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There is this very intriguing Enterprise Car Rental commercial on TV (I’m old school and still watch my commercials on a television) that shows a glimpse into future driving behaviors enabled by autonomous vehicles. The autonomous vehicles appear to be randomly crossing the intersection, with cars driving through the intersection without stopping and waiting for the other cars. Because these cars are literally talking to each other – without a human to slow down or confuse the conversation – they are able to synchronize their crossing of the intersection without today’s ineffective human-necessitated process of negotiating stop lights.
And we know that humans need strict controls to govern their driving process because many (most?) humans suck at complex tasks such as driving a car. Read More
Daily Archives: May 20, 2019
Big Data and the Rise of Augmented Intelligence: Sean Gourley at TEDxAuckland
3 Things You Need To Know About Augmented Intelligence
Steve Jobs was fond of saying that the key to Apple’s success has been a marriage of technology and the liberal arts. What he meant by this is that innovation emerges at the intersection of art and technology– rather than either alone.
In fact, it was Douglas Engelbart who first understood the importance of computer technologies in bootstrapping human capabilities and augmenting human creativity. Building on Engelbart’s thinking, we need to begin to better comprehend the challenges of machine intelligence in the context of human creativity and innovation— particularly with regard to our systems of learning and education. Read More
Artificial intelligence can now make art. Artists, don’t panic.
Music lovers gathered in a London theater one night in March to take part in an unusual event: half classical concert, half futuristic experiment. Their task was to listen to music that had been composed partly by Bach and partly by artificial intelligence— and try to guess which parts were which. Throughout the performance, the audience members voted by holding up cards with a blue human face on one side and a red robot face on the other.
“It was quite shocking,” Marcus du Sautoy, an Oxford mathematician who masterminded the event, told me. “There were moments when I think Bach would have turned in his grave! Moments when Bach was playing and people were saying it was the AI.” Read More
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