How AI can enhance our memory, work and social lives | Tom Gruber

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🗓️ 7 August 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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How smart can our machines make us? Tom Gruber, co-creator of Siri, wants to make "humanistic AI" that augments and collaborates with us instead of competing with (or replacing) us. He shares his vision for a future where AI helps us achieve superhuman performance in perception, creativity and cognitive function -- from turbocharging our design skills to helping us remember everything we've ever read and the name of everyone we've ever met. "We are in the middle of a renaissance in AI," Gruber says. "Every time a machine gets smarter, we get smarter."

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features AI developer Tom Gruber, recorded live at TED 2017.
0:07.0	I'm here to offer you a new way to think about my field, artificial intelligence.
0:14.0	I think the purpose of AI is to empower humans with machine intelligence.
0:20.0	And as machines get smarter, we get smarter.
0:25.6	I call this humanistic AI.
0:28.6	Artificial intelligence designed to meet human needs
0:31.6	by collaborating and augmenting people.
0:35.6	Now, today I'm happy to see that the idea of an intelligent assistant is mainstream.
0:41.3	It's the well-accepted metaphor for the interface between humans and AI.
0:47.3	And the one I help create is called Siri.
0:50.3	Now, you know Siri.
0:52.3	Siri's the thing that knows your intent and helps you do it for you.
0:57.0	It helps you get things done.
0:58.0	But what you might not know is that we design Siri as humanistic AI
1:03.0	to augment people with a conversational interface
1:07.0	that made it possible for them to use mobile computing,
1:10.0	regardless of who they were and their abilities.
1:14.6	Now, for most of us, the impact of this technology
1:19.0	is to make things a little bit easier to use.
1:22.0	But for my friend Daniel,
1:24.7	the impact of the AI in these systems is a life-changer.
1:29.3	You see, Daniel is really social guy,
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