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DO NOT FEAR ARTIFICIAL

INTELLIGENCE

“Come with me if you want to live!”

BY JEN, RUTH AND RACHAEL


So what is AI??
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
WELL IT IS NOT…

The super computer called “HAL” from the film ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ which
chooses to value mission over human life.
GRADY BOOCH:

‘’I’m not interested in building a certain machine. I am not building a HAL.


What I’m after is a simple brain, something that offers the illusion of
intelligence.”

- Scientist, Philosopher and Nasa Engineer


https://www.ted.com/talks/grady_booch_don_t_fear_superintelligence/up-next?language=en
BUT WHAT IT REALLY IS…

✓A machine that extends the human experience beyond our imaginations


✓It gives people with disabilities and learning difficulties to have the opportunity to
use devises that we take for granted
✓Helps accurately detect cancers with human help
✓It could potentially improve the memory of those suffering with Alzheimers and
Dementia
✓AI can even be used by Autodesk!
✓It is not something we should be fear
TOM GRUBER - (CO – CREATOR OF SIRI)

“I think the purpose of AI is to empower humans, with machines…”

Tom Gruber helped redefine the use of machine


intelligence in our lives and transformed the way
we interact with our devices.
https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_gruber_how_ai_can_enhance_our_memory_work_and_social_lives/up-next?language=en
WE ALL KNOW SIRI…

Siri is a machine which knows your intent and seeks to help you get things done.

Tom Gruber - “We Designed Siri as a humanistic AI to augment people with a


conversational interface, that made it possible for them to use mobile computing
regardless of who they were and their abilities.”

https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_gruber_how_ai_can_enhance_our_memory_work_and_social_lives/up-next?language=en
FOR MOST OF US, IT MAKES TECHNOLOGY EASIER
TO USE…
However, for some people they use AI’s like Siri to help them use the devises that
we often take for granted.
TOM GRUBER –

“For my friend Daniel, the impact of AI systems is a life changer.”

“Daniel is a very social person but is also blind. Which makes


devices like the iPhone difficult to use.”

https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_gruber_how_ai_can_enhance_our_memory_work_and_social_lives/up-next?language=en
Daniel uses Siri to help manage his social life through text, email etc…

His relationship with AI, helps him with his relationships with human beings.
Without the help of AI this could have been very a difficult task for Daniel and
it is something everyone should be able to use to prevent loneliness and
isolation.
Quite recently a woman has received a prosthetic hand that allows for sense of touch (BBC,
2018). Allowing for easier to accomplish mundane but important things.
This augmentation can also make robots safer (potentially within the workplace).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-42430895
For those who have learning difficulties such as Dyslexia, AI
technology can read whatever they like back to them. Making
simple tasks easier and faster for them.

https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_gruber_how_ai_can_enhance_our_memory_work_and_social_lives/up-next?language=en
KASPAR
• Kaspar (created and used between 2005-16)
helps young children who have autism.
• These animatronics were designed with the
purpose to improve the communication between
children who struggle reading emotions meaning
they can develop the everyday skills that we
often take for granted.
CANCER DETECTION WITH THE HELP OF AI

Each day Pathologists will look at hundreds of slides which contain millions of
cells.

To help support this task researchers made an “AI Classifier.”


The classifier can tell whether or not the person has cancer.
SOME CANCERS COULD OF GONE UNDETECTED
AND UNTREATED…
They realised that by putting machine and human intelligence together, it

created a 99.5% accuracy!

Tom Gruber – “The human machine team delivers super – human performance.”

https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_gruber_how_ai_can_enhance_our_memory_work_and_social_lives/up-next?language=en
IMPROVING THE HUMAN MEMORY

Cognitive Enhancement:
We often say “How smart can we make our machines?”

We should be asking a different question: “How smart can our machines make
us?”

https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_gruber_how_ai_can_enhance_our_memory_work_and_social_lives/up-next?language=en
We all know that human memory is famously flawed. Everyone can tell a story
but can they get all the details right? What if you could remember everything?

Tom Gruber – “I believe AI will make personal memory enhancement a reality.”

https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_gruber_how_ai_can_enhance_our_memory_work_and_social_lives/up-next?language=en
Tom Gruber believes that one day by the use of AI we will be able to
remember everything. This can be a very daunting thought, however he wants us
to be able to choose what to remember.

An AI like this could help those suffering with Alzheimer's and dementia be able
to remember their loved ones names. Helping to loose a life of isolation to gain
a life of dignity and connection.

https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_gruber_how_ai_can_enhance_our_memory_work_and_social_lives/up-next?language=en
AUTODESK
Software such as Autodesk (creators of Maya)
can use AI to create thousands of brand new designs. As Computer Animation students we all know
how difficult it is to produce 100 thumbnails but imagine how beneficial it would be putting a design
into a machine that creates thousands of more for you from just that one design!

Does this mean we are no longer needed? - No. Absolutely not. As humans we understand what we
like as a species, and robotics- at the moment- is not at a point wherein it’s easier to rely on it to
calculate or use these recognized likes/dislikes within the field. We decide what needs calculating,
and apply it accordingly.

Also in the absence of a ‘self evolving’/ learning software, it cannot account for the new anomalies of
nature that may pop up, to gives the differentiations in species needed for evolution and survival.
WE SHOULD NOT FEAR AI…

Remember when we feared:


• The telephone. We were worried it would destroy all civil conversation…
• When the written word became pervasive, people thought we would lose are
ability to memorize.

These are all true to a degree…


Grady Booch – “It is also the case that these technologies brought to us things
that extend the human experience in a profound ways!”

We all rightly have fears about AI, however like all things it will eventually
evolve and embody some of our values.

https://www.ted.com/talks/grady_booch_don_t_fear_superintelligence/up-next?language=en
WHY ARE WE UNEASY?
• Value – The idea of creating life. By doing this are we lowering our own lives
simplifying it into equations and mathematics?
• Replaced – By creating “life” that may advance beyond ourselves, will we be
replaced? If we play an active part in AI development, then there’s no reason
to loose the skills we’ve developed over time.
• Challenging the humanist mindset – The idea that consciousness no longer has
to exist within the human brain.
• Power – Power and control being taken away from humanity, we use
technology to give the impression that we are a superior race to other
creatures, but now, ironically, technology could become a superior to us.
But these are all theories, or superstition! No one knows really if this
could happen!

“Don’t tell Siri this, we can always unplug them!”


Grady Booch –

https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_gruber_how_ai_can_enhance_our_memory_work_and_social_lives/up-next?language=en
“We need to learn to live in harmony with the technology
we are building, to work with it in order to improve the
world, rather than destroy it. AI can be a force for good,
provided the people who are building it have good
intentions and we have the civic institutions to ensure it is
disseminated and regulated in an ethical manner. “ (Zeena
Qureshi- Ananas CEO & Cofounder)

It’s down to us.

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