I can't wait for the SingularityU Australia Summit in October. The latest haptic suits, activating apps with your eyes, and portable genome sequencing from Teslasuit, Psykinetic, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, to name a few will be there. Are you coming? https://lnkd.in/gR3_NaD
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Explore the critical role experimentation, failure, challenge, adventure and fun have played in the life and pioneering work of John Cohn, Chief Agitator for IBM’s Watson IoT Group. Follow his path from workbench, to board room to eating rats on reality TV! Find out how prioritizing play unlocks the gateway to creativity, innovation, invention and human potential and how to avoid a homogenized existence in an automated age. Part of the IEEE Tech for Humanity Series.
John Cohn is an IBM Fellow in the MIT-IBM Watson AI Research Group based in Cambridge, MA. John earned a BSEE MIT, and a Ph.D in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University He has authored more than 30 technical papers, contributed to four books and has more than 100 worldwide patents. In 2005 John was elected a Fellow of the IEEE.
John is active in education issues at a local, state and national level. He is so passionate about promoting STEM careers that he spent 59 days living and inventing in an abandoned steel mill as part of Discovery Channel's technical survival show "The Colony". John lives with his family in a restored 19th century schoolhouse in Jonesville Vermont and is eager to share his love of science and technology with anyone who will listen.
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Apple Vision Pro - Our Transhuman Future
Sterling Crispin talking about Apple Vision Pro:
"I spent 10% of my life contributing to the development of the #VisionPro while I worked at Apple as a Neurotechnology Prototyping Researcher in the Technology Development Group... I’ve been working on AR and VR for ten years, and in many ways, this is a culmination of the whole industry into a single product.
The work I did supported the foundational development of Vision Pro, the mindfulness experiences, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ products, and also more ambitious moonshot research with neurotechnology. Like, predicting you’ll click on something before you do, basically mind reading. I was there for 3.5 years and left at the end of 2021, so I’m excited to experience how the last two years brought everything together. I’m really curious what made the cut and what will be released later on.
Specifically, I’m proud of contributing to the initial vision, strategy and direction of the ▇▇▇▇▇▇ program for Vision Pro. The work I did on a small team helped green light that product category, and I think it could have significant global impact one day.
Generally as a whole, a lot of the work I did involved detecting the mental state of users based on data from their body and brain when they were in immersive experiences.
So, a user is in a mixed reality or virtual reality experience, and AI models are trying to predict if you are feeling curious, mind wandering, scared, paying attention, remembering a past experience, or some other cognitive state. And these may be inferred through measurements like eye tracking, electrical activity in the brain, heart beats and rhythms, muscle activity, blood density in the brain, blood pressure, skin conductance etc.
There were a lot of tricks involved to make specific predictions possible, which the handful of patents I’m named on go into detail about. One of the coolest results involved predicting a user was going to click on something before they actually did. That was a ton of work and something I’m proud of. Your pupil reacts before you click in part because you expect something will happen after you click. So you can create biofeedback with a user's brain by monitoring their eye behavior, and redesigning the UI in real time to create more of this anticipatory pupil response. It’s a crude brain computer interface via the eyes, but very cool. And I’d take that over invasive brain surgery any day.
Other tricks to infer cognitive state involved quickly flashing visuals or sounds to a user in ways they may not perceive, and then measuring their reaction to it.
Another patent goes into details about using machine learning and signals from the body and brain to predict how focused, or relaxed you are, or how well you are learning. And then updating virtual environments to enhance those states. So, imagine an adaptive immersive environment that helps you learn, or work, or relax by changing what you’re seeing and hearing in the background."
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Q&A session with Dr Brian Greene, theoretical physicist, string theorist, and science populariser.
Recorded on 18 March 2016 in Sydney, Big Top Luna Park.
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With the vision of a futurist, experience of a technologist, mindset of an entrepreneur & heart of a humanist, Penny is an emerging technologies, payments, digital transformation project turnaround, management consultant, advisor, mentor & co-founder of Radmis. AI SaaS voice & messaging platform helping enterprise & govt. clients automate, secure, mitigate risk & bring systems to life through conversational AI. #MovingHumansUpTheValueChain Penny’s personal lifetime mission is to utilise AI to transform the AgedCare sector. She advocates technology for good, in connecting people & helping to create profound & positive impacts to society across global ecosystems & networks, promoting diversity & Ethics in AI, decentralized systems, innovation in governance, future of money, future of work & sustainability.
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Beyond Silicon: Exploring Extreme Future Scenarios
Alessandro Volpato
Telekom Innovation Laboratories
External Advisor - Biotechnology
Alessandro Volpato, M.Sc. In Biology, is designing innovative tools, enabling a collaborative research environment and simplifying the learning process. For instance, he is developing microfluidics tools for digitization and automation in biology laboratories, and developing an accessible course for analytical chemistry applied to biology and plant pigments. He participates also in communities like Biotinkering and TopLab giving workshops and fostering the discussion of scientific openness.
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Telekom Innovation Laboratories
Industry & University Collaborations - Scientific Partnerships Manager
Michal Dunaj is R&D Director in Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T-Labs), an applied research and exploration Lab in the Deutsche Telekom Group (DT). Dunaj holds a Ph.D. in management of innovation, where he addressed innovation barriers in networked applied research. Today he indeed connects industry-academia for T-Labs and oversees research operations and trials in DT footprint countries. His passion and purpose in work is #exploration, #creative leadership, #technology inclusion, #intelligent automation.
Michal is open to share and learn ideas leading to creative leadership in technology. One method he developed is the extreme exploration, combining bi-sociation and low cost digital makers approach. The bio-telco/beyond silicon interactive session is presented at MWC 2019 together with biologist Alessandro Volpato . As they say “what is extreme for one industry, can be a standard for another one. We found the way how to connect it.”
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A transhumanist reading of Max Tegmark's book - Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who’s helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.
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