Many students think homework is a pain.
But for the 4 million Americans who have fibromyalgia, the chronic pain associated with everyday tasks is terribly literal. Health care professionals think the condition amplifies the way the brain and the spinal cord process signals, leaving the body struggling to tell the difference between painful and nonpainful sensations. The result is that simple tasks and movements can really hurt.
Today, Alenis Fiallo Vargas is an emerging leader in the development of corporate artificial intelligence, or AI, solutions. She currently serves as the director of product-led growth implementations and sales engineering for Kore.AI, a global provider of enterprise AI. In that role, she oversees the production of custom AI agents for a diverse array of clients.
AI agents are computer programs that address problems, collect data and implement solutions according to goals defined by their users. AI agents can be found all over, from popular chatbots to home assistants, such as Alexa, and even in agricultural irrigation systems.
Just a few short years ago, Fiallo Vargas was an undergraduate student in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. She was enrolled in the school’s engineering management program.
And she had a problem: chronic pain.
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