Discovery 14: Opening Keynotes - Salim Ismail and Brad Templeton from Singularity University
Keynote Session: Singularity University introduced by Debbie Fischer, Corporate Director and Board Member, Ontario Centres of Excellence Salim Ismail, ...
Would have been great to see what they have on screen.
Ask an Expert : Robocars (Self-Driving Cars)
S1:E2 Brad Templeton is Singularity University's Networks & Computing chair, as well as an autonomous vehicle developer board member of the Electronic ...
Obviously this is a lie the viewers are getting an expert opinion. Car's
are not "SELFS", they are inanimate objects not living.. they are
DRIVER-LESS aka computer guided cars *CDC's*. And like +MirceaKitsune
stated.. he's quite accurate...and "Human AI" will never exist. [Later
Edit] - More importantly, SELF is a PRONOUN which grammatically can only be
applied to living men and women.
+MirceaKitsune This is where you are wrong, consider this;//motherboard.vice.com/read/this-poker-playing-supercomputer-is-getting-crushed-by-humansAI is one thing, self motivated, self aware is something else. - //www.wired.com/2015/01/ai-arrived-really-worries-worlds-brightest-minds/The builder of the system is not beat by the system he built, keep that in mind. You can never out-design the designer."The claim that research in AI will inevitably result in consciousness has absolutely no scientific justification. At best,it's speculative science-fiction. At worst, it's pure ignorance. Putting a timeframe on the claim is self borderline psychotic." -- //www.wired.com/2015/01/ai-arrived-really-worries-worlds-brightest-minds/People should try investigating and paying more attention to people much more knowledgeable on such matters who do not sensationalize it and talk TRUTH about it, here's another prime example of how many news organizations don't give real computer science but tabloid science passing off speculation science as 'IT'S NOW A FACT!"The furthest we have gotten to AI has not really changed since computers first came about. The only difference today is bandwidth. Machines still follow a given set of instructions, as they have always only been capable of doing. They are still just calculators. Even Watson or Asimo, or the Google Brain are just responding to inputs and outputting the programmed responses. Siri appears more AI-like than a casio calculator, but underneath they use the exact same computational principles. Siri has no better rationale, so-to-speak, she just has an expanded information pool from which to draw inputs and calculations, and a higher number-crunching bandwidth. We are not even close to cognizance, because it takes an entirely different kind of computing. We will not have real AI until we figure out how we have attained our own cognizance and are able to instill that factor into a machine. That all being said, nefarious or unintended outputs from unconscious algorithms are just as much of a concern as more and more things become connected. - //www.wired.com/2015/01/ai-arrived-really-worries-worlds-brightest-minds/"AI Has Arrived". Really? Let me know when an AI can make a half stab at the Turing test. Pretending to be foreign or ignorant for some reason is not allowed. The problems that are being discussed are important, but are not going to materialise any time soon. They require an AI to have a profound understanding of itself and human beings. //www.wired.com/2015/01/ai-arrived-really-worries-worlds-brightest-minds/Once again, such organizations are over sensationalizing this and not making clear that AI will NEVER be "CONSCIOUS" since this is HOLLYWOOD and not reality.(of course this is an evolutionary point of view) We don't define consciousness as a neural network. We assume that consciousness is what's HAPPENING in a neural network of sufficient complexity. There's a huuuuge difference between those two concepts. Also, we've pretty much always tried to describe the human brain as an analogy to whatever the most sophisticated technology of the day is. Before neural networks, the brain was described as a bunch of wires and vacuum tubes...before that as a steam engine and even before that, as a clockwork. That tradition goes all the way back to the ancient greeks and as such really doesn't reflect any qualitative progress in our ability to define or identify consciousness. Not trying to be a downer here. Just stating the simple fact that scientifically speaking there's absolutely NOTHING to justify the assumption that we will inevitably create a self-aware AI. There's no theoretical or empirical evidence, not even on the smallest scale, to support your assumption. //www.wired.com/2015/01/ai-arrived-really-worries-worlds-brightest-minds/"A computer is a glorified abacus. Please keep that in mind. It's a machine. We can make machines to kill people or save them, but each and every one of them depends on us and our ability to choose. They're levers. That's all." //www.wired.com/2015/01/ai-arrived-really-worries-worlds-brightest-minds/"Yes, but consciousness is not a prerequisite for destruction. Albeit simple, look at any kind of malware. Simple code that can spread like wildfire with one objective in mind -- taking over other software. A truly conscientious AI mind would be the exact same risk as any person would be against another-- some good, some bad. All depending on a plethora of factors. Even still, an algorithm hardly has to be "smart" to cause destruction." //www.wired.com/2015/01/ai-arrived-really-worries-worlds-brightest-minds/"It is not true that AI has arrived. Image and speech recognition algorithms are not even close to matching the capabilities of the human cortex. For example, a deep neural net that has been trained to recognize chairs really has no idea what a chair is. It cannot tell you that a chair is for sitting, or that it will fall over if pushed, or that it can be made of any number of materials, or which part of the chair is closer to the camera, to the left or to the right. If you give it a video clip of a chair being moved, it has no idea that each frame of the video represents the same chair. Recognition is really a very small part of what the cortex does." //www.wired.com/2015/01/ai-arrived-really-worries-worlds-brightest-minds/So just some things to consider.
+Awakened2Truth - Disciple of Jesus the Christ One correction: I think that an AI capable of human level intelligence might exist, perhaps even in a decade. Likely not for conventional computers that operate in binary, but once researchers figure out how to engineer an electronic device that works like the human brain. This is however more into the distant future... researchers are on the way but not there yet (last I heard at least).
Cars that can (efficiently and safely) drive themselves on existing roads
are not something real, it's a concept at best. You simply can't have a
conventional computer use a 2D image to understand traffic lights, traffic
signs, the lanes painted on the road, where intersections are located, how
exactly to steer on a curved road, and much more... without either the road
being filled with sensors, or an AI with the pattern processing
capabilities of the human brain (which doesn't exist yet).
If someone tries to put one of those things on the road where I live, I'm
not getting out of my house unless it's absolutely necessary. The idea
might however be feasible for public roads many years from now, when a lot
of new technology will exist and it can be done properly.
+MirceaKitsune "engines will never replace horses, horses are faster and you dont need to twist something in the front to start a horse. I will never buy a engine car because I'm no used to horses." Your kind has been around before and it will exist in the future. These people are called "wrong"
+Ryomaru Yes... I did make a mistake stating that only a 2D image from a camera is used. There are also cameras that can sense depth, radars, etc. Certainly these can be used here as well.However, I do not rationally see a way in which any scanner can detect where an intersection is, how a road curves, understand the painted lanes, and especially perceive then rationalize road signs and traffic lights. How does it detect the edge of a road for instance, so the car doesn't disregard a turn and jump into a lake... especially if for some reason the ground happens to have the same color as the pavement (eg: gray clay)? It's no Dunning-Kreuger, I am simply asking what sort of alien technology they're going to use to process data which to my knowledge needs a human brain to translate.Like I stated, this is possible if every intersection has a location sensitive sensor which explains the state of the traffic lights, at which position offset to steer and for how long, etc. Or maybe using satellite data, and pre-writing the "rules" of each road and the exact movements the car must take along the way... although that would require a GPS that's sensitive to the centimeter. There might be even better ways I didn't think of... but I believe that in general it needs special sensors in roads, I don't see how else.
+MirceaKitsune A classic example of the Dunning-Kreuger effect in action. My favorite part was where you compare a set of LIDAR, RADAR, laser rangefinders, and a database containing a million man-hours of test driving data to 'a 2D image'.
Brad Templeton - The Future of Computer Security
Brad Templeton, chairman of the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), describes the future of online security, privacy and society. This lecture is ...
I don't agree with his 4th Amendment argument either. I really doubt that
location of data with 3rd parties, instead of inside your home, means no
4th Amendment search and seizure protection. I think he is overstating the
law trends and it is more complicated than that. But the Supreme Court is
addressing this issue now, five years after this speech. Templeton's dire
view might come true soon, at least for a while, until we can get younger
justices, but I doubt it. We will see soon enough.
I do agree with many of his other assertions, and most of his other
insights. He has obviously thought deeply re privacy and is a tireless
advocate of this basic freedom to be left alone.
@MrNaryal A bit of research would give you more detail. CISSP is a
Certified Information Systems Security Professional Network Security is the
security infrastructure of a network In the case of a CISSP, Information
system security is what the engineer does in a nutshell, although it'd be
better to do some research to find out what this entails, as it will differ
slightly between companies that may seem similar at face value.
I disagree re his assertion that product liability will not help. He claims
it will overwhelm insurers. I doubt it, not now that insurance is more
widespread. Yes, that will make more business for me, but really, that's
not why I favor legal action. I just believe that cos should be responsible
for their negligence.
I am very happy to see the vidoe from you, hopefully the others also are
happy for You describes the future of online security, privacy and society.
This lecture is from Singularity University's Graduate Summer Program
Your Video Is Very Useful Sharing Brad Templeton, chairman of the board of
the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), describes the future of online
security, privacy and society
I do think he should have dried his hands beforehand.
Design of living things: Yasaman Sheri at TEDxBrussels
Yasaman Sheri is an Industrial Designer, formerly a Teaching Fellow at Singularity University and on the Board of Directors at Fluxmedia, Concordia University.
This is a quick over-view about open access DIY synthetic biology and
industrial design - 3D printing using for example microbial cellulose,
biollumiscent materials, growing insulation using fungus, Second half
mostly concentrates on Kids from TEDx Kids
Which Way Next with Louise Leakey at Singularity University!
Louise Leakey (paleontologist/paleoanthropologist, conservationist, winemaker, pilot, mother) comes to Singularity University to talk to the 2012 Graduate ...
Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director at venture capital firm Draper Fischer Jurvetson, discusses innovation and disruption in the energy sector. Steve previously ...
@koneye 1/1 Yes the US bins billions worth of food but that is not the
problem. The real problem is distribution of foods and resources. War and
corruption are contributors to the problem but not the real issue that is
stopping distribution of food. The real issue is education as this the real
mechanism to creation of goods and services. GMO innovation is not just a
corporate field of research there is many small and independent fields of
researchers that are also driving this science.
GMO is unstable and controllable , it is a money machine it has nothing to
do with saving the people or the planet, it is not the future and it will
not be , the hole idea is insane , why would you not go after natural
selection but rather spend millions and make a plant that would take such a
chemical abuse and will not let you keep seeds for next year because they
will not grow , unless it is money and control you are after
@bighands69 And what happens when these corporations are all corrupt and
start making terminator seeds? What happens when you can't keep your own
seeds for next year? What will feed people in the 3rd world is innovation
,less corruption and exploitation, peace for a change, and when the 1st
world stops raping Africa and the rest for resources watch?v=VV16qVoZ5SA -
US trashes $ 1 Bln worth of food
@koneye 2/2 Real innovation is the driving factor behind GMO advances.
There is more independent scientists doing research into biotechnology and
its applications. Open source biotechnology has been in full swing for many
years and has millions of researchers. Stopping GMO's would suit large
corporations more than it would suit the people of the third world.
@koneye GMO's are offering a means to feed people in the third world who at
present do not have the land or means to grow food. Yes GMO's will be
abused by certain corporations but that is not a reason to no do research
or bring these products to the market.
This talk was more jam-packed with insights and on a wide range of topics
than perhaps any I've seen. And I watch hours of talks almost every day.
That kind of awesomeness is intimidating.