Hybrid Intelligence: First Rate Humans, Not Second Class Robots • Jacob Sherson • GOTO 2021

This presentation was recorded at GOTOpia February 2021. #GOTOcon #GOTOpia http://gotopia.eu Jacob Sherson - Founding Director of Center for Hybrid Intelligence and ScienceAtHome.org, Prof. MSO dep. of Management, Physics and Cognitive Science at Aarhus University ABSTRACT In light of the recent deep learning driven success of AI in both corporate and social life there has been a growing fear of human displacement and a related call to develop IA (intelligence augmentation) rather than pure AI. In reality, most current AI applications have a significant human-in-the-loop (HITL) component and is therefore arguably more IA than AI already. From here, there are currently two trends in the field. In one, increasing machine autonomy is pursued, first by placing the human-on-the-loop (to verify the result of the machine computation) and then by hoping to take the human completely out of the loop (as in the pursuit of artificial general intelligence). Two main challenges of this approach are a) the value-alignment problem (how do we ensure that the machine satisfies human preferences when we often cannot even express or agree on these ourselves) and b) the extensive human deskilling that often accompanies algorithmic advances. In my talk, I will discuss how these two challenges may potentially be overcome by the second trend: the pursuit of human-machine hybrid intelligence (HI), in which the two interact synergeticaly and continually learn from each other. I will describe the outcome of a recent round table series that we have hosted with leading scholars from AI and cognitive science and corporate representatives such as Microsoft and IBM Watson. I will give examples of how we may transition from HITL to HI in fields ranging from image recognition and manipulation, air traffic control and AI-assisted product design [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 02:29 Example of hope for a HI future, image analysis 05:52 Agenda 06:00 AI - the long-term perspective 18:04 Is AI as powerful as we think? 22:49 Hybrid intelligence 33:12 The language of AI - search in a landscape 36:10 How humans think 42:21 The social science super collider 43:58 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotopia.eu/february-2021/sessions/1690/hybrid-intelligence-first-rate-humans-not-second-class-robots https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #AI #ML #DataScience #IBMWatson #HITL #HumanInTheLoop #HybridIntelligence #Singularity #RL #ReinforcementLearning Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1