The 1st lecture-review after participating in Singularity University Executive Program

1. Intro to
Exponentials
Bayram Annakov, App in the Air

3. 0
300
600
900
1200
26x times around Earth

4. Vinod Khosla vs McKinsey

5. 4 processes

6. I. Digitise
Dream recording machine - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQueU9a8URw

7. II. Disrupt
3d printing house - http://3dprint.com/82322/chinese-3d-modular-homes/

8. Why?
zero friction to move/copy
zero marginal cost
apply computation
correlation
machine learning
modeling
simulation

9. Solar energy
Poorest countries = sunniest
countries —> how that would change
political & economic scene?
In 2016 solar energy cheaper than
electricity in US

10. III. Demonetize

11. IV. Democratize

12. Bioinformatics

13. Faster than Moore’s

14. 3 components
Reading - DNA sequencing
Writing - Genetical Engineering
Hack - Democratisation of tool

15. Reading

16. Reading

17. Minion

18. MinION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UHw22hBpAk

19. Writing

20. Synthetic biology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD5uNAMbDaQ

21. Biohacking

22. BioCurious
http://biocurious.org/

23. Transcendence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCTen3-B8GU

24. Impact on our
industries?

25. Artificial
Intelligence

26. Agenda
What is AI?
What is already accomplished
What is under the hood
Applications
Implications
Action items & recommendations

27. What is AI?
Pattern recognition
to
Solve practical problems

28. DeepMind Tech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1eYniJ0Rnk

29. 3 myths
You cant just sprinkle a little bit of AI
Garbage In - Garbage Out (you have to clean &
shape data before using it)
Smart algorithms are not the same as human
level intelligence or sentience
—> start with the problem, not AI algorithm.
Framing the problem is THE important step

30. AI comes with
tradeoffs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4y8YAMPFhk

31. Ex Machina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYGzRB4Pnq8

32. Imitation Game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5CjKEFb-sM

33. AI
Symbols - computer are very good at
Perceptions - just become good at
Concepts - just starting —> why? —>
cant make decisions without data,
need to have mechanical models
about reality

34. Where we are
Vicarious —> next generation AI
algorithm that passed Captcha test
Future states of cow —> AI imagination
Human brain had no upgrade for 50K
years
Siri & Google Now - long way to
understand our intentions & wishes

35. Books
Race against the machine
Kasparov - How life imitates chess
AI changes balance of power —>
Radical abundance by Drexler
Abundance by Diamandis

36. Recommendations
Crowdsource
Utilize
Use publicly available tools
AI platforms (Google, Watson, Amazon,
Microsoft)
Rethinking business processes

37. Notes from Q&A
What excites most? —> AI drives us
to evidence based decision making
AI needs data!

38. Impact on our
industries?

39. http://
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