Artificial Intelligence for Lazy, Smart Professionals

Not that long, because you're in a hurry, and I'm not that smart.

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"symbol of the mechanical age is the robot, the iron man - slave or master?"

Modern Mechanics and Inventions, March 1931

let the myths & metaphors fall away

• AI is a hammer.
• AI is a keyboard.
• AI is a tool.
• HOW CAN WE USE IT TODAY?

speech, the new keyboard & mouse

This interface is 50 years old.

ALEXA
SIRI
ARGOS

HARD TO DO FOR AI

• Everything *
• Vision
• Speech
• Hearing
• Motor Control
• Reading Comprehension
• Writing

CAN DO FOR AI

• Fast
• Big Data Sets
• Searching the human internet
• Repetition
• Digital Content Generation
• Force Multiplication (more on that in a moment)
• Chess

* I'd rather get my 9 year old daughter to do it

AI FOR

force multiplication

• Do it while I can't!
• I want to relax
• I want to go on vacation
• I want to sleep at night
• hard to get other people to vacuum for me

+ also child labor laws exist

Customer service

• Bank of America's Erica
• Mobile Chatbot
• 24/7 in palm of hand
• Familiar chat interface

HOW CAN we USE AI?

• USE IT TO REPLICATE DIGITAL WORK
• USE IT AS AN INTERFACE, A NEW AGE KEYBOARD
• IT IS A TOOL, NOT A MIND

• Get an Amazon Echo (<$50)

• GET THE Google Assistant App

• PLAY AROUND

• ???

• PROFIT

PLAY

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bibliography

• Max Tegmark (2017). Life 3.0 - Being human in the age of artificial intelligence. New York, NY: Penguin Random House
• Brynjolfsson, E., & McAfee, A. (2014). The Machine Age. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company.
• Clive Thomson (2013). Smarter than you think. NY, NY: Penguin Group.
• Edwards, Benj (December 9, 2008). "The computer mouse turns 40"
• Sigmund Freud (1930) "Civilization and Its Discontents"

LINKS

• http://www.dieselpunks.org/m/blogpost?id=3366493%3ABlogPost%3A49656 (IRON MAN Robot IMAGE)
• Bank of America Erica Image: https://promo.bankofamerica.com/erica

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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on to him and they still give him much trouble at times.
—Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (1930)