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Founder & Executive Producer at TV prodco The Connected Set | AI evangelist

Reflecting on a great weekend at TEDAI in Vienna. Too much for one LinkedIn post so cherry-picking some highlights: ⌨ Chin-Teng Lin showing wearable tech that can read the words and images you’re THINKING! Will brain computer interfaces make keyboards a thing of past? 🌐 Selena Deckelmann of Wikipedia advocating companies building AI learn from the transparency adopted by Wikipedians. 📜 Digital archaeologists showing how they used pattern analysis to read and decode what was written in unrolled fossilised scrolls. AI isn’t just changing the future - it’s changing the past! ✍ Victor Riparbelli suggesting our grandchildren could be the last generation to read or write as attention spans drop and AI automates video and audio generation. Maybe the written word isn’t morally superior to audio and video? But what about allowing our imagination to fill in the gaps? Discuss! 🎮 Microsoft’s Katja Hofmann showing an AI model trained on 8 years of user gaming data that can help gaming companies test new creative ideas in games, showing AI CAN augment creativity, 🤔 Lots of arguments about regulation hurting small companies, the merits of open-source models v walled gardens, and the negative real-world consequences of unchecked AI like: > Equity (85% of LLMs are based on Latin languages, AI recruitment tools that select candidates based on traits that correlate with gender, ethnicity etc) > Environment (depending on the platform used, 0.5 Litres of water are used to power 10-50 LLM responses!) > And a powerful talk by Northern Irish MLA Cara Hunter on how she was deep faked into a porn video in an attempt to subvert her re-election. 🍃 Raia Hadsell of Google DeepMind encouraging us to think beyond the hype of chatbots to how AI will solve the unknown, from weather forecasting to earth models. 🤦♂️ Psychologist Riccardo Loconte on the process of creating an AI lie detector with 80% accuracy, and the implications for trust. 🧠 Oliver Brock on how we tend to use the word ‘intelligence’ indiscriminately, and how the next AI paradigm shift will be active networks, not trained networks. 🤖 An argument by Andrea Lavazza that we should be considering robotic digital successors to continue human civilisation in case of an extinction event. 🌏 Linked to that, Jürgen Schmidhuber on how 2029 will be the year when general purpose robots finally reach the mainstream, and that the world ends as we know it in 2042 as humanity passes the mantle to AI (which expands throughout the universe without the limitations of human biology). Maybe tongue in cheek, maybe not!? 🎤 Oh, and a truly hilarious session by British comic and freestyle rapper Chris Turner in a rap battle against ChatGPT (spoiler: Chris won hands down). I remain a firm techno-optimist from this event- it seems right now for every harm AI poses there are at least 5 applications of AI that improve the world we live in. This AI revolution is truly unstoppable. #AI #TED #TechForGood TEDAI Vienna

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Sam Barcroft

Founder, Creatorville | Penymoor Farm

3w

Love this Jason! Sounds like a brilliant conference and I’m sure it will deepen your understanding and network.

Thanks for sharing your insights!

I would love to have seen the rap battle. But a little nervous on the first innovation you mention since I think unmentionable thoughts on the tube! All very interesting though, can't wait to hear more. You are truly becoming a specialist!

Wolfgang Link

Produzent, Berater, Moderator Producer, Consultant, Host

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Where are you? People waiting for you, here in Cannes!! 😊

John Eastman

Australian Actor and Voiceover with @Anothertongue, Soho

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Victor Riparbelli's suggestion is truly horrifying. I would argue the written word (if written by a human) IS morally superior to audio and video- if you mean AI generated. If our attention spans drop, it will spell disaster. Sorry I know you remain an optomist, but I would argue that AI is an enemy of the imagination... Yes I know there are a huge range of advantages to AI tech. But creatives in their respective industries need to fight to protect their work. #voiceover

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Thanks for the great summary. I think the BCI will co-exist with keyboard for a long period. In fact, we can foresee their cooperation in some ways. 😀

James Carson

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Love the history innovation in this Jason Mitchell - the past is opening up

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