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From the Ted Talk by Maurice Conti: The incredible inventions of intuitive AI

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Welcome to the Augmented Age. In this new era, your natural human capabilities are going to be augmented by ctmaupotiaonl ssmyets that help you think, robotic systems that help you make, and a digital nervous system that connects you to the world far beyond your natural snsees. Let's start with cognitive augmentation. How many of you are augmented cyorbgs?

(Laughter)

I would actually argue that we're already augmented. Imagine you're at a praty, and somebody asks you a question that you don't know the anewsr to. If you have one of these, in a few seconds, you can know the answer. But this is just a primitive beginning. Even Siri is just a passive tool. In fact, for the last three-and-a-half million years, the tools that we've had have been completely passive. They do exactly what we tell them and nothing more. Our very first tool only cut where we struck it. The chisel only carves where the artist points it. And even our most advanced tools do nothing without our explicit direction. In fact, to date, and this is something that futtrsaers me, we've always been limited by this need to manually push our wills into our tools — like, mnuaal, lrlaeltiy using our hands, even with computers. But I'm more like Scotty in "Star Trek."

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Welcome to the Augmented Age. In this new era, your natural human capabilities are going to be augmented by _____________ _______ that help you think, robotic systems that help you make, and a digital nervous system that connects you to the world far beyond your natural ______. Let's start with cognitive augmentation. How many of you are augmented _______?

(Laughter)

I would actually argue that we're already augmented. Imagine you're at a _____, and somebody asks you a question that you don't know the ______ to. If you have one of these, in a few seconds, you can know the answer. But this is just a primitive beginning. Even Siri is just a passive tool. In fact, for the last three-and-a-half million years, the tools that we've had have been completely passive. They do exactly what we tell them and nothing more. Our very first tool only cut where we struck it. The chisel only carves where the artist points it. And even our most advanced tools do nothing without our explicit direction. In fact, to date, and this is something that __________ me, we've always been limited by this need to manually push our wills into our tools — like, ______, _________ using our hands, even with computers. But I'm more like Scotty in "Star Trek."

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  5. systems
  6. computational
  7. senses
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  9. cyborgs

Original Text


Welcome to the Augmented Age. In this new era, your natural human capabilities are going to be augmented by computational systems that help you think, robotic systems that help you make, and a digital nervous system that connects you to the world far beyond your natural senses. Let's start with cognitive augmentation. How many of you are augmented cyborgs?

(Laughter)

I would actually argue that we're already augmented. Imagine you're at a party, and somebody asks you a question that you don't know the answer to. If you have one of these, in a few seconds, you can know the answer. But this is just a primitive beginning. Even Siri is just a passive tool. In fact, for the last three-and-a-half million years, the tools that we've had have been completely passive. They do exactly what we tell them and nothing more. Our very first tool only cut where we struck it. The chisel only carves where the artist points it. And even our most advanced tools do nothing without our explicit direction. In fact, to date, and this is something that frustrates me, we've always been limited by this need to manually push our wills into our tools — like, manual, literally using our hands, even with computers. But I'm more like Scotty in "Star Trek."

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