1.
Preparing Our Next Generation
for the Second Machine Age
DeeChee – The Robot Who Learns Language Like a Human Child

2.
Computers anno 1950

3.
Two Books

4.
How Humans learn:
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Adaptive and Flexible
Thinking

5.
Learning by Problem Solving and Contexts
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6.
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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

7.
Embodiment and sensory input
“Physical experience
is the Foundation of
Knowledge”
~Jonathan Mugan

8.
Moore’s Law vs. Moravec’s paradox

9.
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

10.
Capitalism in
The Second
Machine Age
“Freemiums”
Premiums Ubiquity

11.
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?