Preparing Our Next Generation for the Second Machine Age

DeeChee – The Robot Who Learns Language Like a Human Child

Computers anno 1950

Two Books

How Humans learn:

Concept Individuation

ModelTesting

ModelBuilding

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Adaptive and Flexible Thinking

Learning by Problem Solving and Contexts

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I’m hungry. Wish I had a cookie. Makes me think of Grandma. It was

Christmas last time I was there. A big icicle hung from the gutter. I did a

science experiment with icicles

once. The teacher had funny glasses.

P(MΙD) = P (DΙM)P(M)/P(D)

How to Appreciate Human Intelligence:

“try to build artificial intelligence embodied in computer architecture”

~ Jonathan Mugan

Embodiment and sensory input

“Physical experience is the Foundation of Knowledge” ~Jonathan Mugan

Moore’s Law vs. Moravec’s paradox

Threats in the Second Machine Age

• Automating more sophisticated jobs• Consumption reflects digital re-production

rather than human labor input• Removing barriers to competition:

“winner takes all” (globalization)

Bounty

Spread

Capitalism in The Second

Machine Age

“Freemiums”

Premiums Ubiquity

Beyond Blue Collar/White Collar?

Can you automate Mom? Putting a price on care-taking jobs that provide “human touch”.

Creative professions are (still) hard to replicate by

robots, but subject to “long tails” and

economies of scale.

Will we generate enough green jobs to save our

jobs and our environment?