singularity - fiction or future?

FICTION FUTURE

WHAT IS A SINGULARITY ?

civilization changes so much that its

rules and technologies are

incomprehensible to previous

generations

extremely rapid technological and

scientific changes

Imagine:

explaining the internet to somebody living in the year 1200

SINGULARITY MODEL

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Nanobots & Gray Goo Cybernetics (Genome)

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artificial intelligence

artificial intelligence

“Since the design of machines is an intellectual activity, an

ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines.

There will then be an “intelligence explosion”, and the

intelligence of man would be left far behind.

Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention of

mankind”

- I. J. Good, 1965

SINGULARITY MODEL

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Cybernetics (Genome)

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Artificial Intelligence

Nanobots & Gray Goo

The self-replicating molecular

machine.

• Ability to build machines that

manipulate matter at the

atomic level.

• Control our world in the most

granular way imaginable.

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Nanobots & Gray Goo

SINGULARITY MODEL

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Nanobots & Gray Goo

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Synthetic biology, genetic engineering, and other life sciences

will eventually give us control of the human genome.

• We could engineer new forms of life and change the

course of human evolution in one generation with

enhanced capabilities. [Superpower]

• Allow us to tinker with the mechanisms that make us age,

thus dramatically increasing our lifespans. [Longevity]

SINGULARITY MODEL

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Nanobots & Gray Goo

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WILL THEY HAPPEN ?

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Vs

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

HUMAN INTELLIGENCE

• Learning & Adaptation

• Reasoning & Planning

• Perceiving & Reacting

• Feeling & Emotion

• Understanding of language

Theory and development of

computer systems able to

perform tasks that normally

require human intelligence

HOW HAS AI EVOLVED...?

HISTORY OF AI

ASK THE EXPERTS...

RAY KURZWEIL - GOOGLE

Ray Kurzweil“The Heir to Thomas Edison”

Google’s Director of Engineering

Author of “The Singularity Is Near”

“The Age of Spiritual Machines”

The Law of Accelerating Returns

“Fundamental measures of information technology development follow predictable and exponential trajectories."

"As exponential growth continues to accelerate into the first half of the twenty-first century and will likely explode into infinity soon after.

Kurzweil is optimistic. • Planning on creating a simulated version of his late father• Nanobots will enhance our immune systems by 2030. He’s

planning on living forever, more or less. • If he dies, he plans to be perfused with cryoprotectants,

vitrified in liquid nitrogen and hope that future medical technology will repair his tissues and revive him.

http://futurism.com/images/the-dawn-of-the-singularity/

EVENT & INTERVIEW

“Are you ready for brain-chip implant?”

Captain HoffCaptain of Founder Space (SV)

Tech Evangelist & Angel Investor

• Top 10 Incubator in Inc. Magazine• #1 Accelerator in Silicon Valley for

overseas startups by Forbes.

“It is just a matter of when.”

Ted WillichCEO/Founder of NLP Logix

Expert in ML & Computer Vision

• Aim to deliver AI’s business value• Serial Techopreneur in Machine

Learning & AI field

WHERE ARE WE TODAY... IN 2016

EXISTING APPLICATIONS

INDUSTRIAL

Autonomous Vehicles

Fleet Telematics

AUTOMOTIVE

Machine Vision System

Predictive Analytics

MEDICAL

Predictive Diagnosis

Image Analysis

EXISTING APPLICATIONS

Stock Trading Model

Fraud Detections

FINANCE CONSUMER

Chatbot Technology

AI Private Assistant

BUSINESS

Gaming & Entertainment

Immersive Wearables

RECENT UPDATES

UTOPIAN TIMES AHEAD...?


Nanotechnology Genetic Engineering

3D Printing & robotics Cybernetics

Synthetic Biology

OR MAYBE NOT ?

When AI Screws Up, It Screws Up Badly

On TV show Jeopardy players in 2011, IBM’s Watson was asked:“What country’s largest airport is named for a World War II hero; its second largest, for a World War II battle.” Watson: “What is Toronto?”


“Watson absolutely surprises me. People ask: 'Why did it get that one wrong?' I don't know. People ask: 'Why did it get that one right?' I don't know.”

- David Ferrucci, the Lead Researcher of IBM Watson


INDUSTRIAL AUTOMOTIVE MEDICAL

FINANCE CONSUMER BUSINESS

AI RESEARCH & POLICY

NEXT 15 YEARS

• Large-scale machine learning

• Deep learning

• Reinforcement learning

• Robotics

• Computer vision

• Natural Language Processing

• Collaborative systems

• Crowdsourcing and human

computation

• Algorithmic game theory and

computational social choice

• Internet of Things (IoT)

• Neuromorphic Computing

STILL SCI-FI...?