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?
Darpa Challenge 2015

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)

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