Intelligence Augmentation- for discussion in reading group onMonday 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/art0264.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, 34-378 Jan 09 IA - reading group discussion 3

Who and what (iii)

• Douglas Engelbart (Stanford Research Institute) http://bootstrap.org/augdocs/friedewald030402/augmentinghumanintellect/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 )

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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