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IBM Watson presents Soul Machines, LENDIT Conference 2017 (Professional Camera)

Shantenu Agarwal from IBM Watson introduces “Rachel” Avatar from Soul Machines, on stage at the LendIt Conference in New York City 2017. Human-like Avatars with personality and character. Powered by Watson Artificial Intelligence in conjunction with Soul Machines Emotional Intelligence. She can see you and hear you, as well as being emotionally responsive and receptive. Human-like Avatars with character and personality. Emotional Cognition creating the link between humans and computers; humanising technology

Link: IBM Watson presents Soul Machines, LENDIT Conference 2017 (Professional Camera)

Sam Harris – Free Will

By: The Inspiration Journey
Source: http://bit.ly/2aqNa7O

Losing a belief in free will has not made me a fatalist – in fact, it has increased my feelings of freedom. My hopes, fears, and neuroses seem less personal and indelible. There is no telling how much I might change in the future. Just as one wouldn’t draw a lasting conclusion about oneself on the basis of a brief experience of indigestion, one needn’t do so on a basis of how one has thought or behaved for vast stretches of time in the past. A creative change of inputs to the system – learning new skills, forming new relationships, adopting new habits of attention – may radically transform one’s life. Becoming sensitive to the background causes of one’s thoughts and feelings can -paradoxically- allow for greater creative control over one’s life. This understanding reveals you to be a biochemical puppet, of course, but it also allows you to grab hold of one of your strings.

Sam Harris

 

The paradox of choice

Ik heb deze TED talk van Barry Schwartz uit 2005 wel eens eerder gezien en gedeeld via sociale media maar nu ook even op het blog. Is zo de moeite waard.

Het gaat over de hoeveelheid keuzes die we simultaan kunnen maken en in hoeverre dit goed is en werkelijk vrijheid en geluk oplevert. Barry geeft aan dat dit wel eens vies tegen kan vallen.

We all know what’s good about it, so I’m going to talk about what’s bad about it. All of this choice has two effects, two negative effects on people. One effect, paradoxically, is that it produces paralysis rather than liberation. With so many options to choose from, people find it very difficult to choose at all…

…The second effect is that, even if we manage to overcome the paralysis and make a choice, we end up less satisfied with the result of the choice than we would be if we had fewer options to choose from.

Sociale Kaart 2005

Een update verzorgt voor drukwerk waar uiteindelijk een foutje in was geslopen. Stom, mijn verantwoordelijkheid. Nu alles voorzien van een nette stikker. Monnikenwerk, maar blij dat het op deze manier kan worden opgelost in plaats van een herdruk.