ACM 97 Toward a truly personal computer Pattie Maes MIT Media Lab Firefly Network, Inc
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PATTIE MAES
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50 years of ACM 50 years of AI Artificial Intelligence (AI): goal: build intelligent machines justification: – understand intelligence – practical applications
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AI’s holy grail
ACM 97 Cog project (Brooks, MIT)
ACM 97 Cog project (Brooks, MIT)
ACM 97 Next 50 yrs: IA rather than AI? Intelligence Augmentation: human + machine = super intelligence
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Next 50 yrs: IA rather than AI? Intelligence Augmentation: human + machine = super intelligence
ACM 97 History of prosthetics Overcoming physical limitations: – glasses – hearing aids – cars – bicycles – voice synthesizers –...
ACM 97 Why do we need prosthetics for the mind? Overcoming cognitive limitations: – lousy memory – only dealing with one thing at a time – probabilities, logic non-intuitive – slow to process large amounts of information –...
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Why do we need prosthetics for the mind? mismatch complexity of our lives & our cognitive abilities: – too many things to keep track of – information overload – learn & remember more –...
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People are good at: judgement understanding reasoning, problem solving creativity
ACM 97 Computers are good at: remembering lots of facts searching lots of information being in many places at once multi-tasking
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Some examples of intelligence augmentation memory augmentation “extra eyes, ears” automation behavior patterns information filtering matchmakers transactions
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Remembrance agent (MIT Media Lab)
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Remembrance agent (MIT Media Lab)
ACM 97 Memory augmentation help remember people, places, names, actions,... provide "just-in-time" information
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Memory augmentation help remember people, places, names, actions,... provide "just-in-time" information
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Remembrance agent
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Extra eyes, ears,... monitors for bits as well as atoms: – unusual price stocks – has certain site changed? – need more milk? – is there fresh coffee? –...
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Extra eyes, ears,... monitors for bits as well as atoms: – unusual price stocks – has certain site changed? – need more milk? – is there fresh coffee? –...
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Automation behavior patterns (Media Lab)
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Automation behavior patterns (Media Lab)
ACM 97 Information Filtering personal INFO information FILTERED INFO user filter user interest profile
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Information Filtering personal INFO information FILTERED INFO user filter user interest profile
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Yenta (MIT Media Lab) agent (user profile)
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Yenta (MIT Media Lab) agent (user profile)
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Kasbah (MIT Media Lab)
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Kasbah example selling agent Sell: Macintosh IIci – Deadline: March 10th,1997 – Start price: $ – Min. price: $ – Strategy: tough bargainer – Location: local – Level of Autonomy: check before transaction – Reporting Method: event driven
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Kasbah example selling agent Sell: Macintosh IIci – Deadline: March 10th,1997 – Start price: $ – Min. price: $ – Strategy: tough bargainer – Location: local – Level of Autonomy: check before transaction – Reporting Method: event driven
ACM 97 Putting it all together Example scenarios: – monitoring agents & remembrance agents – shopping agents & matchmaking agents – eager assistants & filtering agents –...
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Hardware: “wearable computers”
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Hardware: “things that think” embedded sensors processors communications
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Software: “Agents” Software that is: personalized proactive autonomous, long-lived adaptive
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Software: “Digital Ecologies” collections of people & machines: perform tasks in radically distributed way very adaptive collaboration, competition, natural selection & evolution
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“The network is the computer” TM small efforts by many, rather than large efforts by few result in increased: – efficiency – adaptivity – robustness
ACM 97 Design challenges TRUST between human and computer: understanding control privacy
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Design challenges TRUST between human and computer: understanding control privacy
ACM 97 James Burke Master of Ceremonies
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Pattie Maes