Transcript Lydia`s Slides - School of Computing

Intelligence Augmentation
- for discussion in reading group on
Monday 8 June 09
Dr Lydia Lau
School of Computing
University of Leeds
UK
Who & what (i)
• Came across IA from Gerhard Fischer (Colorado)’s work
“Rethinking and reinventing Artificial Intelligence from the
perspective of human-centered computational artifacts”, 1995.
• An update from his talk on “Meta-Design: Putting Owners of
Problems in Charge”, July 2006.
– AI vs IA : See slides 3 & 4
– Angle : Co-evolution as a meta-design approach for IA : see slides
16,19,20,21,39
– In particular “Seeding, Evolutionary Growth, Reseeding (SER) Model” :
slide 43
– For AWESOME (see slide 51)
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Who and what (ii)
• Pattie Maes (MIT Media Lab)
http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0
264.html (2001)
– Angle: using software agents
– Vision for IA: “…as a result that one individual can be super-intelligent,
so it's more about making people more intelligent and allowing people
to be able to deal with more stuff, more problems, more tasks, more
information. Rather than copying ourselves, …”
• Bradley Rhodes (MIT then a company)
– A seminar given at Stanford...
– Angle: Software agents / JIT info retrieval agents / wearable computers/
augmented reality
– Challenges for IA : slides 28, 34-37
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Who and what (iii)
• Douglas Engelbart (Stanford Research Institute)
http://bootstrap.org/augdocs/friedewald030402/augmentinghu
manintellect/ahi62index.html (1962)
– Angle: AUGMENTING HUMAN INTELLECT - A Conceptual Framework
– “By ‘augmenting human intellect’ we mean increasing the capability of a
man to approach a complex problem situation, to gain comprehension
to suit his particular needs, and to derive solutions to problems. … by
"complex situations" we include the professional problems of diplomats,
executives, social scientists, life scientists, physical scientists,
attorneys, designers … We refer to a way of life in an integrated domain
where hunches, cut-and-try, intangibles, and the human "feel for a
situation" usefully co-exist with powerful concepts, streamlined
terminology and notation, sophisticated methods, and high-powered
electronic aids.”
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Englebart - continue
• Proposed framework examined the following structure types
– Mental structuring
– Concept structuring
– Symbol structuring
– Process structuring
– Physical structuring
• (LL : compare with these labels
– Cognition
– Ontology
– Language (NLP …)
– Practices
– IT )
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Relevance to my work
• Goals unchanged but the means to achieve them are different!
• Common vision: extending human intelligence, not replacing it.
• Using groups and communities for enhancement – collective
intelligence (processes/data/roles)
– E-science example
– E-learning example
• Technologies
– Social computing & semantics
• Design approach
– ethnographic / scenarios / meta-design?
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