TEDx UHasselt Salon 2013

smart-phone or sentient device ? the smart-phone as your sixth sense

Great to be here ! Working on Argus Labs / real-time contextualization API / sensor fusion and machine learning Working on a first book / age of dreaming machines (20143)

New devices. Same behavior.

The future is already here…

In order to see the potential, we need to look past the form factor…

… and into the heart of a smartphone

Eye: Camera & Light Sensor

Ear: Microphone

Mouth: Speaker

Memories: Internet

Orientation: Compass & GPS

Equilibrium: Gyroscope Sensor

Movement: Accelerometer & Motion Sensor

Brain: CPU/GPU

… see the resemblance ?

Eye: Camera & Light Sensor

Ear: Microphone

Mouth: Speaker

Brain: CPU

Spinal cord: Fiber optics

Memories: Internet

Orientation: Compass & GPS

Equilibrium: Gyroscope

Movement: Accelerometer & Motion

Touch: Pressure / Proximity

… sensors continually stay in touch with your environment

… and is able to interpret context

2013 processing nonverbal

communication

2000 carrying verbal communication

Advancement 1 Understand the behavior and

emotion of a user

Advancement 2 Semantic understanding for

reasoning machines

Advancement 3 Which in turn allows machines

to interpret your context

“ ... based on movement pattern detection, music mood inference, sentiment analysis on voice samples and deviating sleep patterns we have found that our algorithms are able to label a high probability for the subject to develop the symptoms of what we would call a depression, before the subject itself would become aware of his infliction “

First Step: 2013 - … human-machine wearables smart-phone: external CPU

Second Step: 2020 - … Implants and early adopters

Smart-phone: HUB

Third Step: 2020 - … Strong Artificial Intelligence

smart-phone: docking station

Our smart-phones are already a first generation of smart

agents that are able to understand our context and

anticipate our intentions

Welcome your sixth sense