The presentation "Living with Big Mother - Smart Phones are Smart Agents of the future" of TEDx Leuven 2012.

1. Living with Big Mother!
your future with smart-phones agents
Presented by Filip Maertens!
at TEDx Leuven 2012

2. Me
Billie
ns (age 7)
Filip Maerte

3. With great power, comes great
responsibility
Every year we generate twice the
data than past 5.000 years together.
Most of it is noise!

4. With great power, comes great
responsibility
3M check-ins/day 250M photos/day 250M tweets/day
I don’t care! I don’t like! I don’t read!

5. 5,170,000,000 useless results
I’m not finding it!

6. The internet collective brain is huge!
How to process this ?!

7. neural impulses fiber optic
120 m/s 200,000,000 m/s!

8. We will continue to further outsource and offload some of our
cognitive capabilities to smart agents!

9. Bring me relevant information to me!
Let’s get personal!

10. Human
generated data
is unreliable!

11. We don’t look
beyond the
obvious

12. rich data = human data + observed data

13. “Hey, I’m at TEDx Leuven #tedx”
I Like TEDx on Facebook and use the #tedx tag on Twitter
Human
Machine
As a male + positioned at 50.881174,4.712276 + facing NE direction
+ ambient light of 37% + made 137 footsteps + 120 dB
I have visited TEDx events already 5 times, in 2 different countries, hereby
travelling 2.137 km in total distance

14. smart phone
or interconnected
sensory device!

15. Motion sensor
3-axis gyroscope
Accelerometer
Compass and GPS
Pressure sensor
Microphone
Proximity sensor
Ambient Light sensor
Moisture sensor!

16. Eyes = Camera and Light Sensor
Ears = Microphone and Decibel Meter
Speech = Speakers
Brain = CPU / GPU
Memory = Internet
Spinal Cord = Fiber optic / autonomous
Orientation = Compass and GPS
Equilibrium = Gyroscope
Movement = Accelerometer
Touch = Pressure Sensor

17. Eyes = Camera and Light Sensor
Ears = Microphone and Decibel Meter
Speech = Speakers
Brain = CPU / GPU
Memory = Internet
Spinal Cord = 3G/GPRS/Wi-Fi
Orientation = Compass and GPS
Equilibrium = Gyroscope
Movement = Accelerometer & Motion
Touch = Pressure Sensor
= Proximity Sensor (IR)

18. smart phones
will become the
primary cognitive
agent platform!

19. Playground 1: putting the ghost in the machine!
Machine Learning + Deep Data!

20. Some of our early findings:!
implicit social networks
vague search queries
determine sex
determine sleeping patterns
determine your job cohort
determine your marital loyalty
...

21. Playground 2: making your interaction easy!
Human-Machine Interfacing!

22. … still a lot of experimenting to go !!

23. Playground 3: living with a synthetic personality!
Develop the ego and super-ego!

24. “Hi, Dave. I couldn’t help but
notice that it’s your girlfriend’s
birthday next week, so I
booked her favorite restaurant
and ordered some flowers to
be delivered. I hope that’s
OK?”

25. First wave: Tag Based Affinity Networks + ISN!
Startups many investors like!
Second wave: Computerlinguistics, Deep data and ANN!
Startups many investors look for!

26. Challenges for early intelligent
agents:!
• Location-centric!
• Battery life!
• UX / UI!
• Sensory accuracy!
• Privacy regulations!

27. Cognitive agents will help transcend human limitations!
smart-phones are instrumental!
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28. Consumer cognitive agents will live on social networks!
smart-phones = panoptic devices!
Privacy?

29. Innovation
keyword-based search engines
Predictive inspiration machines!

30. big brother
big mother!

31. Say Hi to your virtual
agent and best friend
for years to come…!