Visions of the Future
1. The Intelligence Revolution
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Introduction: Leading theoretical physicist and futurist Michio Kaku shows how in this century Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to become as ubiquitous as electricity
Duration: 02:09Masters of Intelligence computers and machines - Asimo. IBM 1401 compared with a mobile phone 300,000 times faster so we already have a smarter world,
Duration: 02:10Smart cars and smart roads The self-steering self-drive car using laser sensors and gps with the power of just 8 desktop computers. Archive footage - (City of tomorrow) - Ubiquitous computing
Duration: 01:57Ubiquitous computing (Paul Saffo, Stanford University), connected and embedded, invisible, networked
Duration: 02:37Intelligent glasses connected to the internet (Google glasses prediction)
Duration: 00:58Virtual Reality: Virtual dancing: Ubiquitous computing for all with machine intelligence changing our relationships with each other, 3D tele-immersion for virtual parties and virtual meetings and events: Virtual reality, Avatars in 'Second Life' having dates, then marrying in real life. Ray Kurzweil and Jaron Lanier comment, Professor Susan Greenfiled (University of Oxford) comments about multiple personalities, World of Warcraft the virtual world game for sanitised life
Duration: 12:16Artificial Intelligence (AI): Intelligent machines and the human condition predictions (Archive footage). Narrow AI (Ray Kurzweil ) becoming broader into thinking machines - Superbot modular (polymorphic) robots (Dr Wei-Mim Shen, UCLA)
Duration: 03:28Robots need Pattern Recognition and Hearing interpretation for intelligence: MIT object recognition skills for machines (Professor Tomaso Poggio)
Duration: 04:07A walking robot: The relationship between man and Intelligent Machines. Honda's Asimo. The Japanese Robot Museum, Professor Susan Greenfiled (University of Oxford) about human interaction with robots (Marvin)
Duration: 06:48Robots with emotions for higher intelligence to good and bad decisions ('A for Andromeda') - Professor Rosalind Picard (MIT), Ray Kurzweil, Marvin from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Doctor Who. Laws for the more human and smarter robot who may develop their own agenda (Professor Marvin Minsky, MIT), Eliezer Yudkowski of the Singularity Institute for AI at Palo Alto re. Science fiction robots (The Day the Earth Stood Still)
Duration: 06:37Merging our minds with machines, The Right Kind of Intelligent Machines and our own enhanced intelligence - both choices we have: The brain pacemaker implant (Dr Ali Rezai, Neuromodulation Centre, Cleveland Clinic) helped with a 3D brain scan, for Diane who became 'a whole new person'
Duration: 07:48A memory chip brain implant, a vision chip, a thinking chip (Ray Kurzweil) by the 2040's. Professor Rodney Brooks (MIT) predicts more crossovers between people and robots. A hippocampus replacement chip (Dr John Granacki, UCLA) for humans. How many enhancements before we lose the sense of being human? The techno-haves and have-nots
Duration: 06:11Summary: Becoming masters of our intelligence
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