Humans and Intelligent Machines - The Cognitive Fabric Agenda
Transcript of Humans and Intelligent Machines - The Cognitive Fabric Agenda
BETTER THINKING. BETTER DECISIONS. BETTER WORLD.
THE COGNITIVE FABRIC AGENDA
October 2016
Neil MovoldFounder & CEO
Humans and Intelligent Machines
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What is the role of humans in a world of
intelligent machines?
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What is the biggest challenge facing
most students, businesses and home lives?
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Lack of insight at school
60% of new enrolments at universities in
North America are female, who are increasingly worried about achieving top grades, socializing,
their social status and money
49% of students feel stress on a daily basis
coping with school and homework
25% of students struggle to find relevant
information when starting a project
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Lack of insight at work
35% of the top 5,000 global companies regularly fail to make insightful decisions about significant changes in their business and markets (source: Gartner)
65% executives agree increasinglycomplex business environmenthas made it more difficult to base decisions on purely “functional” factor such as cost, quality or efficiency (source:
gyro/FORTUNE Knowledge Group)
61% executives agree when making decisions, human insights must precede hard analytics (source: gyro/FORTUNE
Knowledge Group)
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Lack of insight at home
Our Founder’s situation:
Son born with Spina Bifida – certain to spend rest of his life in wheelchair
Daughter not meeting her goals and Government refuses change of schools
Wife recovering from 1 in 10 million cancer
Father is sole income provider with strong passion to change the world
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How can you engage a world that is
increasingly more complex, with
more uncertainties than ever before?
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Who can I ask and what can I do to help my sonwith spina bifida walk some day and live a longand fulfilling life in a small country?
You’ll need to
bless your lucky starsfor this one, using existing
systems and approaches!
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What you really need is knowledge and
suggestions you can act on
• from intelligent systems
• and from people you trust
• when you need them
• specific to your complex needs
Context Matters
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Without context, words and actions have no meaning at all
Context provides deeper situational awareness driving
insight into actions
Clutter to meaning, search to discovery, hard taxonomies to more
organic synthesis –
context humanizes data
But context matters…
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What is the price of not knowing?
Data + Analytics = Information
Information + Context = Insight
Insight + Actions = Desired Outcomes
Knowledge is power!
65% executives agree increasingly complex business environment has made it more difficult
to base decisions on purely “functional” factor such as
cost, quality or efficiency (source: gyro/FORTUNE Knowledge Group)
61% executives agree when making decisions, human insights must precede hard analytics (source: gyro/FORTUNE
Knowledge Group)
By 2020 - 1.7MB of new information will be created
every second for every human being on the
planet, yet 80% is unstructured dark data
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Adapting knowledge for new contexts & insights
Approaching context with intent to extractapplicable knowledge and cost
effectively transfer it to any different or
future situational contexts on demand
New context
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Collective intelligence + co-creation
Combining and recombining ourknowledge with others in differing
situational contexts, brings agility and speed
enabling cost savings, time savingand reduction in manual effort
Knowledge Fueled Cognitive Fabric
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Info + context via knowledge fueled cognitive fabric
Repurposing knowledge fuel to
co-create new digital learningobjects and insights
Promoting higher orderthinking through collective
adaptive capacity
Deeper situational awareness
Facilitating and empowering
continual learning
INHERENTLYEXPANDABLE
NATURE
SOCIAL CAPITAL
AMPLIFIED REALTIME
FLOW
COGNITIVEFABRIC
DISTRIBUTEDSENSEMAKING
structured / unstructured
internal & external content
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Your human brain and memories
Your digital knowledgein the cognitive fabric
Context 2(e.g. school project)
Context 3(e.g. new job)
Your growing knowledge and insights over timeare used, reused and shared with others in the
cognitive fabric to gain new and timelyunderstanding for any given situational context
Context 1(e.g. health issue)
Info + context via knowledge fueled cognitive fabric
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Adapting diversity of ideas and
perspectives with others seeds
and accelerates
ongoing knowledge growth, understanding and awareness
Dynamic and organic discovery of new ideas and insights
not otherwise aware of,
not known to look for or
previously unusable
Info + context via knowledge fueled cognitive fabric
Aha!!Thanks
Hi! Yes, I know something that
might help
structured / unstructured
internal & external content
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Shared adaptive capacity creates newlearning partnerships that find,
activate and cultivate deep
learning potential
Everyone is a questioner, a
teacher, a learner
Building greater wisdom from
higher learning retention across
an artificial neural network
structured / unstructured
internal & external content
INHERENTLYEXPANDABLE
NATURE
SOCIAL CAPITAL
AMPLIFIED REALTIME
FLOW
DISTRIBUTEDSENSEMAKING
Info + context via knowledge fueled cognitive fabric
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Cognitive fabric’s unique convergence
Combining the strengths of four core areas of
being Human and
Machine Intelligence
Collaborative, co-creative social
learning in context uncovers thelearning process, not manages it
Surfaces hard data from softinteractions such as search,
collaboration, annotation, and curation
Learning CognitiveComputing
SocialNetwork Science
Social
Self-Directed
Visual Thinking
Sensemaking
Ideation
Critical Thinking
ExperientialLinked Data
Big Data
Context Enhanced Services
Structured Data
Unstructured Data
Semi-structured Data
Graph Theory
Inferential Modelling
Data Mining
Social Structures
Statistical Mechanics
Collaboration
Collective Intelligence
Co-Creation
Trust Relationships
Gamification
Curation
Influence
INHERENTLYEXPANDABLE
NATURE
SOCIAL CAPITAL
AMPLIFIED REALTIME
FLOW
DISTRIBUTEDSENSEMAKING
Reasoning
Your Smartest Frienda means of engaging the Cognitive Fabric
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Your Smartest Friend™ engages the cognitive fabric
An intelligent digital assistantwith a difference
Helps you understand the
real context
Learns and grows
along with you
Provides you with new and
relevant knowledge
Puts you in control – no
unnecessary assumptions
Engages the cognitive fabric to
identify individuals with
relevant knowledge
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Your Smartest Friend™ - our 1st generation
Intelligent cloud-based collaborative context curation and discovery platform
Visual Thinking + Contextual Intelligence + Intelligent Discovery = New Actionable Insights
Human led engagement enhances ability to draw insights from
previously unusable dark data
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Real-life example – spina bifida in New Zealand
Knowledge development and learning is concerned with understandingrelationships, sometimes complex and changing
Nurturing and maintaining relationships facilitates continual learning
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Inquire. Connect. Enlighten.
Foundation of Engaging Social Interactions –
knowledge is profoundly social
along with
provides, when
filtered, our which when
augmented with
produces those
sought after
Insights or “Aha
Moments!”
Visual Thinking and
Context Enhanced
Sensemaking
Which powers continual
inquiry and learning
causeschemical reaction!
Growing
Situational
Knowledge
What we can access
via Search
What we know
& hear
How value creation occurs
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The evolving universal human experience – the Aha! Journey
Value creation of scarce resources
Value is created by repeatedly guiding and empoweringindividuals through a co-creative process of reusing
knowledge and discovering new and unimaginable insights
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Value creation benefits
Individual benefits
• Perceiving the world differently
• Sifting through the hay stack to find the truths without bias
• Overcoming inability to understand what is being seen and not taking proper action
• Better understanding of why certain things are happening or happening not in the way anticipated
• Becoming a better, more productive critical thinker
Organizational benefits
• Providing far better “headlights” into an increasingly volatile and complex future
• Smarter knowledge distribution so relevant knowledge is available when needed
• Greater communication to fuel innovation
• Uncover patterns, opportunities and actionable hypotheses traditionally impossible to discover
• Capture and repurpose tacit knowledge that usually leaves with staff turnover
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“I feel my brain working in different ways as I was forming connections between the knowledge I created.” Christine, PhD candidate, English
“I liked seeing visual evidence of how my ideas were evolving, and how the concepts related to each other.” Michael, PhD candidate
“It Googles for the things I wouldn’t have thought to Google.” Lucy, Corporate Researcher
By the numbers so far
The Vision to Enrich Human Life
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Critical Thinking
Innovation
CommunicationProblem Solving
CollaborationCreativity
Sense-Making
Social Intelligence
Trans-disciplinary
CrossCultural
Competency
Novel andAdaptiveThinking
Contextual IntelligenceDigital services that use beneficial, contextualunderstanding and intelligent decisions to
make lives easier, faster and more fun
21st Century Learning Skills
21st Century Work Skills
We are enriching human life by empowering the connected world by upskilling the ability
to advance all critical thinking and apply previously unforeseen insights
Our vision - enrich human life with 21st Century skills
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InsightNG and our partnership with IBM
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Bridging the gap between Humans and Machines
AUTOMATED &
VISUALISED
MANUAL
INFORMATION
CAPTURE
• Natural language
• Machine learning
• Pattern identification
• Eliminating bias
• Endless capacity
• Dilemmas
• Imagination
• Common sense
• Perspective
• Abstraction
Enhancing systems with the cognitive fabric necessary to enable betterdecision making by using contextual intelligence to combine
cognitive computing and human reasoning
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Crowd training the AI with a boundless scarce resource
Context specific user-generated knowledge graphs are used to continuously train and
evolve the cognitive fabric’s machine
intelligence
Shared adaptive capacity creates
new learning partnerships that
find, activate and cultivate deep
learning potential
Everyone is a questioner, a
teacher, a learner
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Case Studies – cognitive fabric uses in real life
Precision Health (Medicine)• Exploiting a fundamentally different digital paradigm
to empower a patient-centred
• Decreasing time from insight to decision to action
• Greater agility and speed enabling cost savings, time savings and reduction in manual effort towards the accurate and timely diagnosis and treatment process
Education• Smarter knowledge distribution, collaboration and co-
creation amongst peers, teachers and communities
• Enhanced involvement in classroom
• Improved academic confidence
• Encourages deeper learning and an active voice shaping student ideas and values
• Greater preparedness when leaving school
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Case Studies – cognitive fabric uses in real life
Corporate• More intelligent management across the organisation
• Capture and re-use tacit knowledge that usually leaves with staff turnover
• Controlling information and knowledge as a strategic asset
• Improved employee performance – accessing relevant knowledge when needed
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Our vision – where we are heading
1st Generation
2nd Generation
3rd Generation
Individual UX focus
Contextualization engine
Visual Thinking UI
Context curation
Knowledge gathering and exploration
Knowledge re-use
Scalable architecture
Multi-platform (mobile)
Automated multi-user knowledge discovery & sharing
IBM Watson integration
Integrated Blockchain
Inherently expandable nature
Actionable knowledge as a service
Multi-user social co-creation
Social Capital
Social Learning
Amplified real-time flow of external sources (structured,
unstructured, semi-structured)
Fully distributed sensemaking
Collective / collaborative intelligence
Integrated context-aware services (device, location, etc.)
Strong viral community effects (organic self-developing communities of practice / interests)
Strong, vibrant domain experts
Full enterprise grade platform
(Q4 2015)
(2016)
Social Impact Initiatives
Impact Investment
We are developing spontaneously
evolving systems of collectiveadaptive capacity that upskill
and enhance human capacity in
an increasingly complex world
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Are you interested in learning more or collaborating on evolving the vision?
If so, get in touch!
Contact me at [email protected]
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