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ai is coming and it's not just coming
it's going to take over and dominate us
Ellen musk recently called that our
biggest existential threat and Ray
Kurzweil predicts that in about a dozen
years artificial intelligence will be
routinely pass Turing tests making
computers indistinguishable from humans
Ray Kurzweil also predicts that in 2045
computers will be smarter faster more
creative more intelligent than us at the
time he calls the singularity so their
message is clear humans are about to
take second place in every interaction
with a yawn
I myself have devoted a large part of my
life to make computers more powerful and
more like us as engineer and biochemist
I'm using biological inspiration to
build large efficient data centers by
copying the brains dense micro channel
architecture and 3d system integration
we can replace the slowing Moore's law
allowing that computers can double their
performance every other year even in the
future so our brain inspired density
roadmap already has made computers ten
times more efficient and is about to
make them another ten thousand times
denser and more efficient in a matter of
twenty five years using techniques like
3d chip stacking and electronic blood
the approach how our brain supplies the
neurons with
energy we also built miniaturized
devices that are variable electronic
devices and helped us to lead a better
life these cognitive companions are
going to be miniaturized so that they
fit into our ear canal supporting us
with artificial intelligence everywhere
where we live
so with these industry-leading
accomplishments I should be the first
person to agree with reh quartz file
that artificial intelligence will soon
dominate us right but I don't for a very
good reason
so what records Lyle forgot is that
natural human intelligence can fight
back think about another area of Human
Performance fitness training you don't
have to be a professional athlete to
know that a little bit of training can
make you feel and perform better and
with a lot of training you can get
surprising results so with extensive
exercise you can improve your cardiac
output Eightfold your oxygen uptake even
25 fold and 10 fall gains are possible
in weightlifting and bodybuilding and
can qualify you as governor of
California
so can we trigger similar gains in human
cognitive performance as in fitness
clearly solving crossword puzzles and
Sudokus every now and then will not get
you there so but there is evidence that
Latin mathematics and music allow you to
think in a more structured way and we
clearly can exercise our brains similar
to workout for our body so this then
increases dopamine motivational state
and synaptic plasticity so in order to
increase your channel intelligence you
have to learn new things all the time
you have to read you have to teach your
GPS and pocket calculator you you have
to network with people play golf dance
do yoga and to do so lots of different
things but the message here is the more
you train the more you gain and
increased cognitive performance from
training in one specific field can be
transferred to an other field so so that
you can increase your cognitive
performance in this other field as well
so this is called transfer learning
transfer learning is a technique that is
known in machine learning when a system
has been trained in one field and is
then applied in another field
so while transfer learning is a known
concept in machine learning it has not
been knowingly applied to increase our
own cognitive intelligence now it's
really mind-boggling how we made
unbelievable strides in computers and
how our fitness improved but so far we
have done nothing for our own brains
with respect to race singularity this
means we have given up the fight before
it even started
and we allow the singularity before it's
even here
so while we have invested thirty billion
dollars in AI in 2016 alone and built up
an eighty five billion dollar global
fitness industry we have done nothing
for our own brains so no wonder that
people start fearing the singularity so
what if we could increase our own
cognitive performance by practicing a
very specific field and transferring the
benefit what if we could build a large
industry around transfer learning and
teach this technique as part of
workshopped
brain fitness centers or even later in
schools so our brains could profit so
much to my opinion even much more than
we profited from the fitness training
and with this gain we can make sure that
artificial intelligence cannot dominate
us right so I am strongly convinced
because I experienced such an effect
myself so separate from my engineering
work I practice a very specific field
there speed of thinking and reaction is
important and my practice also requires
me to memorize lots of complex patterns
and to be creative all the time I've
practiced this field for more than 30
years and experienced such an effect of
transfer learning back to my research
work of building better computers so in
other words the more I practice this
other field the more the better I am in
my job and speed is a very important
concept so it allows you to do more
things in less time and get optimization
results machines use that like deep-blue
alphago watson neuromorphic and quantum
computers why should human brains not
use it so if speed training worked out
so spectacularly well for me
it could work out for all of you as well
right
so what the heck was it it is something
that clearly no computer could do
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