ever since I was a young kid I’ve always
been enamored with the relationship
between things how objects in our world
relate to each other I’ve always found
that looking for that invisible thread
that kind of connects everything to be
just amazing once you find it example
one of my favorite examples is music we
have an individual that picks up an
instrument and that instrument
manipulates sound manipulates air that
air travels to our ears and our brains
turn that into sound before I know this
it’s just magic a very talented person
takes an instrument and magically I’m
hearing music but then once I break that
down and I see that relationship now
there’s a better understanding and the
world starts to make a little bit more
sense a little less magic but I really
like about finding these things out in
the world these relationships there’s
the cause and the fact between things is
every time I learn a new one a new
relationship it allows me to see the
world in a different way allows me see
the world in a way where we’re all
connected it sounds like a nice place
I’m very lucky to have a career in
software development my career allows me
to interact with emerging technologies
and play with very very fun gadgets
what’s nice about these technologies and
these gadgets is when they make it into
our office we get excited we play with
them like little children for a bit and
then at some point we’ve got to you know
get to work but when we get to work
it’s fun to look at the relationship
between this new technology and this new
gadget and how it’s gonna move forward
how are we gonna use this how we’re
gonna use this application this code
this hardware to affect people
the future and at the same time it’s
nice to step back and also look at what
brought this technology to us what
problems were there that needed to be
solved and that solution caused this to
to land on our desks right there’s a fun
relationship of present and future and
past to present now of these new
technologies and these new emerging
these new emerging hardware/software my
favorite are robotics and artificial
intelligence let me start with robotics
what I find fascinating about Romo
robotics is the design of it and how we
tend to design these things to reflect
ourselves if I were to ask most people
what’s a robot they would start to
describe something with two legs torso
some arms and a head very much in the
image of ourselves and it makes me
wonder why do we why do we do that why
why do we put ourselves so much into
this technology but then at the same
time we feel the technology is so far
away from us so it’s cold right compared
to to our humanity examples are lately
they’ve been creating drones drones that
are programmed like bees all right so
this thing will hover around you when
you go to swat it away it’ll move away
and then come back at you they’re also
moving drones around like flocks of
birds and like I said earlier the robots
that look like us us by pets but then
when they go into robots that are
hitting all terrain rough climates they
tend to model those after the animals
that are able to survive in those
climates
once again us putting ourselves and the
natural world around us into this
technology
now moving to AI currently with AI we’re
creating artificial neural networks
these networks are there to model our
brains once again taking ourselves and
putting it into the technology now some
feel that by doing this by creating this
artificial intelligence that is slowly
catching up to where we are our
intelligence that at some point an
events going to happen and things are
going to take off this artificial
intelligent intelligence it just can
become smarter and smarter faster than
we can imagine they have a term for it
and it’s called singularity singularity
is a term that was coined in 1950 by a
man called John von Neumann this theory
says that the invention of a super
artificial intelligence will far surpass
the human intelligence and go places
that we can’t even imagine this
intelligence will be able to upgrade
itself and then that will cause an
intelligence explosion that will be
something our civilization has never
seen now I think you know what comes
next
the computers rise up and then our
robotic overlords take over but I’m not
going to talk about that today I want to
take a step back I want to talk more
about the relationship of us and it’s
artificial intelligence this us and
these this these robotics that we keep
pushing closer and closer to who we are
we put ourselves in there what I find
fascinating about this is that by
looking at this technology that we make
we can actually see a reflection of
ourselves we can actually start to see
how we think of ourselves in this
universe with artificial intelligence
you have to I have to ask myself okay we
have this relationship with this
technology and in a complex world things
aren’t fair aren’t one-dimensional well
a lot of times we have lots of
two dimensional three dimensional we
live in three dimensional space and so
is there another thread we have this
thread between us artificial
intelligence is there another thread
that connects us to something that is
very much like our relationship with
artificial intelligence is there
something out there that engineered our
intelligence that used its image and
helped make us bring us to this point I
think about the universe and I think
about ourselves
and how you can find most of the
elements in our body all over the
universe and to me that feels like being
made in the image of something then I
think about how we create this
artificial intelligence and we put it
through trials right it goes out into
the world and we test it and it fails or
succeeds very much like the universe has
throws tons of trials and challenges at
us and we adapt we grow and then we pass
these things off to another generation
who will then try to surpass us much
like artificial intelligence is is
moving forward now I guess I said
earlier some people believe that is the
coming of the robot overlords but I
don’t see it that way I see it as an
opportunity if there is this
relationship between universe and us us
and this new intelligence that we’re
creating that means as we move forward
with that intelligence we’re also moving
forward with understanding where we are
in this universe and we also move
forward with understanding ourselves
going in and looking at the the the very
complicated and the nuances of our brain
and how that works and then taking that
and applying it to artificial
intelligence it’s almost like you know
on the surface we’re creating this
technology
to move faster to take in information
better comprehend the world around it
better but I see it to folt because as
that moves forward then we also get this
chance to understand ourselves
understand what it is that was so
special about us that we need to now
pass it on to this new emerging
intelligence I think that’s very cool
now let’s take a stuff forward let’s
look at more relationships that we have
that we have with our electronics our
gadgets these new it intelligences if I
sit here and I rub my feet on this
carpet I’ll build up build up a charge
and if I go and I contact with someone
they’ll get zapped there’s this
electricity that passes from me into
this person this connection right and it
shows that there is a connection all
around us right that invisible thread
that’s kind of tying us all together
very much like now this electrical
charge that’s you know between us all
it’s very much like a computer when you
turn it on it needs that constant charge
a charge discharging up all its parts
getting it all to work together and
without that charge things start to die
out and with this computer if I were to
crack it open and take a look at all of
the electrical boards and circuits in
there it very much looks like a little
city with these little roads that take
information from one place to another
running through transistors and
conductors that look like little
buildings that have their own little
purpose alright very much like our
cities and then when I get up in the
morning and I drive to work we jump on
these highways and we stream just stream
along from town to town city to city and
carry along with us the information that
we that we have inside kind of reminds
me of bits on a spherical hard drive
so with that as things are just getting
closer and closer and we start to just
see ourselves in this technology but yet
we also see ourselves in this universe I
begin to ask myself the question how
different from this this technology are
we are we not just robots creating other
robots and then the inverse of this is
how human how alive is this intelligence
that we’re starting to to bring up and
have emerge and pretty much everything
in our life so I feel that there is more
of a connection with the things that we
are creating that connection that thread
that goes between all of us and all the
things around us and instead of looking
at it as something where it’s this cold
kind of hard hardware as opposed to an
extension of ourselves so maybe instead
of this world-changing intelligence
maybe we’re just kind of hitting
singularity at a different degree first
there was a singularity of us where we
were put into the universe and then
finally we had a point where we start to
surpass we started to make our own homes
we started to create faster
transportation we got to the moon things
at the universe I don’t think intended
for us and now we’re talking about
colonizing inhabitable planets and how
does that relate to this new singularity
that we talked about where the computers
start to do stuff that we never intended
so I ask you again could we be the
robots thank you
you
you
been enamored with the relationship
between things how objects in our world
relate to each other I’ve always found
that looking for that invisible thread
that kind of connects everything to be
just amazing once you find it example
one of my favorite examples is music we
have an individual that picks up an
instrument and that instrument
manipulates sound manipulates air that
air travels to our ears and our brains
turn that into sound before I know this
it’s just magic a very talented person
takes an instrument and magically I’m
hearing music but then once I break that
down and I see that relationship now
there’s a better understanding and the
world starts to make a little bit more
sense a little less magic but I really
like about finding these things out in
the world these relationships there’s
the cause and the fact between things is
every time I learn a new one a new
relationship it allows me to see the
world in a different way allows me see
the world in a way where we’re all
connected it sounds like a nice place
I’m very lucky to have a career in
software development my career allows me
to interact with emerging technologies
and play with very very fun gadgets
what’s nice about these technologies and
these gadgets is when they make it into
our office we get excited we play with
them like little children for a bit and
then at some point we’ve got to you know
get to work but when we get to work
it’s fun to look at the relationship
between this new technology and this new
gadget and how it’s gonna move forward
how are we gonna use this how we’re
gonna use this application this code
this hardware to affect people
the future and at the same time it’s
nice to step back and also look at what
brought this technology to us what
problems were there that needed to be
solved and that solution caused this to
to land on our desks right there’s a fun
relationship of present and future and
past to present now of these new
technologies and these new emerging
these new emerging hardware/software my
favorite are robotics and artificial
intelligence let me start with robotics
what I find fascinating about Romo
robotics is the design of it and how we
tend to design these things to reflect
ourselves if I were to ask most people
what’s a robot they would start to
describe something with two legs torso
some arms and a head very much in the
image of ourselves and it makes me
wonder why do we why do we do that why
why do we put ourselves so much into
this technology but then at the same
time we feel the technology is so far
away from us so it’s cold right compared
to to our humanity examples are lately
they’ve been creating drones drones that
are programmed like bees all right so
this thing will hover around you when
you go to swat it away it’ll move away
and then come back at you they’re also
moving drones around like flocks of
birds and like I said earlier the robots
that look like us us by pets but then
when they go into robots that are
hitting all terrain rough climates they
tend to model those after the animals
that are able to survive in those
climates
once again us putting ourselves and the
natural world around us into this
technology
now moving to AI currently with AI we’re
creating artificial neural networks
these networks are there to model our
brains once again taking ourselves and
putting it into the technology now some
feel that by doing this by creating this
artificial intelligence that is slowly
catching up to where we are our
intelligence that at some point an
events going to happen and things are
going to take off this artificial
intelligent intelligence it just can
become smarter and smarter faster than
we can imagine they have a term for it
and it’s called singularity singularity
is a term that was coined in 1950 by a
man called John von Neumann this theory
says that the invention of a super
artificial intelligence will far surpass
the human intelligence and go places
that we can’t even imagine this
intelligence will be able to upgrade
itself and then that will cause an
intelligence explosion that will be
something our civilization has never
seen now I think you know what comes
next
the computers rise up and then our
robotic overlords take over but I’m not
going to talk about that today I want to
take a step back I want to talk more
about the relationship of us and it’s
artificial intelligence this us and
these this these robotics that we keep
pushing closer and closer to who we are
we put ourselves in there what I find
fascinating about this is that by
looking at this technology that we make
we can actually see a reflection of
ourselves we can actually start to see
how we think of ourselves in this
universe with artificial intelligence
you have to I have to ask myself okay we
have this relationship with this
technology and in a complex world things
aren’t fair aren’t one-dimensional well
a lot of times we have lots of
two dimensional three dimensional we
live in three dimensional space and so
is there another thread we have this
thread between us artificial
intelligence is there another thread
that connects us to something that is
very much like our relationship with
artificial intelligence is there
something out there that engineered our
intelligence that used its image and
helped make us bring us to this point I
think about the universe and I think
about ourselves
and how you can find most of the
elements in our body all over the
universe and to me that feels like being
made in the image of something then I
think about how we create this
artificial intelligence and we put it
through trials right it goes out into
the world and we test it and it fails or
succeeds very much like the universe has
throws tons of trials and challenges at
us and we adapt we grow and then we pass
these things off to another generation
who will then try to surpass us much
like artificial intelligence is is
moving forward now I guess I said
earlier some people believe that is the
coming of the robot overlords but I
don’t see it that way I see it as an
opportunity if there is this
relationship between universe and us us
and this new intelligence that we’re
creating that means as we move forward
with that intelligence we’re also moving
forward with understanding where we are
in this universe and we also move
forward with understanding ourselves
going in and looking at the the the very
complicated and the nuances of our brain
and how that works and then taking that
and applying it to artificial
intelligence it’s almost like you know
on the surface we’re creating this
technology
to move faster to take in information
better comprehend the world around it
better but I see it to folt because as
that moves forward then we also get this
chance to understand ourselves
understand what it is that was so
special about us that we need to now
pass it on to this new emerging
intelligence I think that’s very cool
now let’s take a stuff forward let’s
look at more relationships that we have
that we have with our electronics our
gadgets these new it intelligences if I
sit here and I rub my feet on this
carpet I’ll build up build up a charge
and if I go and I contact with someone
they’ll get zapped there’s this
electricity that passes from me into
this person this connection right and it
shows that there is a connection all
around us right that invisible thread
that’s kind of tying us all together
very much like now this electrical
charge that’s you know between us all
it’s very much like a computer when you
turn it on it needs that constant charge
a charge discharging up all its parts
getting it all to work together and
without that charge things start to die
out and with this computer if I were to
crack it open and take a look at all of
the electrical boards and circuits in
there it very much looks like a little
city with these little roads that take
information from one place to another
running through transistors and
conductors that look like little
buildings that have their own little
purpose alright very much like our
cities and then when I get up in the
morning and I drive to work we jump on
these highways and we stream just stream
along from town to town city to city and
carry along with us the information that
we that we have inside kind of reminds
me of bits on a spherical hard drive
so with that as things are just getting
closer and closer and we start to just
see ourselves in this technology but yet
we also see ourselves in this universe I
begin to ask myself the question how
different from this this technology are
we are we not just robots creating other
robots and then the inverse of this is
how human how alive is this intelligence
that we’re starting to to bring up and
have emerge and pretty much everything
in our life so I feel that there is more
of a connection with the things that we
are creating that connection that thread
that goes between all of us and all the
things around us and instead of looking
at it as something where it’s this cold
kind of hard hardware as opposed to an
extension of ourselves so maybe instead
of this world-changing intelligence
maybe we’re just kind of hitting
singularity at a different degree first
there was a singularity of us where we
were put into the universe and then
finally we had a point where we start to
surpass we started to make our own homes
we started to create faster
transportation we got to the moon things
at the universe I don’t think intended
for us and now we’re talking about
colonizing inhabitable planets and how
does that relate to this new singularity
that we talked about where the computers
start to do stuff that we never intended
so I ask you again could we be the
robots thank you
you
you
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