to turn to a new direction. Numbered while uploading videos to YouTube, he happened to see a documentary about the Watson machine working with IBM's artificial intelligence (AI) and how it competed in the TV show Jeopardy.

It was the first time he heard about AI, and it instantly dispelled his boredom.

Bakshi Tanmay - (Photo: SBS).

Within a week, he created his first Watson application. Named "Ask Tanmay" , this application responds to questions by considering the best answers before issuing an answer.

Not long after that, he happened to come across an IBM service called Document Conversion, which was hot at the time. The main goal of this software is to convert documents from one format to another, such as from PDF to HTML.

In a few minutes of "dabbing" this software, Bakshi discovered an error. So, he put it on a website specializing in his programming and Twitter account.

Soon IBM contacted him, and two of those employees became instructors and helped him collaborate with IBM.

"Ask parents to nurture passion"

Since then, this technology giant has given him many opportunities to speak at conferences that this company organizes. At the Interconnect conference, Bakshi was the keynote speaker before 25,000 people and at the IBM Developer conference in Bengal, India, he was told before 10,000 people.

Excellent expertise in AI has given him many compliments and valuable rewards. After speaking at the Dubai summit in 2017, he was awarded the Knowledge Ambassador award from King Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. He also received the IBM Cloud Champions award and is currently an honorary advisor to this program.

However, Bakshi not only took the time to speak at conferences and "collect" awards. This young man is also working hard to improve the lives of others.

His latest work is the "neural network" , a computer system that simulates the human brain and nervous system.

On the reason why he chose this difficult project, he explained that people can make more mistakes in the health care industry. It is also an area that must combine "tons of data" and use "trial and error" methods, slowing down many medical processes.

However, he admits his knowledge is still limited. To further develop this learning process, Bakshi plans to go to university but has not yet decided which school to choose.

According to CNBC, big names like MIT, Stanford and Harvard are in his sights because "they have great research on topics that interest them".

Tanmay Bakshi is about to finish the second book - (Photo: CNBC).

On the job, he is considering joining the research and development teams of "giants" like IBM, Google, Microsoft and Apple, but said "will not limit yourself".

After writing the book Hello Hello: iOS Application Programming for Children and Beginners , he is now trying to complete the second book about Watson machines.

The 14-year-old said his success was thanks to his parents, who nurtured his passion for research and were always proud of his son's work.

"Parents have given me access to computers and provided the right resources when I needed them most. Without my family's support, my dream would not have gone that far , " he said. share.