TEDx Leuven 2012

Living with Big Mother!your future with smart-phones agents

Presented by Filip Maertens!at TEDx Leuven 2012

Me

Billie Filip Maertens (age 7)

With great power, comes great responsibility

Every year we generate twice the data than past 5.000 years together.

Most of it is noise!

With great power, comes great responsibility

250M tweets/day

I don’t read!250M photos/day

I don’t like!3M check-ins/day

I don’t care!

5,170,000,000 useless results

I’m not finding it!

The internet collective brain is huge!

How to process this ?!

neural impulses fiber optic 120 m/s 200,000,000 m/s!

We will continue to further outsource and offload some of our

cognitive capabilities to smart agents!

Bring me relevant information to me!

Let’s get personal!

Human generated data

is unreliable!

We don’t look beyond the

obvious

rich data = human data + observed data

“Hey, I’m at TEDx Leuven #tedx”

I Like TEDx on Facebook and use the #tedx tag on Twitter

As a male + positioned at 50.881174,4.712276 + facing NE direction + ambient light of 37% + made 137 footsteps + 120 dB

I have visited TEDx events already 5 times, in 2 different countries, hereby

travelling 2.137 km in total distance

Human Machine

smart phone or interconnected sensory device!

Motion sensor 3-axis gyroscope

Accelerometer Compass and GPS

Pressure sensor Microphone

Proximity sensor Ambient Light sensor

Moisture sensor!

Eyes = Camera and Light Sensor Ears = Microphone and Decibel Meter Speech = Speakers Brain = CPU / GPU Memory = Internet Spinal Cord = Fiber optic / autonomous Orientation = Compass and GPS Equilibrium = Gyroscope Movement = Accelerometer Touch = Pressure Sensor

Eyes = Camera and Light Sensor Ears = Microphone and Decibel Meter Speech = Speakers Brain = CPU / GPU Memory = Internet Spinal Cord = 3G/GPRS/Wi-Fi Orientation = Compass and GPS Equilibrium = Gyroscope Movement = Accelerometer & Motion Touch = Pressure Sensor

= Proximity Sensor (IR)

smart phones will become the

primary cognitive agent platform!

Playground 1: putting the ghost in the machine!

Machine Learning + Deep Data!

Some of our early findings:!implicit social networks vague search queries

determine sex determine sleeping patterns determine your job cohort

determine your marital loyalty ...

Playground 2: making your interaction easy!

Human-Machine Interfacing!

… still a lot of experimenting to go !!

Playground 3: living with a synthetic personality!

Develop the ego and super-ego!

“Hi, Dave. I couldn’t help but notice that it’s your girlfriend’s

birthday next week, so I booked her favorite restaurant and ordered some flowers to

be delivered. I hope that’s OK?”

First wave: Tag Based Affinity Networks + ISN!

Startups many investors like!

Second wave: Computerlinguistics, Deep data and ANN!

Startups many investors look for!

Challenges for early intelligent agents:!•  Location-centric!•  Battery life!•  UX / UI!•  Sensory accuracy!•  Privacy regulations!

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Cognitive agents will help transcend human limitations!

smart-phones are instrumental!

Consumer cognitive agents will live on social networks!

smart-phones = panoptic devices!

Privacy?

Innovation keyword-based search engines Predictive inspiration machines!

big brother big mother!

Say Hi to your virtual agent and best friend for years to come…!