Mark Wyner, "A New Dawn of the Human Experience"

Mark Wyner, Webvisions Portland, 2016

A NEW DAWN OF THE

Artificial Sentience and Fabricated Empathy in Cognitive Computing

HUMAN EXPERIENCE


Artificial Intelligence is All Around Us

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The global robot population is expected to double to four million by 2020.

Harvard Business Review


Artificial Intelligence is an Emulation of Our Humanity

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Technological Singularity occurs when machines are capable of recursive self-improvement and building other machines more advanced than themselves, yielding an intelligence surpassing all current human control or understanding.

I.J. Good, Mathematician/Cryptologist

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…even though these are very useful tools based on well-known mathematical methods, we actually understand surprisingly little of why certain models work and others don’t.

Alexander Mordvintsev, Google Software Engineer


The Promise of Artificial Intelligence


The Emotional Connection

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These robots will disappoint us if we are looking for human connection. Do we want to make them in such a way that we’re gonna love them? Because they will be pretending to love us.

Sherry Turkle, Cultural Analyst


Built-in intelligence providing psychological, physiological, and

social effects through physical interaction with humans


Friendly, helpful, and intelligent. He can sense and respond, and learns as you engage with him.


Cleaner floors, every day, all at the push of a button

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Mine, I feel they are different. Each one has different behavior. My Discovery—he’s more crazy. He runs into things and sometimes goes into different places he should not be going to. And the Scheduler—he’s more refined. He knows what he’s doing.

Research Participant Discussing His Roombas

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We did a non-warranty exchange and it was emotional. We had some real reservation knowing that we are going to send this one back to the company and we are going to get a different one back.

Research Participant Discussing Her Roomba

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There’s excitement from the tech press, but we’re also starting to see some negative threads about its being terrifying.

Courtney Hohne, Spokesperson for Google X

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A phenomenon whereby a computer-generated figure or humanoid robot bearing a near-identical resemblance to a human being, arouses a sense of unease or revulsion in the person viewing it.

Masahiro Mori, 1970, “The Uncanny Valley”


Trust, and the Irony of Governed Autonomy

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Every few days, Digit checks your spending habits and removes a few dollars from your checking account if you can afford it.

Digit Product Description


In a mock building fire, test subjects followed instructions

from an “Emergency Guide Robot” even after the machine had proven itself unreliable.

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We wanted to ask the question about whether people would be willing to trust these rescue robots. A more important question now might be to ask how to prevent them from trusting these robots too much.

Alan Wagner, Georgia Tech Research Engineer


Ethics and Laws for Autonomous Machines


Looking in the Mirror – The Evolution of Our Humanity


Will Robots Take Over the World?

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The cutting edge of programming isn’t super-smart programmers writing bots. It’s super-smart programmers writing bots that teach themselves how to do things the programmer could never teach them to do.

C.G.P. Grey

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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. He has got a fine Geneva watch, but he has lost the skill to tell the time by the sun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Creativity, Artistic Expression, and Engineering

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When I in dreams behold thy fairest shade, whose shade in dreams doth wake the sleeping morn, the daytime shadow of my love betray’d, lends hideous night to dreaming’s faded form.

Poetry App, by MIT PhD Student J. Nathan Matias


No, Really, Will Robots Take Over the World?


And Good Luck Out There

THANK YOU


Credits• Wooden robot image: Karolina Grabowska • Cognitive patents infographic: IBM • Empathy image: adapted from Buffer • Android Dick video capture: PBS • Telanoid R1 humanoid photo: Osaka University • Emergency Guide Robot image: Georgia Tech Research Institute • Nao video capture: Human Robot Interaction Laboratory, Tufts University • Robot cook image: Michael Bahlo • Tesla pedestrian detection image: Jalopnik • Robot ethics experiment image: Alan Winfield • Ethics brain image: Psychlite • Robot communication video: The Hunt for AI, BBC • Robot icon: Creative Stall • Human-emulation illustration: Emulate, Inc. • Mind gaps illustration: Ashley Mackenzie • Robot factory worker: Reuters/Issei Kato • A.I. illustration: Jason Salavon’s computer • All other images are stock, media resources, screenshots, or licensed under Creative Commons

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