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
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Get an Amazon Echo (<$50)
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GET THE Google Assistant App
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PLAY AROUND
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???
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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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