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It’s often said that history repeats itself. Many times in the course of our history, new technologies have wiped out entire workforces. For upcoming generations, the rise of artificial intelligence represents the next great solution and the next great hurdle. Robin believes how we respond to this challenge, could be our defining moment as a species.
Robin Winsor is a technology leader and entrepreneur who has led several organizations from start-up to international success. Before joining Cybera as President and CEO in 2010, Winsor invented and developed the world’s first direct digital x-ray system, and holds multiple patents in the medical, well-logging and seismic industries. He is a past recipient of a Manning Innovation Award, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for outstanding service to Canada. He is a staunch advocate for transparency and lower cost information sharing through advancements in technology.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx Robin Winsor is a highly influential visionary and executive in the technology field, who is known for being both a playful and provocative agent of change. Born in Scotland, Winsor grew up with a passion for both science and adventure, moving to Canada in 1982 to pursue both. Over the course of his extraordinary career, he invented the world’s first direct digital x-ray imaging device, and has led a
not-for-profit technology accelerator to become one of Canada’s most vocal champions for the digitally disadvantaged.
He joined Cybera as President and CEO in 2010. Under his leadership, the company’s mandate has expanded to provide digital services to Alberta’s K-12, startup, First Nations and public sectors. Cybera is now widely credited for overseeing the continuous development of Alberta’s cyberinfrastructure, while advocating for improvements to the availability and accessibility of technology, for all Canadians. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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There are two instances mentioning the number of the beast, 666, in the Bible. One, in Revelation, referring to the measure of a man, as marked on the forehead or hand of a person. Makes you think of biometric ID, no? One cannot buy or sell without the mark of the beast, the measure of a man. What is the beast? What else would you call a general AI which handles all algorithms necessary to measure any individual human? Oh, you think that everyone will receive a UBI for free? Even terrorists? Make no mistake, the Social Credit Score in China will be globally adopted, and one will only be able to buy or sell if they are able to have the mark of the beast, the measure of a man. Yet by which rubric are we measuring? The elite will use economics and statist rubrics that do not necessarily imbue everyone with the sort of unalienable rights that Judeo-Christian Western philosophy embedded into the Constitution with great success. Thus the mark of the beast, the measure of a man will be the prime power in the world which will redefine the value of humanity, and an individual human based on purely economic or governmental terms… or even worse, they read this and introduce some sort of theological overtones in the beast as to alleviate these concerns. Two, the number 666 appears as the amount of talents of gold Solomon made each year… the splendour of Solomon as some say. This is that which, for some, greatly defined Solomon… his vast annual wage. The attribute that defines Solomon and his glory, his economic worth.The mark of the beast, the measure of a man, 666 talents of gold a year, the splendour of Solomon… Solomon the man who had everything so he resorted to pursuing meaning in pleasure and excess… a man who did not need to work. A man who eventually said all is vanity. This is the prophecy for humanity: the mark of the beast will reduce the value of humanity to something subhuman, and it will force all people into subjugation to a system of control and economic obscurity, perhaps under faux theological standards or purely economic, all under the power of the beast/the AI which will rule the world, all the while those who are judged worthy will have everything they need, in economic terms, and without striving or purpose, resort to pure pleasure seeking and self fulfilment, only to find that all is vanity, and the beast not a good God after all, and neither are those who worship the beast, holding it in awe and reverence, dedicating their lives and work to sustaining the beast and the system it represents… neither are they good. Poor Isaacs, Social Credit Score, general AI, UBI, the themes of the value and worth of humanity… the essence of the same… the nature of precarious technologies in need of central control, economical, geopolitically… the zeitgeist of globalism… there are enormous appendages to the future beast converging all at once, and those who are actively stitching them together. Trying to be the first trillion dollar AI company? Trying to be the nation state which assures eternal global hegemony through achieving the first general AI? Combine credit worthiness, surveillance/advertising id, tracking, digital history, political views, economic power, skill bases, neuroticism, stability…. call it all social engineering. Whatever else. There IS a Beast coming. It will have the power to given each person a mark, biometric or not, though all people are born with unique IDs on their retinas and palm prints (most all). There IS a need to be aware. NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR ATHEISM, YOUR SKEPTICISM OR YOUR CLOSED MINDED COMMENTS. HOWEVER, IF YOU DARE TO DANCE AMONG THE STARTLING THEMES MENTIONED IN THESE ANCIENT WRITINGS, PLEASE DO SO. THE APPLICATION TO THIS CIRCUMSTANCE IS STARTLING.
We need to control the electricity supply to robots at all times. Only humans should be able to switch the on/off button.
Bring the universal basic income and bring to prosperity funds. and give each person $1 million. Nesara. Gesara. St. Germain fund
LIGMAAA!
Get your head out of THE CLOUDS
I've been watching a lot of videos on AI. It's funny that most of the speakers are telling their audiences to remain docile and accept the fate of being replaced, because it is the next evolutionary step.
"We need to have a conversation about UBI"………….. Like, a LONG conversation. Then, EVERYONE, rich and poor, need to weigh in on it. Options disguised as progress, could exacerbate social inequality.
Come and join to our School of AI please!
best AI conference to date as far as i've seen
In my own country UBI is not even up for discussion. Instead they force people to look for jobs that don't exist and shuffle them around in the system to hide the unemployment. More and more money is invested in just creating nice statistics. They will continue with this stupidity as long as they can. I guess we get the politicans we deserve because the population isn't very smart either.
All those sci fi movies will becoming a reality.
How long before useless eaters are brought up and the AI decides it makes more sense to kill people off?
Just like all the other ones who do these TED talks about AI, they ignore the two very important truths. Does that make me smarter than all these people? One, when people are no longer needed, there will be no one and no money to pay them this massive Universal income that he talks about. All people will be poor except for the few rich ones who have control with AI and physical Force, vs hackers. No one talks about the hackers but all it takes is one single hacker to implement a powerful AI with a goal of disrupting the current control and the ability to adapt itself. Think about that. That is inevitable. Hackers contorting ai, and Universal all people major poor. There is no way that this can be a beautiful thing like they all say. If you have a mind try to think about this for a moment. We are not just doomed because we are afraid we are doomed but because this stuff is inevitable.
Skynet is coming
Great talk, massive forward-thinking insight, but he assumes that both science and countries are monolithic. Yes, the USA and Europe might create a measured set of rules to create the Universal General Intelligence. But will rouge states such as Iran, N.Korea, and Russia, follow that plan? No, I don't think so. Solution? We have to create two UGIs, one that is for general use in society, and one, highly contained in a secure lab with no connections to the outside world — then we can predict how the rouge states might try to attack us.
Eye ? is soul sucker.. money is medium
A I In many forms these days
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A DDICTive I nTOXICants
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just like in the 70s, today's AI researchers think (or act) like they know more than they really do. neural networks today are just glorified function/pattern matchers, maybe one step up from regression. the real power comes from the tremendous CPU speed advances. So you can train on millions of samples, and get a output function that does a passable job. but as another TED talk said, the neural network can make obvious mistakes because it really doesn't know what it's doing. for example, it classified images with dogs and snow in background as wolves, because it was just keying off the snow in background.
Have anyone play the game call Detroit
Universal Basic Income will destroy the discipline that separates man from apes. Men need to have a purpose in life. Work is an integral part of a man's character. Take that away and mankind will fall into chaos.
"In about a couple of decades??" Google's already shown it has an AI program called AlphaZero (A0) that "can achieve, tabula rasa, superhuman performance across many challenging domains," and that includes beating the best players in the world at ANY game, being armed only with the rules. Note: an axiom of game theory is that virtually every human activity is a game. Warfare, for example — just a game and some hardware.
We should all be terrified of A0. As a computer programmer, I submit it has bridged the gap between AI and AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). The existential threat to our species is here today. There are no laws or rules governing this research whatsoever! I sincerely believe our only prayer is that Google will have pity on the human race, and keep a few of us as pets for A0… A1… A10…
We have to build ideology into AI and that will be the biggest challenge. Obviously capitalism as we have lived through it is not self sustaining either for the human collective, AI or the planet. Where is Asimov or McLuhan when you need them.
FUTURE OF AI = Do whatever you want to do.