The future of AI: The human component Part 1
With experts, scientists and millionaires alike spouting how great AI is and how it will become an integral part of our lives in the very near future, there is a device that some may say is an invasion of your privacy.
The ability to interpret your inner voice. Is it possible? Yes. But when I say “inner voice,” I mean it can interpret your cognitive thoughts.
*further information read below on Targeted Neuroplasticity
AUGMENTED REALITY apps — Immersing Yourself
MIT’s Augmented Reality smartphone app, Ubiquity6, allows a visitor to visit a friend’s world, while layering the physical “real” with the “unreal.” The visitor sees the linear field of view.
NASA shared the first West Coast space launch (from Vandenburg Air Force base) Saturday, May 5, 2018. The InSight Lander spacecraft launch (scheduled to land November 26 on Elysium Planitia, the second largest volcanic region on the planet Mars) was viewed via the NY Times app. It will explore the red planet and record marsquakes.
Facebook launched their Camera Effects AR Platform for developers in December 2017. It has rolled out Effects (only available for iOS and Android) for Marvel’s “Avengers-Infinity War.” It shows a selection of avatars with these augmented reality effects.
Magic Leap Magic Edition has hinted that it will be released this year however if you are a developer you can download the Creator Portal SDK. It runs on a NVIDIA Tegra Processor. It has received some criticism, most recently
MIT Media/Fluid Interfaces Lab has been working on a project with a non-invasive, intelligence-augmentation device, AlterEgo. It basically has four electrodes which read your neuromuscular signals from the peripheral somatic system. It processes through NL (Natural Language). It fits around your face, similar to a tattoo (I’m not sure how that works with makeup applied to the skin).
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After reading the FAQs of AlterEgo, quite a few moral and ethical concerns began to arise. One of them was whether this technology could get into the wrong hands. There’s certainly enough unethical people that would use it as a means of mind control over human behavior and instincts. The article included an “intentional” mention of AlterEgo being non-invasive, however Voice Search and AI will continue to expand. There may be an invasive implant in the brain’s speech motor cortex in the near future.
Back in 2003, a team of scientists at the University of California, including Edward Chang, implanted electrodes in patients with epilepsy because they wanted to know more about seizures and the effects of it. The largest part of the brain, the cerebrum, houses the frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal lobes. Those patients who have had traumatic brain injury have had some success because of neuroplasticity. * The Targeted Neuroplasticity Training Program focuses on cognitive skills which cause peripheral nerves to synapse of the peripheral nerves to fire.
An MIT Project, Dormio (italian for sleep), consisting of an open source software and hardware circuitry motherboard developed by a team of scientists (Adam Haar Horowitz, Ishaan Grover, Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar, Oscar Rosello, Tomás Vega and Aby Jainwho) records the “lucid” (lucid dreaming) state, Hypnagogia, through a wired wristband with 2 separate wired mid-finger bands attached to a glove. This glove is a means to tap into the creative process, allowing the exploration of the mind’s awareness. This glove is an Arduino-based force sensor which monitors/measures muscle control and detects biosignals (loss of muscle tone, heart rate, and changes in skin conductance). HRI (human-robot interaction) has been used to implement human behavior interaction with robots as far back as 2011. A process of using a method alert and record on the subject using Jibo, the socially intelligent robot developed by pioneer scientist, Dr. Cynthia Breazeal, offered a way to record the data, however, this has been replaced with an app.
DimensionalMechanics, a Bellevue, Washington startup, headed by AI Developer, Rajeev Dutt, proves to be a formidable force in the race to lead this competitive technology. The company recently received more funding for their NeoPulse Framework, which includes their own Natural Language Processing and an AI Studio, dubbed the “Oracle.” Developers can now build models in a fraction of the time it would normally take with its improved hyperparameter optimization for deep learning neural networks, encompassing media, audio, text, etc. It is Turing complete: a standard which some of have argued Turing’s theory was Quantum’s all along.
A case in point, is the following:
Spare 5, renamed as Mighty AI, is funded by Accenture Ventures, Foundry Group, Google Ventures, Intel Capital, and the Madrona Venture Group. It features Mighty Studio (autonomous vehicles), Mighty Tools, and other integrations.
Microsoft Accelerator, now renamed as “ScaleUp,” consists of 12-startups are as follows:
AppICE, Appiyo Technologies’ Twixor, Avanseus Technologies, eGovernments Foundation, Gaia Smart Cities Solution, GrowthEnabler, Karo Sambhav, Kogence, MachineSense, SmartVizX, Sprinkle Data and Xurmo Technologies.
AI, Virtual Reality, IoT, etc. are the main technologies which have emerged in the last few years and Accenture Ventures have teamed up to fund B2B start-ups, and more importantly, Big Data Analytics which provides solutions to provider’s big data problems with the first mobile-targeted micro-insights platform.
Raincor is dependent on Simba, which provides third-party vendors the solution to Magnitudes’ Simba for data connectivity.
Another example: Clickfox gathers any data available for their Journeys engine, Fox, to contextualize the audience receiving this data. Splunk has deep learning, anomaly detection, adaptive thresholding and predictive analytics capabilities.
An AI camera named Lighthouse, has 3D sensing which can detect your face, pets, as well as night vision, isn’t exactly an overnight success. This technology is also used on Stanley, the first autonomous car, thanks to the Stanford Racing Team Grand Challenge devised by DARPA. Stanley was retired in 2006 to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC. Thanks to Andy Rubin’s Playground incubator.
The compendium of human knowledge isn’t an ideology or ethical panorama from the lack of not understanding epistemology. Are we in need of a morale boost? The answer we seek is staring back.
Intel has a developer toolkit called OpenVINO, (the Open Visual Inference & Neural Network Optimization), allowing developers to code in machine learning models. Deep Learning which, in turn, extracts snippets of data.
According to some reports:
- IoT should expect a financial growth of Deep Learning to USD $35 billion by 2025.
- Qualcomm has joined forces with Google to develop an AR headset. It is an Android P version.
- NVIDIA’s SmartThings Link which connects to “smart” devices i.e. Google Assistant or Alexa. (It requires a NVIDIA SHIELD TV, an internet connection with available USB port, plus the free SmartThings app for Android (4.0 & up) or iPhone (iOS 9.0).
There continues to be AI bias. Microsoft‘s FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics) was born. This was sprung from the fear of possible and obviously, probable wrong decisions that can be made. We are limited.
Isaac Asimov listed the “Three Laws of Robotics” but society today has changed the roadmap of how we consume, how our wants and needs are met and in some instances, how lazy we’ve become.
We impose fear and without even realizing, causing this paranoia to run amok.
Some fears are valid, but we can’t restrict based on gender, racism, etc.
-Part 2 to be continued
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