Dylan Schmorrow talks About Augmented Cognition

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From DARPA's previous work to the developments at Soar Technology, Dylan Schmorrow recently discussed how augmented cognition technology could be used for intelligence amplification in crisis situations and in everyday life.

Former DARPA Project Manager, Dylan Schmorrow recently presented a TEDx Talk (above), where he discussed the idea and potential for augmented cognition.  

Augmented cognition is also known as intelligence amplification (IA)  and machine augmented intelligence.  It refers to the effective use of information technology in augmenting human intelligence. The idea was first proposed in the 1950s and 1960s by cybernetics and early computer pioneers.

Augmented cognition is sometimes contrasted with AI (artificial intelligence), the project of building a human-like intelligence in the form of an autonomous technological systems.

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AI has encountered many fundamental obstacles, practical as well as theoretical, which for IA seem moot, as it needs technology merely as an extra support for an autonomous intelligence that has already proven to function.

IA has a long history of success, since all forms of information technology, from the abacus to writing to the Internet, have been developed basically to extend the information processing capabilities of the human mind (see extended mind and distributed cognition).

Schmorrow is the Chief Scientist at Soar Technology where his team is leading the advancement and application of artificial intelligence technologies in order to make people more prepared, more informed and more capable.

According to the Soar Technology website:

Our work is rooted in cognitive science, a deep understanding of human perception, memory, performance, learning, and emotion. To this we add a careful an­alysis of domain knowledge, built into our systems so they work the way people work. 

Schmorrow holds a doctorate in Experimental Psychology from Western Michigan University, as well as Masters Degrees in Operations Research, Psychology, Modeling and Simulation, and Philosophy. He recently retired as an U.S. Navy Captain after 20 years of service leading numerous information technology, medical, and human performance science and technology programs that transformed promising technologies into operational military capabilities and transitioned prototypes to operational use.

The video below features Shmorrow's DARPA work for the AUG COG program, in a hypothetical future situation.




SOURCE  TEDx Talks

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