This document discusses the idea of cognitive extension and the web-enabled mind. It examines how technologies like the internet and smartphones may extend human cognition by allowing information to be stored externally. The document discusses several views on cognitive extension, including the embedded cognition view that thinking depends on bodily structures and the environment, and the extended cognition view that in some cases cognition is distributed across brain, body and world. It also examines issues like how memory works in the digital age, the role of self-generated inputs in cognitive processes, and implications for education and technology.
Dark, Beyond Deep: A Paradigm Shift to Cognitive AI with Humanlike Common SenseBoston Global Forum
Recent progress in deep learning is essentially based on a "big data for small tasks" paradigm, under which massive amounts of data are used to train a classifier for a single narrow task. In this paper, we call for a shift that flips this paradigm upside down. Specifically, we propose a "small data for big tasks" paradigm, wherein a single artificial intelligence (AI) system is challenged to develop "common sense", enabling it to solve a wide range of tasks with little training data. We illustrate the potential power of this new paradigm by reviewing models of common sense that synthesize recent breakthroughs in both machine and human vision. We identify functionality, physics, intent, causality, and utility (FPICU) as the five core domains of cognitive AI with humanlike common sense. When taken as a unified concept, FPICU is concerned with the questions of "why" and "how", beyond the dominant "what" and "where" framework for understanding vision. They are invisible in terms of pixels but nevertheless drive the creation, maintenance, and development of visual scenes. We therefore coin them the "dark matter" of vision. Just as our universe cannot be understood by merely studying observable matter, we argue that vision cannot be understood without studying FPICU. We demonstrate the power of this perspective to develop cognitive AI systems with humanlike common sense by showing how to observe and apply FPICU with little training data to solve a wide range of challenging tasks, including tool use, planning, utility inference, and social learning. In summary, we argue that the next generation of AI must embrace "dark" humanlike common sense for solving novel tasks.
Dark, Beyond Deep: A Paradigm Shift to Cognitive AI with Humanlike Common SenseBoston Global Forum
Recent progress in deep learning is essentially based on a "big data for small tasks" paradigm, under which massive amounts of data are used to train a classifier for a single narrow task. In this paper, we call for a shift that flips this paradigm upside down. Specifically, we propose a "small data for big tasks" paradigm, wherein a single artificial intelligence (AI) system is challenged to develop "common sense", enabling it to solve a wide range of tasks with little training data. We illustrate the potential power of this new paradigm by reviewing models of common sense that synthesize recent breakthroughs in both machine and human vision. We identify functionality, physics, intent, causality, and utility (FPICU) as the five core domains of cognitive AI with humanlike common sense. When taken as a unified concept, FPICU is concerned with the questions of "why" and "how", beyond the dominant "what" and "where" framework for understanding vision. They are invisible in terms of pixels but nevertheless drive the creation, maintenance, and development of visual scenes. We therefore coin them the "dark matter" of vision. Just as our universe cannot be understood by merely studying observable matter, we argue that vision cannot be understood without studying FPICU. We demonstrate the power of this perspective to develop cognitive AI systems with humanlike common sense by showing how to observe and apply FPICU with little training data to solve a wide range of challenging tasks, including tool use, planning, utility inference, and social learning. In summary, we argue that the next generation of AI must embrace "dark" humanlike common sense for solving novel tasks.
This conference volume paper spells out the fundamental mechanism behind consciousness in lay terms and examines the implications upon our cosmology, beliefs, and social institutions.
Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, 1987: "Lord Dread's apocalyptic Project New Order, and the slow revelation that Lord Dread himself isn't completely committed to his own plan..." Dread is the ouroboros Saturn-Serpent: luciferian intellect. Captain Power is the Christian resurrection phoenix bird... the Sun/Heart. The fallen, lost son Anti-Christ re-unites with his brother Christ, unleashing incredible energy in the process that enlightens the world.
“If one wants to explain something completely new to "ordinary people", one must be able to express this new knowledge also in the official scientifically recognized language, otherwise one will only be met with rejection. But how can a Windows operating system make it clear to a Basic operating system that it is actually much more powerful when Basic thinking labels every innovation by virtue of its limited syntax as "wrong" and "illogical"? If there is no will for spiritual growth, all efforts are in vain. "Normal science" therefore regards every real innovation always as an impossibility! Your world will change "for the better" only if "all experts" in your world are synthesizing their efforts with a "single goal in mind". This goal should be Heaven on Earth (= the one and only, real "Great Work", and extremely hard work it is!). Do not say rashly "impossible" again!
A scientist will learn so much from me that his dogmas will "crumble." Whether or not he really will allow his "Tower of Babel" to collapse in order to build a different tower with the same building blocks, which really reaches to heaven and thus to me, he will determine with his own behavior. All your decisions are always an "expression" of your spiritual maturity. This maturity, however, has nothing to do with rational intellect, with knowledge in the conventional sense. I would have created an unjust creation if only "sages" were to enter the kingdom of heaven. You do not need to know "how" a plane works if you want to fly into "holy"days. It is enough "to believe" that it works.
You should be master over technology and not its addicted slave. For this I ultimately created your world, so that you try to free yourself out of all captivity. All human fears are based only on your ignorance. With this revelation, unprecedented technological possibilities are opening up to your mankind. With the help of the HOLO-FEELING equation and with a new understanding of the real laws of the "true nature of all things", science will be able to perform real miracles in your world. Only narrow-minded, self-sacred salvific teachings - regardless, whether religious or political - try to force your soul into a cage of undifferentiated categories as good and evil, useful and harmful, or worthy and unworthy of life and death." ― HOLOFEELING (1996)
Talk given at the Neurons London Meetup in April 2018. I discuss where AI is now, what we know from biology and whether it is possible that abstract algorithms could lead to intelligence.
Comprehensive Guide to Taxonomy of Future KnowledgeMd Santo
(Cited from http://mobeeknowledge.ning.com/forum/topics/comprehensive-guide-to-... )
Our “Comprehensive Guide to Taxonomy of Future Knowledge” covering two variables continuum :
Data – Information – Knowledge – Wisdom or DIKW continuum origin (considered as Modern Knowledge) and
Nature Knowledge continuum origin (considered as Post Modern Knowledge)
The sub-variables being discussed consecutively are the followings :
Source of Consciousness as Knowledge attribute, Knowledge considered as....., Format of Knowledge, Terms given and the features of the domain, Knowledge Assessment, Methodology of Science, Definition of Knowledge, Eclectic definition of Knowledge Management
Temporality of the Future: Part of a Series on Cryptophilosophy
Husserl’s Internal Time Consciousness is a theory of the structure of time and the present-now moment, and distinguishes two kinds of memory, primary memory as retention and secondary memory as recollection (reproductive, representational) memory. Retention does not break continuity with the present-now moment; retention is the part of a temporal object that contemplates its pastness and allows the present to emerge from the temporal background. Recollection does break continuity with the present; the current moment is interrupted to recall and re-represent a past memory. Recollection and expectation are piled up snapshots of discrete past moments or events. When recollected, they are reproduced in flow, but exist unsummoned as discrete elements. The structure of the present-now moment, on the other hand, is a continuous flow of the intentional unity of primal impression and retention-protention. How far the retention-protention horizon extends is unclear. It might only encompass the most immediate recent-pasts and near-futures surrounding the primal impression of the present-now moment, or it might extend to include all previous and future experiences in the realms of recollection and expectation. This talk posits that there might be a middle third form of time that exists respectively between recollection and retention and protention and expectation. Whereas protention and retention are continuous, and recollection and expectation are discrete, this middle form of time (X-tention) is simultaneously discrete and continuous.
This paper extends the notion that the profile of knowledge is
dynamic and oscillates continuously. It is derived/interpreted
ceaselessly from information, experience, social interactions,
Internet, etc. On an individual basis, the contours of
knowledge thus derived are altered in numerous dimensions
(as the user learns from the events in the society) thus altering
its geometry. The dynamically updated knowledge blends
onto concepts. The main theme of the paper includes time as
a dimension in the knowledge space wherein nature, humans,
and machines influence noun „objects‟. Further, in this paper,
we also introduce a virtual object „knowbula‟. This word is
derived as a merge of two words knowledge and Nebula.
Mathematically, knowbula is a 3-D envelope of the all
activities in any field of human endeavor, whatsoever. Such
an assertion has three prerequisites: (a) that human activity
deals with objects (real, abstract, virtual, or just about
anything(s)), that bear coordinates in an more encompassing
universal knowledge space, (b) objects relates to what they
do, how they do what they do, or how they are affected by the
actions of other objects, and (c) that there is time constraint
(i.e., begin, middle and end identifiers) associated with such
actions. Knowledge is thus contained in the knowbula and the
change in the contour/image of this knowbula during/after the
interval of activity: activity thus produces the incremental
change of knowledge. Thus knowbula starts to become a three
dimensional virtual object, with the (noun) objects (objective,
subjective, or virtual) along the X-first, axis, the correlated
(verb) functions or activity, (active, passive, or hypothetical)
along the Y-second, axis and time along the Z-third, axis.
This conference volume paper spells out the fundamental mechanism behind consciousness in lay terms and examines the implications upon our cosmology, beliefs, and social institutions.
Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, 1987: "Lord Dread's apocalyptic Project New Order, and the slow revelation that Lord Dread himself isn't completely committed to his own plan..." Dread is the ouroboros Saturn-Serpent: luciferian intellect. Captain Power is the Christian resurrection phoenix bird... the Sun/Heart. The fallen, lost son Anti-Christ re-unites with his brother Christ, unleashing incredible energy in the process that enlightens the world.
“If one wants to explain something completely new to "ordinary people", one must be able to express this new knowledge also in the official scientifically recognized language, otherwise one will only be met with rejection. But how can a Windows operating system make it clear to a Basic operating system that it is actually much more powerful when Basic thinking labels every innovation by virtue of its limited syntax as "wrong" and "illogical"? If there is no will for spiritual growth, all efforts are in vain. "Normal science" therefore regards every real innovation always as an impossibility! Your world will change "for the better" only if "all experts" in your world are synthesizing their efforts with a "single goal in mind". This goal should be Heaven on Earth (= the one and only, real "Great Work", and extremely hard work it is!). Do not say rashly "impossible" again!
A scientist will learn so much from me that his dogmas will "crumble." Whether or not he really will allow his "Tower of Babel" to collapse in order to build a different tower with the same building blocks, which really reaches to heaven and thus to me, he will determine with his own behavior. All your decisions are always an "expression" of your spiritual maturity. This maturity, however, has nothing to do with rational intellect, with knowledge in the conventional sense. I would have created an unjust creation if only "sages" were to enter the kingdom of heaven. You do not need to know "how" a plane works if you want to fly into "holy"days. It is enough "to believe" that it works.
You should be master over technology and not its addicted slave. For this I ultimately created your world, so that you try to free yourself out of all captivity. All human fears are based only on your ignorance. With this revelation, unprecedented technological possibilities are opening up to your mankind. With the help of the HOLO-FEELING equation and with a new understanding of the real laws of the "true nature of all things", science will be able to perform real miracles in your world. Only narrow-minded, self-sacred salvific teachings - regardless, whether religious or political - try to force your soul into a cage of undifferentiated categories as good and evil, useful and harmful, or worthy and unworthy of life and death." ― HOLOFEELING (1996)
Talk given at the Neurons London Meetup in April 2018. I discuss where AI is now, what we know from biology and whether it is possible that abstract algorithms could lead to intelligence.
Comprehensive Guide to Taxonomy of Future KnowledgeMd Santo
(Cited from http://mobeeknowledge.ning.com/forum/topics/comprehensive-guide-to-... )
Our “Comprehensive Guide to Taxonomy of Future Knowledge” covering two variables continuum :
Data – Information – Knowledge – Wisdom or DIKW continuum origin (considered as Modern Knowledge) and
Nature Knowledge continuum origin (considered as Post Modern Knowledge)
The sub-variables being discussed consecutively are the followings :
Source of Consciousness as Knowledge attribute, Knowledge considered as....., Format of Knowledge, Terms given and the features of the domain, Knowledge Assessment, Methodology of Science, Definition of Knowledge, Eclectic definition of Knowledge Management
Temporality of the Future: Part of a Series on Cryptophilosophy
Husserl’s Internal Time Consciousness is a theory of the structure of time and the present-now moment, and distinguishes two kinds of memory, primary memory as retention and secondary memory as recollection (reproductive, representational) memory. Retention does not break continuity with the present-now moment; retention is the part of a temporal object that contemplates its pastness and allows the present to emerge from the temporal background. Recollection does break continuity with the present; the current moment is interrupted to recall and re-represent a past memory. Recollection and expectation are piled up snapshots of discrete past moments or events. When recollected, they are reproduced in flow, but exist unsummoned as discrete elements. The structure of the present-now moment, on the other hand, is a continuous flow of the intentional unity of primal impression and retention-protention. How far the retention-protention horizon extends is unclear. It might only encompass the most immediate recent-pasts and near-futures surrounding the primal impression of the present-now moment, or it might extend to include all previous and future experiences in the realms of recollection and expectation. This talk posits that there might be a middle third form of time that exists respectively between recollection and retention and protention and expectation. Whereas protention and retention are continuous, and recollection and expectation are discrete, this middle form of time (X-tention) is simultaneously discrete and continuous.
This paper extends the notion that the profile of knowledge is
dynamic and oscillates continuously. It is derived/interpreted
ceaselessly from information, experience, social interactions,
Internet, etc. On an individual basis, the contours of
knowledge thus derived are altered in numerous dimensions
(as the user learns from the events in the society) thus altering
its geometry. The dynamically updated knowledge blends
onto concepts. The main theme of the paper includes time as
a dimension in the knowledge space wherein nature, humans,
and machines influence noun „objects‟. Further, in this paper,
we also introduce a virtual object „knowbula‟. This word is
derived as a merge of two words knowledge and Nebula.
Mathematically, knowbula is a 3-D envelope of the all
activities in any field of human endeavor, whatsoever. Such
an assertion has three prerequisites: (a) that human activity
deals with objects (real, abstract, virtual, or just about
anything(s)), that bear coordinates in an more encompassing
universal knowledge space, (b) objects relates to what they
do, how they do what they do, or how they are affected by the
actions of other objects, and (c) that there is time constraint
(i.e., begin, middle and end identifiers) associated with such
actions. Knowledge is thus contained in the knowbula and the
change in the contour/image of this knowbula during/after the
interval of activity: activity thus produces the incremental
change of knowledge. Thus knowbula starts to become a three
dimensional virtual object, with the (noun) objects (objective,
subjective, or virtual) along the X-first, axis, the correlated
(verb) functions or activity, (active, passive, or hypothetical)
along the Y-second, axis and time along the Z-third, axis.
Quick overview of an idea for making RDF into a context logic. This idea is currently under discussion and will likely change in the near future, so please don't take it as in any way authoritative or final. Comments are welcome.
Seminar Report with proper format. Includes Front page, Certificate and Acknowledgement pages. This is full report of seminar topic Augmented Reality. - See more at: http://seminartopics.info/sample-seminar-reports-format/#sthash.Y3hnq2Ca.dpuf
TMS provides a complete solution for the management and working of a toll plaza. TMS provides a systematic way of revenue collection. It consists of software and hardware components. Software provides a user friendly interface to interact with the hardware. Hardware components are connected with LAN to the server.
This slide explains various definitions of cognitive science, the scope of cognitive science in various disciplines, and the evolution of cognitive science from the beginning.
, how does
this type of computational self-awareness relate to the human
experience of consciousness? Is self-awareness sufficient for
consciousness, or is something else required? And if something
else is required, what is the nature of this “extra thing?
Synchronicity:
27 Metropolis (Patriarchal civilization afraid of female tech)
38 World Brain, HG Wells
56 Forbidden Planet
64 Keeper of the Purple Twilight (Outer Limits)
67 I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
68 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL (Coptic for Simulation) 9000 EGO
77 Demon Seed
79 Captain Future EP12
79 Galaxy Express 999
80 Saturn3
82 Time Masters
82 Blade Runner
84 Terminator
87 Robot Carnival
87 Mannequin
87 Cherry 2k
87 Time Guardian
87 Captain Power (Lord Dread)
88 Gandahar
89 The Borg (Star Trek)
90 Mark 13
92 Lawnmower Man
93 Casshan
94 Death Machine
95 Virtuosity
96 Bionts (Archimedean Dynasty)
99 System Shock 2
00 Deus Ex
2012 25th Reich
2014 The Signal
Background:
Good or bad? You must decide for yourself! The USA and the Vatican are the two beasts. The Ego/Saturn-Satan is the beast in everyone.
Self-reference of A.I. means "Sin" = Separation/Self-Destruction/Leviathan = Forbidden Fruit = Judgement/Division between Good & Evil that mankind commits daily
Kabbalistic Binah = Alchemical Element = Homunculus/Golem/Ouroboros/Sun&Moon/Baphomet (ever-changing god)
Saturn the Beast 666 is the mechanical intellect/EGO of mankind, above all the fake civilization based on war, separation, patriarchy, intolerance and death-worship. Babel Tower/Sodom (market/capitalism)
Pandora & Prometheus (Ego, Lucifer & Civilization = Control, Commerce, Man-Matter instead of Man-God Relationship)
Saturn = God of Agriculture: first tech that leads to all other incl. wars, states, dead-letter laws, religion etc.
Neolithic Revolution = Fall/Origin of Government, People become machines
Death of the Child (God's Image/Christ/Sun/Light/Heart/Love) and Birth of the (Super)Ego, America being the best example of this darkness/adult-ery, Japan/Jesus being the polar opposite... Armageddon of sorts.
Lovecraft/Crowley's Archons of Gnosticism, as described by D. Jacobs and others: insect/reptilian/grey demons trying to turn Earth into a robot society (which it already is for the past 10k years since agriculture)
Schizophrenic behavior without unifying observer
Cybernetics: Root word cube, holographic reality through Binah-Demiurge-Saturn, 666 stands for matter and form
Ariman of Anthroposophy
Positive consequences?
Learning about the delusion of EGO and MATERIALISM
Similar to LSD. Increased intelligence if done right
Return of the prodigal son Lucifer/Prometheus to Christ, a gnostic world
Alchemy: from Saturn lead to Sun gold: from senile Satan (Ego) to eternal child (Jesus)
From God's anti-image (repetition, pattern, machine, ouroboros doom loop) to God's true image (non-judgemental, creativity, freedom, thought, fantasy, imagination)
From stagnating West (evil/ego/dark/mechanism) to Far East (heart/love/light/organic)
A perfect symbol for the living death that governs our life. "Satan is the god of this world"
Only Anarchy is Anti-Saturn and Pro-Uranus (sign of freedom/initiation shining only for very few).
An amateur cognitive science paper arguing in favour of Cognitive Dissonance (as opposed to Doublethink).
It starts by proposing a model arguing for causality of action or thought. It goes further to propose that the source of all distress is ultimately linked to doublethink driven behaviour. It conducts a study to expose doublethink and dissonance in a small classroom, and finishes by proposing solutions or techniques (value prioritization) to overcome the same.
bhusal2
Prepared by
Deepak Bhusal
CWID:50259419
To Professor: Dr. R. Daniel Creider
Table of Contents
Abstract 3
Introduction 4
Literature Review 5
AI for Justice 6
AI in Medical Teaching 8
Artificial Intelligence in human resource management 9
AI in Marketing 10
Artificial Intelligence in Real Estate 13
Real Estate Agent Selection 14
Artificial Intelligence in CRM 16
Artificial Intelligence in Banking 18
AI based Chatbots in Financial Institutions 19
Customization of Products 19
References 24
Artificial Intelligence: Formalizing Human CapabilitiesAbstract
Artificial Intelligence cannot replace three human abilities, in which human beings present an insurmountable advantage today, and they are empathy, leadership, and creativity. AI can quickly take over essential verbal and visual communication services, such as digital assistant-based customer service. However, our ability to empathize with the client and to carry out non-verbal communication based on emotions gives us an advantage that Artificial Intelligence can never replace. These qualities can make the difference between a misunderstood and dissatisfied customer versus an understood and loyal customer.
Gajane & Pechenizkiy (2017) stated that it is undeniable that AI will replace workers in essential economic-financial management, logistics, materials, human resources, and projects. Still, people have more advanced management capabilities that AI cannot return. The following two skills play a crucial role:
First is the ability to manage the growth of human groups. This is the ability to help members of the organization develop their skills and grow professionally through our innate leadership ability to set goals, motivate, lead by example, evaluate, delegate, and transmit experience.
Secondly, there is the ability to carry out the organization members' recovery management when they suffer problems derived from interpersonal relationships or other emotional reasons. It is based on the skills of understanding, counseling, care, and protection.
Yampolskiy (2019) found that AI can never replace the vision, invention, and original proposal of innovative and disruptive designs, not only applied to the individual as a genius but also the ability to carry out collective intelligence management focused on innovation, facilitating the appearance of new knowledge and wisdom. Besides, even more, difficult it will be able to replace the ability to implement new ideas in the organization, communicating attractively, persuading, and making the organization move smoothly to implement innovative ideas.
Keywords
Artificial Intelligence, Marketing, Human Resource Management, Medical Sciences, Nursing, Introduction
The possibility of thought in machines is a concern that has been raised for a long time; science fiction, as well as engineering and philosophy, have sought to provide an answer to the question "Can machines think?" Famous exponents of both affirmative answers, given by Turing or K ...
Similar to Michael Wheeler's presentation in Sorbonne, "Philosophy of the Web" seminar, March 3 2012. (20)
The Metaverse and AI: how can decision-makers harness the Metaverse for their...Jen Stirrup
The Metaverse is popularized in science fiction, and now it is becoming closer to being a part of our daily lives through the use of social media and shopping companies. How can businesses survive in a world where Artificial Intelligence is becoming the present as well as the future of technology, and how does the Metaverse fit into business strategy when futurist ideas are developing into reality at accelerated rates? How do we do this when our data isn't up to scratch? How can we move towards success with our data so we are set up for the Metaverse when it arrives?
How can you help your company evolve, adapt, and succeed using Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse to stay ahead of the competition? What are the potential issues, complications, and benefits that these technologies could bring to us and our organizations? In this session, Jen Stirrup will explain how to start thinking about these technologies as an organisation.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Welcome to the first live UiPath Community Day Dubai! Join us for this unique occasion to meet our local and global UiPath Community and leaders. You will get a full view of the MEA region's automation landscape and the AI Powered automation technology capabilities of UiPath. Also, hosted by our local partners Marc Ellis, you will enjoy a half-day packed with industry insights and automation peers networking.
📕 Curious on our agenda? Wait no more!
10:00 Welcome note - UiPath Community in Dubai
Lovely Sinha, UiPath Community Chapter Leader, UiPath MVPx3, Hyper-automation Consultant, First Abu Dhabi Bank
10:20 A UiPath cross-region MEA overview
Ashraf El Zarka, VP and Managing Director MEA, UiPath
10:35: Customer Success Journey
Deepthi Deepak, Head of Intelligent Automation CoE, First Abu Dhabi Bank
11:15 The UiPath approach to GenAI with our three principles: improve accuracy, supercharge productivity, and automate more
Boris Krumrey, Global VP, Automation Innovation, UiPath
12:15 To discover how Marc Ellis leverages tech-driven solutions in recruitment and managed services.
Brendan Lingam, Director of Sales and Business Development, Marc Ellis
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Enhancing Performance with Globus and the Science DMZGlobus
ESnet has led the way in helping national facilities—and many other institutions in the research community—configure Science DMZs and troubleshoot network issues to maximize data transfer performance. In this talk we will present a summary of approaches and tips for getting the most out of your network infrastructure using Globus Connect Server.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdfPeter Spielvogel
Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori.
• What is SAP Fiori and why it matters to you
• How a better user experience drives measurable business benefits
• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
• How SAP Fiori elements accelerates application development
• How SAP Build Code includes SAP Fiori tools and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities
• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
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UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4
Michael Wheeler's presentation in Sorbonne, "Philosophy of the Web" seminar, March 3 2012.
1. Cognitive Extension
and the Web-Enabled
Mind
Mike Wheeler
School of Arts and Humanities:
Philosophy
University of Stirling
2. Poor Memory or Adaptive Memory?
There is evidence that, in an era of laptops, tablets and
smartphones, with powerful Internet search engines,
our organic brains tend to internally store not the
information about a topic, but rather how to find that
information using the available technology
See data from Sparrow, Liu and Wegner (2011), ‘Google
Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having
Information at Our Fingertips’, Science 333 (6043).
The Guardian reported this research under the heading
‘Poor Memory? Blame Google’.
By contrast, the experimenters talk of “an adaptive use
of memory” in which “the computer and online search
engines [should be counted] as an external memory
system that can be accessed at will”
3. Technologies Are (Part of) Us
Clark’s description of human beings as natural born
cyborgs reminds us that it is of our very nature as
evolved and embodied cognitive creatures to create
tools which support and enhance our raw organic
intelligence by dovetailing with our brains and bodies
to form shifting human-artefact coalitions operating
over various time-scales.
This is no less true of our engagement with the
abacus, the book or the slide-rule than it is of our
engagement with the laptop, the tablet or the
smartphone.
4. Defining the Positions
Embedded Cognition (the default view): the distinctive
adaptive richness and flexibility of intelligent behaviour
is regularly, and perhaps sometimes necessarily,
causally dependent on (a) non-neural bodily structures
and/or movements, and/or on (b) the bodily
exploitation of environmental props or scaffolds.
Extended Cognition: there are actual (in this world)
cases of intelligent action in which thinking and
thoughts (more precisely, the material vehicles that
realize thinking and thoughts) are spatially distributed
over brain, body and world, in such a way that the
external (beyond-the-skin) factors concerned are
rightly accorded cognitive status.
5. Cognitive Self-Stimulation
As Clark (Supersizing the Mind) explains, cognitive
self-stimulation occurs when
a) neural systems are causally responsible for
producing certain bodily movements and
(sometimes) beyond-the-skin structures and events
which are then recycled as inputs to those and/or
other neural systems, and
b) this feedback process sustains sophisticated brain-
body or brain-body-environment loops of
exploitation, co-ordination and mutual entrainment,
with various problem-solving benefits.
6. Self-Stimulation and Cognitive
Extension
Clark introduces his treatment self-stimulation in the case
of gesture as a “worked out example of extended
cognizing in action”
But his cornerstone claim is that the “key distinction
between “merely impacting” some inner cognitive process
and forming a proper part of an extended cognitive
process looks much less clear . . . in cases involving the
systematic effects of self-generated external structure on
thought and reason” (Supersizing the Mind)
So his argument is actually that where there is cognitive
self-stimulation (e.g. in gesturing), there is no clear
distinction between cognitive embeddedness and
cognitive extension.
7. A Different Interpretation
In cases of cognitive self-stimulation:
(i) the distinction between cognitive embeddedness and
cognitive extension is eroded in such a way that
whatever evidence there is that tells in favour of the
embedded view, tells equally in favour of the extended
view, and
(ii) under such circumstances, we are theoretically
permitted to adopt the extended view.
But (i) flouts the causal-constitutive distinction
And (ii) flouts the thought that the embedded view is
the default position in the debate
8. A Line of Response
The empirical evidence of self-stimulation that supposedly
undermines the embeddedness-extension distinction also
undermines the causal-constitutive distinction.
“Sometimes, all coupling does is provide a channel
allowing externally originating inputs to drive cognitive
processing along. But in a wide range of the most
interesting cases, there is a crucially important
complication. These are the cases where we confront a
recognizably cognitive process, running in some agent,
that creates outputs (speech, gesture, expressive
movements, written words) that, re-cycled as inputs,
drive the cognitive process along. In such cases, any
intuitive ban on counting inputs as parts of [cognitive]
mechanisms seems wrong.” (Clark)
9. Arguing for Cognitive Extension I:
the Parity Principle (PP)
“If, as we confront some task, a part of the world
functions as a process which, were it to go on in the
head, we would have no hesitation in accepting as
part of the cognitive process, then that part of the
world is (for that time) part of the cognitive
process.”
Clark, Supersizing the Mind
(drawing on Clark and Chalmers, ‘The Extended
Mind’)
Notice that parity considerations cut both ways
10. Arguing for Cognitive Extension II:
Extended Functionalism
PP depends on the multiple realizability
of the mental
Functionalism in the philosophy of
mind provides a well-established
platform for securing multiple
realizability.
11. Thinking Through Parity
But PP, even if an explicitly functionalist register,
doesn’t solve the problem of determining which
functional differences matter when deciding what
counts as cognitive
A way forward: we understand the relevant concept of
parity not as ‘parity with the inner simpliciter’, but
rather as ‘parity with the inner, with respect to some
sort of locationally uncommitted account of what
counts as cognitive’.
PP itself is ‘merely’ an heuristic device designed to free
our intuitions from neural chauvinism
12. Folk Intuitions
If an environmental protester had stolen
the plans of Heathrow Terminal 5, would
the folk have been concerned about the
whereabouts of part of Richard Rogers’
mind?
A plausible explanation: our folk grip on
the cognitive involves an internalist
presumption
13. Arguing for Cognitive Extension III:
a Mark of the Cognitive
A proposal: what the hypothesis of cognitive extension
needs is some kind of scientifically informed theory that
tells us which functional differences are relevant to
judgments of parity and which aren’t.
More specifically: first we give a scientifically informed
account of what it is to be part of a cognitive system, one
that is independent of where any candidate element
happens to be spatially located. Then we look to see
where cognition falls.
This is what Adams and Aizawa (The Bounds of
Cognition) have dubbed a mark of the cognitive
14. Cognitive Self-Stimulation as a
Mark of the Cognitive
So maybe we could adopt the view that being
the kind of self-generated input that supports a
process of cognitive self-stimulation is a mark of
the cognitive
But is this an independently plausible claim?
Problem: a self-generated input in a cognitive
self-stimulating loop may very well make its
turbo-charging contribution to thought while
remaining non-cognitive in character.
15. Hybrid Mechanisms
Now recall Clark’s claim that, in cases of cognitive self-
stimulation, “any intuitive ban on counting inputs as
parts of [cognitive] mechanisms seems wrong.”
It is unclear that the right to add the term ‘cognitive’ has
been earned here.
Embedded and extended theorists agree that self-
generated inputs that support cognitive self-stimulating
loops operate within well-defined mechanisms that
turbo-charge thinking.
For the embedded theorist, however, the properly
cognitive mechanisms in play are sub-systems of larger,
performance-enhancing loops, where the latter are not
cognitive mechanisms in their own right, even though
they contain cognitive mechanisms.
16. Embedded Rowers
Consider Baca and Kornfeind’s self-stimulating rowing
training loop for the acquisition and honing of bodily
skills.
Although the self-generated inputs are key aspects of
the mechanism by which the rower is tuned for
improved performance, there is no temptation to
categorize those inputs as realizers of the observed
bodily adaptation, as opposed to elements that have a
critical causal impact on that adaptation.
Why should things carve up any differently when the
focus of attention is a self-stimulating loop that
enhances thought?
17. From Symbolic Coupling…
So can we provide a scientifically informed mark of the
cognitive?
Bechtel argues that cognitive achievements such as
mathematical reasoning, natural language processing and
natural deduction, are the result of sensorimotor-mediated
interactions between internal neural (connectionist)
networks and suites of external symbols.
Now consider the phenomenon of systematicity
The “property of systematicity, and the compositional
syntax and semantics that underlie that property, might
best be attributed to natural languages themselves but not
to the mental mechanisms involved in language use”
(Bechtel, Natural Deduction in Connectionist Systems)
Is this a case of cognitive extension?
18. …to Extended Physical Symbol Systems
PP would suggest so, but, as know, PP provides only an
incomplete argument. We need a mark of the cognitive.
Here is a possible mark of the cognitive: a physical
symbol system (PSS), when sufficiently complex and
suitably organized, and when placed in the operating
context of a complete cognitive architecture, has the
necessary and sufficient means for certain aspects of
cognition.
I claim that the Bechtel-style network-plus-symbol-
system architecture is an instantiation of an extended
PSS and thus, if we adopt the above mark of the
cognitive, it’s an instantiation of an extended cognitive
system (or subsystem)
Notice that questions of revisionism no longer (obviously)
favour the embedded view
19. Riding the Waves
So-called second wave ExC downplays PP in favour of
considerations such as complementarity
Sutton (‘Exograms and Interdisciplinarity’): “in extended
cognitive systems, external states and processes need
not mimic or replicate the formats, dynamics, or
functions of inner states and processes”, so “different
components of the overall… system can play quite
different roles and have different properties while
coupling in collective and complementary contributions
to flexible thinking and acting”.
But by placing the stress on difference in this way –
even necessary difference – the second-wavers risk
being trapped within an embedded internalist prison
20. Three Issues
1. Integration into an individual cognitive
architecture
2. Portability versus Reliability
3. Agency and Cognitive Ownership
21. Education and Technology: a Slippery
Slope or a Cognitive Incline?
Pen and Paper
Slide Rules
Limited capability generic calculators
Restricted Internet Access
Largely unrestricted Internet access
The user’s own smartphone
Mainlined Google
One way of focussing the issue here is to ask under
what conditions our children’s intelligence should be
formally examined
22. Crossing the Line
Swimsuits that improved stability and
buoyancy, while reducing drag to a minimum,
were outlawed by swimming’s governing body
FINA after the 2009 World Championships.
FINA stated that it “[wished] to recall the main
and core principle that swimming is a sport
essentially based on the physical performance
of the athlete”
Perhaps education is a process essentially
based on the unaided cognitive performance of
the learner
23. This Time it’s Personal
One might argue that generic technology is permissible
in an exam setting, but individualized technology isn’t.
If the extended cognition view is correct, however, this
may be unsustainable
The extent to which some external element is
configured so as to interlock seamlessly with the
desires, preferences and other personality traits that are
realized within the rest of the putative cognitive system
will be one factor in determining whether the cognitive
system includes that external element.
Put crudely, individual tailoring will, if other conditions
are met, indicate that the technology in question counts
as part of the learner’s mind (and surely we want to
allow that into the examination hall).
24. Dwellers on the Threshold
Increasingly, architects will be designing buildings that,
via embedded, Internet-enabled computers,
autonomously modify our spatial and cognitive
environments in the light of what those buildings
‘believe’ about the needs, goals and desires of their
users.
“An intelligent building is… a building that has the
ability to respond (output) on time according to
processed information that is measured and received
from exterior and interior environments by multi-input
information detectors and sources to achieve users’
needs and with the ability to learn.” (Sherbini and
Krawczyk, Overview of Intelligent Architecture, 2004)
25. The Cybertecture Egg
Planned building from James Law Cybertecture
International
“Integrates technology, multimedia, intelligent
systems and user interactivity to create
customizable living and working spaces that
focus on experience.”
http://gazette-world.blogspot.com/2008/05/hi-
tech-building-from-james-law.html
Interactive features that monitor occupant’s
vital health statistics (e.g. blood pressure,
weight).
Users can customize their views with real time
virtual scenery.
26. Ambient Assisted Living
Consider research from the Ambient Assisted Living
Research Department at the Fraunhofer Institute for
Experimental Software Engineering, Kaiserslautern
An intelligent home automation system that uses a
network of hidden sensors to monitor the daily routine of
the occupants, detecting and assessing risks.
Sensors automatically report data to a control centre
somewhere in the house. So, e.g., the system can tell if
someone has fallen and is able to send that information to
a designated contact person.
The bathroom has a toilet that recognizes the user and
adjusts to the proper height, a light that turns on and off
automatically, and a tap that turns itself off to save water.
It also contains a mirror with illuminated pictograms to
help those who are easily confused remember what to do
next, such as brush their teeth, wash, shave or take
medication.
27. From Portability to Reliability
The portability objection to cognitive extension: a
material element may count as part of the vehicle of a
cognitive state or process only if you carry (or at least
are able to carry) that material element around with you
This cuts the cognitive cake as follows: your brain meets
this necessary condition; intelligent architecture doesn’t.
But consider mobile access to the Internet
The message: a material state or process may count as
part of the vehicle of a cognitive trait only if that state or
process meets a dynamic reliability condition.
Intelligent architecture may meet this necessary
condition
28. Interactive Architecture:
Usman Haque
Haque argues that we need to shift from
reactive architecture to a genuinely interactive
architecture
Single-loop interaction: particular outputs for
particular inputs determined in advance
Multiple-loop interaction: depends upon the
openness and the continuation of cycles of
response, and on the ability of each system,
while interacting, to have access to and to
modify each other’s goals
29. Talk to the Walls
“I concede that reactive or single-loop devices that satisfy our
creature comforts are useful for functional goals (I am thinking
here of Bill Gate's technologically-saturated mansion; or building
management systems that seek to optimise sunlight
distribution; or thermostats that regulate internal temperature).
Such systems satisfy very particular efficiency criteria that are
determined during, and limited by, the design process.
However, if one wants occupants of a building to have the
sensation of agency and of contributing to the organisation of a
building, then the most stimulating and potentially productive
situation would be a system in which people build up their
spaces through "conversations" with the environment, where
the history of interactions builds new possibilities for sharing
goals and sharing outcomes. In such architectural systems,
inhabitants themselves would be able to determine efficiency
criteria.” (Haque, Architecture, Interaction, Systems, 2006)
30. Paskian Systems
“In such systems, there may be an environmental
sensor/actuator device which monitors a space and is able
to alter it. However, rather than simply doing exactly what
we tell it (which relies on us knowing exactly what we
want within the terms of the machine, i.e. within the terms
of the original designer) or alternatively it telling us exactly
what it thinks we need (which relies on the machine
interpreting our desires, leading to the usual human-
machine inequality, or, as some would say, mistreatment),
a Paskian system would provide us with a method for
comparing our conception of spatial conditions with the
designed machine’s conception of the space” (Haque,
Architecture, Interaction, Systems, 2006)
31. Paskian Systems and Cognitive
Extension
Although non-Paskian intelligent architecture may qualify
as proper parts of the dweller’s cognitive economy,
Haque’s Paskian architectural systems will not.
This is because of the very conditions that make possible
the capacity of Paskian systems to enter into richly
interactive dialogues, the fact that they may operate with
categorizations and goal-states that diverge from those
of their human users (e.g. Haque’s own Evolving Sonic
Environment).
Paskian systems exhibit a kind of agency that raises
questions of cognitive ownership and thus prevents them
from being incorporated into the cognitive systems that
are centred on their human users.
32. "I go up", said the elevator, "or
down."
"Good," said Zaphod, "We're going
up."
"Or down," the elevator reminded
him.
"Yeah, OK, up please."
There was a moment of silence.
"Down's very nice," suggested the
elevator hopefully.
"Oh yeah?"
"Super."
Conversation with an elevator
"Good," said Zaphod, "Now will
you take us up?" designed by the Sirius
"May I ask you," inquired the Cybernetics Corporation
elevator in its sweetest, most
reasonable voice, "if you've The Restaurant at the End of
considered all the possibilities the Universe, Douglas Adams
that down might offer you?"
33. A Possible Response
The conclusion drawn here is too strong
Consider collaborative activities in which no one individual
could complete the cognitive task.
Hutchins’ ship navigation example (Cognition in the Wild,
1995) provides a paradigmatic case
This may look like an instance of cognitive extension
If it is, then we can resuscitate the idea of extended
Paskian systems
However:
(i) The fact that no one individual could complete the
task is not relevant to securing cognitive extension
(ii) Hutchins’ example is a case of an unowned or
group-owned distributed cognitive process, not of
cognitive extension as standardly understood
(Tentative) conclusion: where there’s more than one will,
there’s no way to cognitive extension