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Augmenting Human Communication with Cutting-Edge Technology Millions of people with neurological conditions, such as cerebral palsy or ALS, are physically prevented from producing natural human speech. They are intelligent and socially aware, and want to fully participate in a social world, but largely depend on caregivers to interpret grunts and or gestures in response to…
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Our Tech Infrastructure Is Undermining Our Collective Intelligence. Here’s What We Can Do About It. Tom met Tristan Harris at the annual TED conference in 2017. Both were preparing for their first main-stage TED talk, rehearsing and honing their presentations on the speakers’ floor of the conference hotel. That week Tom introduced the idea of…
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A Selfie a Day Keeps the Doctor (a Phone Call) Away A healthcare revolution was already happening before the pandemic. The old way was the occasional visit to the doctor’s office or hospital, with expensive point measurement, and treatment responses optimized for populations. The new way is continuous measurement of many channels of data about…
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Music that Adapts to the Journeys of Your Life For most of history, humans have experienced music as live, ephemeral, and in the moment, joining composition and performance in the improvisational dynamic between musician and audience. Today, the dominant experience of music is something else: static songs that are written, recorded, packaged, and streamed to…
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Knowledge-Based Communication Prosthesis: Enabling Speech for Every Human Over a half billion people worldwide have physical or cognitive impairments that prevent them from natural human speech. For example, many people with neurological conditions such as cerebral palsy or ALS can see and hear fine and are fully social — but cannot generate speech. They depend…
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From Siri to AI Agents and Beyond: Navigating the Near Future with AI
AI is accelerating history at unprecedented speed. Drawing on 40 years of experience, Gruber traces the journey from the Web to ChatGPT and beyond. He explores AI’s evolution, capabilities, limitations, and transformative potential for humanity.
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AI, Big Data, and Humanity in 2024: Our new relationship with AI
The latest AI models based on planetary scale LLMs with intelligent interfaces such as ChatGPT are changing our relationship with AI. This presentation is an excellent overview of the latest models, what makes them possible, how they are created, what they are great at, what to be careful with, and the exciting applications that they…
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What AI and Big Data Can Do for Humanity
In this keynote, Tom shares his insights into the power and potential of big data and AI, with examples of how things can go wrong — and the potential for doing things right. He reveals the role of AI within social media platforms and details how its misuse has led to over-optimization for profit and…
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A Guiding Philosophy for Artificial Intelligence Entrepreneurs and Investors
In this talk, Tom reviews key projects in his career and offers the principals on which they were chosen and factors that led to success. He describes a key insight he learned from inventor Doug Engelbart, the formulation of a guiding philosophy, which can help entrepreneurs, researchers, and investors make decisions in their careers.
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Intelligence at the Interface: The Virtual Assistant Paradigm for Human Computer Interaction
BayCHI is the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction. This talk explores the virtual assistant metaphor as an interaction paradigm, like mouse-and-menu or multi-touch. What does it enable? Who does it empower? What are the drivers of usability and utility? What makes it work and where can…
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